US Gov't Considers New Vote-by-Phone Plan Story Here Archive |
CIO Magazine 19 October 2005 Casting a vote may soon be as easy as checking voice mail for some voters. The Department of Defense is considering a new vote-by-phone technology for military and overseas voters, according to a DOD spokesperson.
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US Embassy in Venezuela revokes visa of Smartmatic owner Story Here Archive |
VCrisis 16 October 2005 Antonio Mujica, CEO of Smartmatic, got very upset Friday morning whilst trying to renew his US tourist visa. The entrepreneur waited a good while before being called by a US Embassy's consular official, who informed him that his visa had not been approved. Mujica, very crossed, requested, in English, explanations as to the reasons for it. He argued that he was legal, that he had an important company in the USA and that he had to travel with urgency to that country.
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Law firm picked to handle voting equipment issue (Johnson Co., IN) Story Here Archive |
The Indianapolis Star 18 October 2005 Franklin An Indianapolis law firm will represent Johnson County in any action that might be taken against a voting equipment company.
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County supervisors to consider purchase of new voting system (Santa Cruz Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
BRIAN SEALS Santa Cruz Sentinel 18 October 2005 Purchase of a new voting system to help the county meet federal mandates regarding disabled voters is on the agenda today before the Board of Supervisors.
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Election costs to rise next year (Albany Co., NY) Story Here Archive |
JORDAN CARLEO-EVANGELIST The Albany Times Union 18 October 2005 ALBANY Ask Guilderland Supervisor Kenneth Runion about sticker shock and he'll tell you about the price of democracy in Albany County next year.
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Delay may prevent public's input on voting machines (Madison Co., NY) Story Here Archive |
ANDREW BROWN Oneida Dispatch 18 October 2005 WAMPSVILLE - Because of delays by the federal government, Madison County voters may not get the chance to voice their opinions about the future of the county's voting system before it is replaced next year.
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St. Charles County group calls for paper ballots, hand counting (MO) Story Here Archive |
Mark Schlinkmann ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 17 October 2005 St. Charles County group calls for paper ballots, hand counting.
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Ballots are far from cast (New York) Story Here Archive |
JAMES M. ODATO, Albany Times-Union 16 October 2005 Robert Witco, sporting a business suit, conservative tie and wing tips, fires into his sales pitch for replacing New York's old lever voting machines with elections equipment never before seen in America.
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Election officials talk about new equipment (Pensacola, FL) Story Here Archive |
Angela Fail PensacolaNewsJournal 16 October 2005 New voting equipment and mail-in ballots were the prominent concerns Saturday at a League of Women Voters' public forum.
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Diebold critics keep up protest of voting machine pick (Ohio) Story Here Archive |
Julie Carr Smyth Cleveland Plain Dealer 16 October 2005 With less than a month to go before another general election, a determined core of protesters refuses to relent on the perceived risks of Diebold Election Systems' voting machines.
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Upgrade could speed up voting (Floyd Co., GA) Story Here Archive |
Rome News-Tribune 17 October 2005 Voters at the polls should get their ballots much more quickly with the latest upgrade in Georgia?s election technology.
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Voting method to lower errors (Adams Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
JOSHUA STEWART York Daily Record 16 October 2005 Adams County is putting in place a voting system intended to help reduce voter error, but the new system will not be in effect until the May 2006 primary.
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Local counties waiting for voting machine certification (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
KELLY MONITZ MSNBC 16 October 2005 Carbon, Luzerne and Schuylkill counties shopped for new electronic voting machines, but they're not quite ready to buy yet. Out of the dozens of machines county officials looked at, only one has been certified for use in the state, they said.
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Paper trail could safeguard Wis. electronic voting system (Wisconsin) Story Here Archive |
Brittany Jones The Daily Cardinal 14 October 2005 State legislators presented a bill that would amend Wisconsin's electronic voting system to the Committee on Campaigns and Elections Thursday.
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Voters getting touch-screen machines (Warren Co., NJ) Story Here Archive |
SARA LEITCH The Express-Times 14 October 2005 Warren County freeholders voted unanimously Wednesday to buy 200 electronic touch-screen voting machines by the end of the year from a Princeton-based company.
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Commission approves touch screen voting machines (Jackson Co., WV) Story Here Archive |
Cara Cooper Parkersburg News and Sentinel 14 October 2005 RIPLEY - The Jackson County Commission unanimously approved the switch from optical scan voting equipment to touch screen machines Thursday.
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Bethel election machines face strapping situation (Bethel, CT) Story Here Archive |
Marietta Homayonpour Danbury News Times 14 October 2005 BETHEL ? They're called straps but they're not made of leather or cloth. They are narrow, flat metal strips ranging from 3 to 6 inches long, and they are crucial to an accurate vote count.
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Commissioners choose touch screens for elections (Wood Co., WV) Story Here Archive |
Pamela Brust Parkersburg News and Sentinel 14 October 2005 PARKERSBURG - When Wood County voters go to the polls next year they will let their fingers do the talking, using touch screens instead of optical scan ballots.
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State meeting may reveal UniLect's intentions (North Carolina) Story Here Archive |
BEN HOGWOOD Carteret News-Times 14 October 2005 RALEIGH ? The county will gets its first opportunity to find out if UniLect, the manufacturer of the county?s voting system, plans on continuing business in North Carolina this Tuesday when the state holds a mandatory meeting for vendors who plan to respond to a request for proposals (RFP).
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Town tab for voting to double (Woodstock, NY) Story Here Archive |
Norma Jean Howland Kingston Daily Freeman 13 October 2005 WOODSTOCK - Town officials, like many their counterparts in the region, are grappling with the added cost of implementing the federal Help America Vote Act, which has doubled Woodstock's election budget for 2006.
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