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Bandera voters say nay to new machines (Bandera Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 31, 2005 Hemingway wrote with only a pencil while living in Paris, scratching short stories onto a small notepad, preserving his observations and thoughts forever on paper. Striving for that same simple permanency, some Bandera County voters have cried nay to the prospect of new electronic voting machines. |
Commissioners vote to go with state's plan for voting machines (Utah Co., UT) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 31, 2005 County commissioners took a leap into the voting future Tuesday, deciding to replace the county's fleet of punchcard voting machines with ATM-like electronic ones, maybe forcing a future tax increase in the process. |
San Joaquin keeps its touch-screen voting (San Joaquin Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 31, 2005 San Joaquin County is going to stay with the Diebold Inc. touch-screen voting system and let the company iron out its problems, said the county's registrar of voters, Deborah Hench. |
Alameda County seeks new electronic voting system Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, August 30, 2005 OAKLAND - The Alameda County Board of Supervisors is seeking a new electronic voting system that could meet both state and federal requirements by January 1. |
Voting machine issue divides Carteret leaders (Carteret Co., NC) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, August 30, 2005 BEAUFORT - There has been a triangle of e-mail messages, letters and telephone conversations in the weeks since the Carteret County Board of Elections announced it no longer intends to use its electronic voting equipment. |
Utah County may upgrade voting equipment (Utah Co., UT) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, August 30, 2005 In 2006, Utah County residents could be casting their votes via ATM-like computers, an optical scan system, the same punchcard machines they've been using for years, or on the phone, depending on what county commissioners decide today. |
E-vote paper trail bill on governor's desk (California) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, August 30, 2005 California is on the verge of turning away from electrons and toward paper as the ultimate arbiter of democratic choice, with final passage Monday of a bill requiring the use of paper trails for recounting votes. |
Commissioners don't yet agree on voting machines (Kanawha Co., WV) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, August 30, 2005 Kanawha County Commissioners Dave Hardy and Hoppy Shores have not decided whether to accept the free optical-scan voting machines offered by the Secretary of State's office or to pay half the cost of touch-screen machines. |
Commentary: Diebold VP Says Company?s Machines Recorded Tallies Accurately in Test Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, August 30, 2005 A recent guest editorial in your paper inaccurately criticized Secretary of State Bruce McPherson about the latest developments in California?s move to electronic voting machines. The piece misused several figures reported by the Associated Press and Con tra Costa Times about a recent testing of Diebold Election Systems, Inc.?s (DESI) AccuVote-TSX with AccuView Printer Module election voting machines. The author also sarcastically accused a respected public official of poor math skills. One of the misstated facts claimed that during the dry-run test of the Diebold election system, McPherson?s office reported a 10 percent failure rate (the guest writer wondered if the failure rate was actually higher, which it was not). In fact, in that test, 10,720 votes were recorded on 96 voting machines with 100 percent accuracy. Despite 11 paper jams and 21 other problems on the new machine-printer combination, not a single ballot was lost. |
Senate OKs security requirements for voting machines (California) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, August 29, 2005 Legislation establishing security requirements for electronic voting machines ? including a requirement that they not be linked to the Internet ? was approved Monday by the state Senate. |
Address other fraud avenues (Georgia) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, August 29, 2005 The champions of requiring only government-issued voter photo identification at the polls are suspiciously silent on two issues: valid voter photo identification for those who mail in absentee ballots and equipping all electronic voting machines with receipts. |
BOWEN MEASURE TO ENSURE THE INTEGRITY OF CALIFORNIA?S VOTING ... Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, August 29, 2005 A bill by Senator Debra Bowen (D-Redondo Beach) designed to catch electronic voting machine tabulation errors and ensure the integrity of California?s electoral system cleared the full Senator today on a bipartisan 36-0 vote and now goes to the Governor. |
Southfield to unveil optical scan voting (Oakland Co., MI) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 28, 2005 SOUTHFIELD Southfield will unveil its new optical scan voting machines Monday as part of an Oakland County initiative to streamline elections and create a more reliable system of counting ballots. |
Election official says lever voting machines still OK Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 28, 2005 HARRISBURG - A federal election official said that lever voting machines do not necessarily have to be replaced under the 2002 Help America Vote Act, a departure from what Pennsylvania elections officials have been telling reluctant counties. |
Punch card voting's end could close precincts (Tennessee) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 28, 2005 A federal law requiring states to replace punch card voting machines could lead to the closing of some of Gibson County's 40 voting precincts. |
Board seeks joint session with county (Carteret Co., NC) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 28, 2005 BEAUFORT ? After weeks of tension and adversity, the County Board of Commissioners and Board of Elections will hold a joint meeting to resolve voting system issues in Carteret. |
Flagler tests new voting machines (Flagler Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, August 27, 2005 BUNNELL The future is now for touch-screen voting in Flagler County. When early voting begins Monday in the Palm Coast City Council primary, voters may choose to file an optical scan ballot or use one of the county's new touch-screen voting machines. |
Nassau urged to buy election ballot scanners (Nassau Co., NY) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 26, 2005 Facing a federal mandate to change the way voters cast their ballots, Nassau should replace its old mechanical voting machines with new optical scanning equipment, several citizens' groups told county legislators this week. |
Folks get closer look at new voting systems (St Louis Co., MO) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 26, 2005 Estelle Polizzi tried her hand Thursday at the various new-fangled voting machines and came away declaring that she didn't care whether she casts her next ballot on an optical-scan or touch-screen device. |
Election Expenses May Double In 2006 (Benton Co., AR) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 26, 2005 BENTONVILLE Benton County's election officials have begun preparing for the financial burden of running a federally mandated electronic voting system that doesn't even exist yet. |
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