Questions remain over new voting machines (Pearl River Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 20, 2005 BUTCH WEIR Picayune Item 20 August 2005 POPLARVILLE - Despite approval by county supervisors last Wednesday afternoon to accept the new touch-screen Diebold voting machines, Circuit Clerk Vickie Hariel said questions about cost and efficiency still remain.
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Voting flap funds ahead? (Johnson Co., IN) Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 19, 2005 MICHAEL W. HOSKINS Johnson County Daily Journal 19 August 2005 As a new election season approaches, Johnson County is reviewing problems from the past to see if it can collect money from a voting-equipment supplier.
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Democrats urge optical-scan voting machines (Dutchess Co., NY) Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 19, 2005 Anthony Farmer Poughkeepsie Journal 19 August 2005 RED HOOK ? Voters in Dutchess County will have to bring a No. 2 pencil to the polls, beginning with the 2006 election, if a group of local Democrats has its way.
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Counties should sign up for plan (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 19, 2005 Editorial The Clarion Ledger 19 August 2005 Secretary of State Eric Clark had given Mississippi counties by today to decide if they should take advantage of the state's deal to provide touch-screen computerized voting and, by now, any hesitation about the deal should be gone.
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Supervisors Discuss Options On New Voting Machines (Keokuk Co., IA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 19, 2005 Keota Eable 19 August 2005 The Keokuk County Board of Supervisors met on Mon., Aug. 15 to discuss the options of purchasing different voting machines.
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Utica recount accurate, Hinds election commission says (Hinds Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 19, 2005 Raymond Reeves Clarion Ledger 19 August 2005 UTICA ? Mayor Charles E. Stokes' re-election was validated this morning after a meeting with members of the Hinds County Election Commission confirmed the recount of Tuesday's elections in Utica was accurate.
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New snag for voting machines (Utah) Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 19, 2005 Glen Warchol The Salt Lake Tribune 19 August 2005 The latest controversy with state-of-the-art electronic voting machines Utah has ordered is whether their paper backups will qualify for election recounts.
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Lobbyists register with S.L. County (Utah) Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 19, 2005 Derek P. Jensen Salt Lake Tribune 19 August 2005 Letter of the law: Tetris team says it was unaware of the requirement until it heard about it from The Tribune
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County not sold on voting receipts (Brazoria Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 19, 2005 Michael Wright The Facts 19 August 2005 ANGLETON ? Brazoria County officials saw a demonstration Thursday of electronic voting machines that leave a paper trail, but they aren?t sold on the idea.
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Touch-screen signup growing (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, August 18, 2005 Associated Press 18 August 2005 Secretary of State Eric Clark says 66 counties have signed up to use new touch-screen voting machines that the state will make available in 2006.
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County votes to keep its polls open, despite cost (Snohomish Co., WA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, August 18, 2005 Jeff Switzer Everett Herald 18 August 2005 EVERETT - Snohomish County voters will keep their right to go to the polls, despite a still-climbing estimated cost to do so.
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Citizens Request Recount, Say Scanners Probably Tainted Results (San Diego, CA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, August 18, 2005 EVAN McLAUGHLIN Voice of San Diego 18 August 2005 A local citizens group claims that the automated voting machines used in San Diego made mistakes that changed the results of the July 26 special election significantly and it is paying the county to do a manual recount of ballots cast in 11 precincts.
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Recount may spur election challenge (Utica, Hinds Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, August 18, 2005 Raymond Reeves Clarion Ledger 18 August 2005 A mayoral candidate plans to challenge Tuesday's municipal elections results after an unscheduled, late-night recount elevated incumbent Mayor Charles Stokes from a runoff berth to the winner.
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Count the Vote, and Watch the Vote Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, August 18, 2005 Margie Burns The Sentinel 18 August 2005 Several grassroots citizens' organizations are working persistently to restore and to protect the integrity of the voting process in the U.S.
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EDITORIAL: Ballot integrity is first (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 17, 2005 Daily Journal 17 August 2005 Lee County's Board of Supervisors faces an important decision in choosing the brand of voting machines it will use to comply with the Help America Vote Act - a law mandating voting machines nationwide that are easily usable by all voters, including disabled people.
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Sixty-five counties to take part in state voting machine buy (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 17, 2005 Associated Press 17 August 2005 JACKSON, Miss. - Secretary of State Eric Clark says 65 counties have signed up to use new touch-screen voting machines that will be made available by the state in 2006.
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Electronic voting booths arrive in area (Ohio) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 17, 2005 Joanne Huist Smith Dayton Daily News 17 August 2005 DAYTON | ? Electronic voting machines have arrived in the Miami Valley, and elections officials are sweating over security and scheduling public information blitzes.
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Deadline looms to replace voting machines (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 17, 2005 Alison Hawkes Uniontown Herald-Standard 17 August 2005 HARRISBURG - In the first massive replacement of Pennsylvania's decades-old voting machines, county officials say they are on a tight four-month deadline to decide which machines to purchase because of late state certification.
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County folds to pressure from SoS Clark and Diebold (Itawamba C., MS) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 17, 2005 ALISHA H. WILSON Itawamba County Times 17 August 2005 Itawamba County Board of Supervisors have decided to "opt in" and operate under the state's recommendation for new voting machines.
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CHARLIE MITCHELL: Touch-screen voting a hard sell in Mississippi Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 17, 2005 Opinion Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal 17 August 2005 In two years, perhaps less, the vast majority of Mississippians will wonder what all the fuss was about, says Secretary of State Eric Clark.
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