Alameda County Could Replace Diebold Machines (California) Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 26, 2005 MATTHEW ARTZ Berkeley Daily Planet 26 August 2005 The Alameda County Board of Supervisors Tuesday will consider accepting bids for new voting machines to replace the controversial Diebold touch-screen voting systems.
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County asks residents to test, rate new voting machines (Santa Cruz Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 26, 2005 BRIAN SEALS Santa Cruz Sentinel 26 August 2005 As the county readies for new voting systems in 2006, it is asking voters to grade six possible new voting machines.
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Officials split over voting machines (Mobile Co., AL) Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 26, 2005 SALLIE OWEN Mobile Register 26 August 2005 ORANGE BEACH Frustrated by delays at the state level, Mobile County Commission President Mike Dean said Thursday that the county should switch to paper ballots read by optical scanners at least for next year's elections.
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County mulls 'touchy' subject (Brazoria Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, August 25, 2005 Colleen O'Brien Pearland Journal 25 August 2005 Just how safe is your touch-screen digital vote? Does it get recorded correctly? Can the code be manipulated? What if the voting machine breaks down, or worse, switches the vote before your very eyes? How do you conduct an accurate audit? There's a lot of controversy, and a lot of taxpayer's money, whirling around the subject. Fortunately, both sides of the political aisle are behind securing the voting process, including having a paper trail.
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Mobile County officials to lease voting equipment (Mobile Co., AL) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, August 25, 2005 SALLIE OWEN Mobile Register 25 August 2005 ORANGE BEACH Because of the continued uncertainty over what kind of voting machines will comply with federal reforms, Mobile County officials have decided to lease equipment for the 2006 elections instead of buying, Commission President Mike Dean said.
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Voting Machines - Field narrows to four Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, August 25, 2005 J.D. Prose Beaver County Times 25 August 2005 BEAVER - Beaver County officials have asked four companies to bring their electronic voting systems here for public evaluations, including the maker of the county's former system that was banned by the state this year.
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County looks at 'blended' voting (Alameda Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, August 25, 2005 Ian Hoffman ANG News 25 August 2005 Alameda County ? the first large West Coast county to gamble on Diebold Election Systems Inc. and its electronic voting machines ? is weighing whether to end that experiment, going with a more paper-based voting system and perhaps another supplier.
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Paper trail turns tide for voting machines (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, August 25, 2005 Eric Stringfellow The Clarion-Ledger 25 August 2005 When Secretary of State Eric Clark announced in July plans to purchase new touch-screen voting machines, he didn't seem prepared for the boo birds, especially from other Democrats.
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Lafayette County gets voting machines (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, August 25, 2005 Jermaine Jackson The Daily Mississippi 25 August 2005 Lafayette County supervisors have made a decision that affects the way local voters will elect their representation.
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Voting machine deadline looms (St Joseph Co., IN) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, August 25, 2005 JAMES WENSITS South Bend Tribune 25 August 2005 SOUTH BEND As the deadline for meeting a federal requirement to provide handicapped-friendly voting machines looms near, some county officials are talking mutiny.
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Electronic voting requires verification (Virginia) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 24, 2005 Editorial Roanoke Times 24 August 2005 Virginia shouldn't spend another dime on voting equipment that doesn't provide a paper trail.
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Partial recount vindicates San Diego voting machines (San Diego, CA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 24, 2005 Daniel J. Chac?n San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE 24 August 2005
Voting machines that critics have labeled unreliable work after all. A partial recount yesterday to test the accuracy of scanners that read ballots and tallied votes in the San Diego mayor's race July 26 revealed results that were nearly identical to those of the machines.
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New voting system under review (Wyoming Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 24, 2005 DIXIE CASSELBURY, Wyoming County Press Examiner 24 August 2005 The new system is being researched by the Wyoming County Commissioners and is called the AccuVote-TSX. The system will come from the Diebold Election Systems, of Texas.
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Commissioners face voting machine woes (Fayette Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 24, 2005 Chris Foreman Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 24 August 2005 Four months before a deadline to meet federal election standards, Fayette County's commissioners believe state-administered grants won't even cover half of the cost to comply with the Help America Vote Act, or HAVA, of 2002
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Voting machines raising concerns (Coahoma Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 24, 2005 DAVID OWENS The Clarksdale Press Register 24 August 2005 Seventy six of the state's 82 counties opted into the new touch-screen voting machine system by Friday's deadline. However, in many counties including Coahoma, supervisors didn't see much choice in the matter.
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Keep the polls open? Costly move likely (Snohomish Co., WA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 24, 2005 Christopher Schwarzen Seattle Times 24 August 2005 Snohomish County likely will spend more than $1 million to back up electronic voting machines with paper records instead of switching to a cheaper all-mail election system.
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Freeholders to case votes for a ballot box (Essex Co., NJ) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 24, 2005 ERICA ZARRA The Montclair Times 24 August 2005 With the September deadline fast approaching, a decision has not yet been made by Essex County in the battle of the ballot box builders, especially as the electronic voting machine once considered the frontrunner may not meet new state requirements in time for the 2006 elections.
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Virginia group pushes voting equipment with paper audit Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 23, 2005 TYLER WHITLEY Richmond TIMES-DISPATCH 23 August 2005 Virginia's voting machine of choice got a going-over yesterday from a grass-roots group and computer experts.
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Morgan to receive voting equipment (Morgan Co., UT) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Deanne Winterton Standard-Examiner 23 August 2005 MORGAN The Morgan County Council approved a contract with the state Friday that allows the county to move into the computerized age of elections.
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Clark needs to deliver on promise Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Opinion Hattiesburg American 23 August 2005
The most accurate elections in the history of Mississippi. That's what Secretary of State Eric Clark promised Friday will be the result of the decision by a vast majority of Mississippi counties to use new electronic, touch-screen voting machines.
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