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Electronic voting produces questions of reliability Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, September 18, 2005 Over the last 20 years, I?ve spent enough time with computers to conclude that (a) they?re really cool and (b) you can?t always trust ?em. |
Elections chief may consider hand counting, mail-in votes (Palm Beach Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, September 17, 2005 Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson isn't ruling out the possibility of tallying the county's 2006 ballots by hand or conducting the election entirely through the mail, even though both ideas appear to run afoul of state law. |
Mail-only election possible in Palm Beach County in 2006 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 16, 2005 Palm Beach County voters went from the infamous punch card ballots in 2000 to state-of-the-art, touch-screen voting machines in 2002. They might get an even more radical shift for 2006: an election conducted entirely by mail. |
Carbon gets voting machine grant (Carbon Co., CT) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 16, 2005 Two weeks after threatening not to buy new voting machines required under federal law, Carbon County officials have learned they received a grant to buy them. |
Shelby County voting machines could be seized (Tennessee) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 16, 2005 Nashville - State Republican Party Chairman Bob Davis today asked state Atty. Gen. Paul Summers to "seize all voting machines and voting records" in Shelby County's Senate District 29 race, which Democrat Ophelia Ford apparently won Thursday by 12 votes. |
76 voting machines requested (Cumberland Co., NJ) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 16, 2005 BRIDGETON When the county purchased 120 new voting machines earlier this year, they assumed it would be enough to meet the county's needs. |
County set on voting system (Kaufman Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 16, 2005 Kaufman County commissioners voted unanimously Monday to contract with Hart InterCivic voting system to provide new voting machines for the county. |
'Paper trail' for '06 ballot weighed (Palm Beach Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 16, 2005 Palm Beach County voters could use something other than paperless touch-screen voting machines in 2006, elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson suggested Thursday as a voting technology committee held its inaugural meeting. |
State may have to scrap voting machines (Connecticut) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 16, 2005 HARTFORD ? A new federal ruling could force Connecticut to replace all 3,300 of its mechanical lever voting machines by November 2006, but state officials warned Thursday such a move could cause mass confusion. |
ES&S ed as new vendor for election equipment (West Virginia) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 16, 2005 CHARLESTON - State election officials announced Thursday that Election Systems & Software (ES&S) has been ed as the new vendor for election equipment in West Virginia. |
Kanawha officials debate voting methods (Kanawha Co., WV) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 16, 2005 Now that Secretary of State Betty Ireland has chosen a vendor for the state's next voting machines, it's up to the Kanawha County Commission to decide between touch-screen or optical scan machines. |
E-voting criticized in movie marathon (Alameda Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 16, 2005 About 30 people hunkered in the darkness of the Grand Lake Theater for a marathon program that eschewed slick Hollywood production in favor of fastidious cinematic presentations about the hazards of electronic voting. |
Residents can try five voting systems (Beaver Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 15, 2005 BEAVER - Beaver County residents will have the opportunity next month to test five electronic voting systems and share their preference with county officials. |
Agency says lever voting machines don't meet federal requirements (Connecticut) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 15, 2005 HARTFORD, Conn. Connecticut's 3,500 lever-style mechanical voting machines may have to be replaced before the 2006 election because a federal commission has ruled the old machines are not accessible to all voters, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz said Thursday. |
County Council delays vote on voting machines (Snohomish Co., WA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 15, 2005 EVERETT - A proposal to spend $1 million to keep the county's voting machines legal was temporarily shelved by the Snohomish County Council in a unanimous vote Wednesday. |
Schuylkill considers scanning votes (Schuylkill Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 15, 2005 Schuylkill County would continue to use paper ballots under a plan the county commissioners are considering, officials said Wednesday. |
State moves on voting upgrades (Wyoming) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 15, 2005 CHEYENNE During the 2000 general election in Hanna, an unusually large number of voters turned out for the lively and contentious mayoral election. |
County won't have voting machines till primary in May (Athens Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 15, 2005 Though Athens County won't have new voting devices this November after all, the voting process may be more complicated than usual anyway. |
County buying paperless machines (Brazoria Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, September 14, 2005 ANGLETON ? The March primaries will bring electronic voting to Brazoria County but will eliminate paper trails that could be used in a recount. |
Council may ignore paper-backup law for elections (Snohomish Co., WA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, September 14, 2005 Despite a Jan. 1 compliance deadline, the Snohomish County Council may wait until after that date to spend about $1 million for backup election equipment. |
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