Touch-screen voters feel exposed (Farmington, UT) Story Here Archive |
Lori Buttars The Salt Lake Tribune 05 October 2005 FARMINGTON - Don't toss out those old voting booths just yet.
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About 285 SPLOST voters showed up but never cast ballot (Cobb Co., GA) Story Here Archive |
Kimberly Starks Marietta Daily Journal September 29, 2005 MARIETTA - About 285 voters showed up at the polls on Sept. 20 for Cobb's Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum but never cast a vote.
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Dems pursue Ohio election system overhaul Story Here Archive |
JOHN McCARTHY Associated Press 05 October 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Democrats pushing an overhaul of the election system in Ohio - the state that swung the White House race to President Bush last year - are hoping timing truly is everything.
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New voting machines OK'd by committees (Mobile Co., AL) Story Here Archive |
BILL BARROW Mobile Register 05 October 2005 MONTGOMERY Mobile County is one step closer to buying new voting machines to comply the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and other federal guidelines in time for next year's elections.
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Official: Voters shouldn?t fear new ballot system (Ector Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
Bill Modisett Odessa American 05 October 2005 What Ector County voters don?t want to do, Elections Administrator Sharon Wilson said, is show up at the polls Nov. 8 not knowing there?s a ?new kid on the block.? That new kid is the eSlate electronic voting system, she said, and while it shouldn?t be scary, some people could be unnerved by the change.
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Mandate to buy voting machines proving elusive (Chester Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
Nancy Petersen Philadelphia Inquirer 05 October 2005 With a federal deadline of Jan. 1 to buy a new voting system, the Chester County Commissioners are expected to appoint a task force tomorrow to check out what's available.
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Voting starts new era (Utah) Story Here Archive |
Kimberly Jahnke Ogden Standard-Examiner 04 October 2005 FARMINGTON Voters in today's primary election here will be the first in Utah to test new electronic voting machines.
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Elections director's ties to audit group questioned (King Co., WA) Story Here Archive |
Keith Irvin Seattle Times 04 October 2005 Some political activists claim The Election Center's audit of King County Elections is tainted by the nonprofit organization's ties to county Elections Director Dean Logan.
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E-voting experts call for revised security guidelines Story Here Archive |
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus October 3, 2005 A federally funded group of voting system experts called on the United States' Election Assistance Commission, which oversees the nation's state-run elections, to revamp its recommended process for evaluating the security of electronic voting devices.
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County election officials hear about equipment options (Wood Co., WV) Story Here Archive |
PAMELA BRUST The Parkersburgh Sentinel 04 October 2005 PARKERSBURG - Officials with Election Systems & Software answered questions and demonstrated Help America Vote Act-compliant election equipment Monday in an effort to assist local county officials in making a final decision by the Oct. 15 deadline.
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State's mistake sends some counties scrambling to fix ballots (Washington) Story Here Archive |
CURT WOODWARD Associated Press 04 October 2005 OLYMPIA, Wash. A mistake by state elections officials is prompting some counties to reprint thousands of ballots, driving workers and printers into overtime and testing a deadline for getting ballots to overseas voters.
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Don't standardize election systems (Colorado) Story Here Archive |
Opinion Rocky Mountain News 05 October 2005 There is no single voting system in use in Colorado, at least not yet, and that's probably a good thing.
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Warren Co. freeholders check out yet another new voting machine (New Jersey) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, September 29, 2005 SARA LEITCH The Express Times 29 September 2005 WHITE TWP. Warren County freeholders on Wednesday examined an electronic voting machine very different from the model the county board of elections recommended as its choice.
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County Discovers BI Ballot Counting Mistake (Kitsap Co., WA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, September 29, 2005 Rachel Pritchett Kitsap Sun 29 September 2005
It was the ghost of elections past. A jam in a Kitsap County ballot-counting machine on primary election day Sept. 20 caused an miscount of 203 ballots too many, all from Bainbridge Island, according to county Auditor Karen Flynn.
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November election results vulnerable to tampering (California) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, September 29, 2005 Tom Elias The Daily Breeze 29 September 2005 Skeptics began warning that vote counting might not be reliable in some parts of California this fall almost as soon as it became clear that plenty of counties will be using electronic voting machines made by Diebold Election Systems in the November special election.
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New voting machines more accessible to those with disabilities (St. Claire Co., IL) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, September 29, 2005 FALON MCCAIN Belleville News Democrat 29 September 2005 Independence for people with disabilities is the goal St. Clair County Clerk Bob Delaney is trying to reach by purchasing more-accessible voting machines.
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Voting machine options displayed (Cooperstown, NY) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, September 29, 2005 Tom Grace The Daily Star 29 September 2005 COOPERSTOWN ? A hundred or more people came to Cooperstown on Wednesday afternoon to see a demonstration of voting machines organized by the county?s Board of Elections.
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Voting machines near certification, but paper ballots to be used Nov. 8 (San Joaquin Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Roman Gokhman Lodi News 28 September 2005 Twelve paper jams and 21 screen freezes are the reasons why voters will once again use paper ballots during the Nov. 8 election.
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The Web: Internet voting still a long way off? Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, September 28, 2005 UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL 28 September 2005 CHICAGO Some of the recommendations to improve electronic voting technology made by the election reform commission headed by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker provide only "marginal" improvements in election security, but they do keep the concept of Internet voting alive for now, experts tell UPI's The Web.
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State to help pay for vote after machines decertified (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW 27 September 2005 The state will help Beaver, Greene and Mercer counties pay for their Nov. 8 municipal elections after it decertified their electronic voting machines.
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