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Merced County voters urged to ?get it on paper? (Merced Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
With the deadline for requesting an absentee ballot fast approaching, the California Voter Foundation is urging voters in nine electronic voting counties ? including Merced County in the Central Valley to "Get it on paper." |
Commissioners OK new electronic voting machines (Gregg Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
Gregg County commissioners on Thursday approved a contract that will take county voters into the electronic age. Beginning with next year's March primaries, all Gregg County-run balloting will be done on voting machines being purchased from Austin-based Hart Intercivic. The company's eSlate machines allow voters to cast their decisions without paper ballots. |
Is Arizona's Speaker of the House afraid of what might happen if the truth is learned Story Here Archive |
State Republican Senator Jack Harper's enraging a powerful legislator with his determined effort to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive vote-counting scandal at the Maricopa County Elections Department. |
Electronic voting comes with a price tag for county (Luzerne Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
Luzerne County's conversion to electronic voting in 2006 could cost taxpayers at least $1 million more than originally anticipated. |
City office workers test voting methods (MA) Story Here Archive |
WALTHAM City Clerk's office employees on Monday got their first look at a voting machine that could be adopted statewide in 2006. |
Hand counting is history in Nebraska elections Story Here Archive |
Each election night Sherman County Clerk Deb Mitteis waits patiently while 26 poll workers count almost 1,700 ballots. |
State to upgrade election equipment (Nebraska) Story Here Archive |
Nebraska will spend nearly $11 million for new election equipment to count ballots in the state?s 93 counties, Secretary of State John Gale said Tuesday. |
Optical-scan voting system OK'd (St. Charles Co., MO) Story Here Archive |
The St. Charles County Council on Monday signed off on a new optical-scan voting system that could be in use at polling places as soon as February |
A turn of the ballot (Tulare Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
Daniel Fearnside, 9, stepped up to the computer kiosk. After reading several instructions, he was able to cast ?votes? for several mock initiatives and candidates. It took him all but two minutes. |
New voting equipment to utilize paper ballots (Brown Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
Brown County voters will continue to vote by tried and true paper ballots in future elections, but technological and electronic additions are being made to the system. |
Nebraska Selects ES&S to Provide Statewide Optical Scan Voting System Story Here Archive |
OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale announced today that the state has chosen Nebraska-based Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) to implement a new statewide optical scan voting system. ES&S will implement the new voting system in each county throughout the state, totaling 93 counties. |
Hart InterCivic Introduces the Technologically Advanced and Federally Certified eScan Digital Ballot Imaging System for Precinct Voting Story Here Archive |
AUSTIN eScan's Digital Voting Technology is More Accurate and Secure than Optical Scanning Systems |
You Can Vote, But The Election?s Over Story Here Archive |
MONDAY?S CUYAHOGA COUNTY Board of Election forum at Myers University on electronic voting had all the trappings of a public hearing: an attentive panel, a podium and microphone for citizens to speak, video cameras and a court reporter. But what it didn?t offer ? a chance to influence the board ? weighed heavily on the minds of many in attendance. |
Smudge on ballot puts kink in vote-counting (Eagle Co., CO) Story Here Archive |
This is why they practice. During testing of the county?s voting equipment last week, Eagle County Clerk and Recorder Teak Simonton and her crew discovered a glitch. |
Nueces County unveils new voting machines (Nueces Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
CORPUS CHRISTI - This year's election marks the first time Nueces County is using a new federally mandated electronic voting machine. 6 News checked in with County Clerk Diana Barrera for a closer look at how these machines work. |
Pa. rejects Patriot voting system again (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
HARRISBURG, Pa. - For the second time this year, a touch-screen voting system used by three western Pennsylvania counties has failed to be certified by the state. |
GAO questions progress on e-voting standards Story Here Archive |
Questions about the security and accuracy of electronic voting systems are likely to continue into the 2006 national elections, because the U.S. government has not yet completed work on electronic voting guidelines, according to a new government report. |
NEW VOTING DEVICES NOT NECESSARY (Connecticut) Story Here Archive |
N. STONINGTON - The town's first man has joined Attorney General Richard Blumenthal in criticizing a federal decision that could force Connecticut to replace up to 3,300 lever-style voting machines before the 2006 election. |
New election system could cost Putnam voters $70,000 (Putnam Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
OTTAWA ? An elections board official in Putnam County expressed his frustration with the ?boneheads in Columbus? who mandated a new elections system that could cost the county $50,000 to $70,000. |
GAO Report Finds Flaws in Electronic Voting Story Here Archive |
Rep. Waxman led twelve members of Congress today in releasing a new GAO report that found security and reliability flaws in the electronic voting process. |
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