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County says it will keep electronic voting machines (Jackson Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 14, 2005 PASCAGOULA Jackson County and Secretary of State Eric Clark are not seeing eye to eye on the Help American Vote Act voting machine project. |
Report: Elections officials complain of pressure to buy products (Ohio) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 14, 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Officials with some of Ohio's county elections boards say representatives of a voting machine maker tried to strong-arm them into buying the company's products, a newspaper reported. |
Then there were three (Luzerne Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, August 13, 2005 USA - WILKES-BARRE - The committee charged with recommending new voting machines for use in Luzerne County in 2006 narrowed its choices Friday to three models, a small touch-screen machine and two full-faced-lever models in the style of the county's current machines.Members of Luzerne County's Electronic Voting Machine Committee agreed to meet Oct. 7 to finalize its recommendation. |
New voting machine uncontested (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 12, 2005 The list of electronic voting machines approved by the state for next year's elections has grown to one with a deadline looming for counties to order the new systems. |
Time's running out (Mercer Co., WV) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 12, 2005 Clock ticking on new Mercer voting process. The clock is ticking to for West Virginia to get its voting machines in compliance with federal regulations. Let's hope we'll be ready. |
Panel deadlocks over voting machines (Alabama) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 12, 2005 MONTGOMERY A state election panel deadlocked again Thursday, continuing uncertainty for counties that must upgrade voting machines by next year to conform with a federal mandate. |
Hinds: No new voting machines for us (Hinds Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 12, 2005 Hinds County, the state's largest, said Thursday it will keep its touchscreen voting machines and not accept new machines offered by the secretary of state's office. |
Voting machine purchase plans ensure integrity (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 12, 2005 The integrity of the vote is essential to a functioning democracy. For people to govern themselves, they must have access to the voting booth and know that their vote, once cast, will be counted equal to any other vote cast in each election. |
Old county election problems ending; new ones begin (Columbia Co., WI) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 12, 2005 PORTAGE -After recent elections marked by troubles with ballot-counting machines, Columbia County is scrapping its system. |
State likely to meet deadline on voting machines, Ireland says (West Virginia) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 11, 2005 Secretary of State Betty Ireland said Wednesday she?s confident the state will meet a Jan. 1, 2006, deadline to have voting systems in all 55 counties that comply with federal Help America Vote Act requirements. |
N.C. House approves new voting machine restrictions (North Carolina) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 11, 2005 The state House unanimously agreed late Thursday to permit only three types of voting methods in North Carolina and also agreed on how to disburse government grants to help pay for machine upgrades. |
Carteret County to use paper ballots for October elections (Carteret Co., NC) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 11, 2005 BEAUFORT - Carteret County will return to hand-counted paper ballots for the upcoming fall elections. |
Wait And Hurry Up (New York) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 11, 2005 The "hanging chad" debacle of 2000 showed Americans that voting machines can eat, add, misread or mistabulate ballots with ease. So in 2002, the federal government passed the $3.8 billion Help America Vote Act (HAVA), setting national standards for voting equipment and providing states with hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade voting technologies. |
Carteret County to use paper ballots in next election (Carteret Co., NC) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 11, 2005 Carteret County, where more than 4,400 votes were lost in last fall's elections because of a programming error, will return to paper ballots for this fall's elections, the local elections board decided. |
State: Counties to meet deadline on voting systems (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 11, 2005 HERSHEY - State election officials said yesterday they were confident that counties would be able to meet the end-of-the-year deadline for purchasing new electronic voting systems that meet federal standards. |
Freeholders delay casting ballot on voting machines (White Twp, NJ) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 11, 2005 WHITE TWP. Freeholders on Wednesday postponed a vote to set aside more than $1.6 million to pay for new electronic voting machines, saying they needed more information on the machines including the ways they would be serviced and delivered to polling places. |
Blind gain new voting option (Vermont) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 11, 2005 Richard Erickson is legally blind. He can no longer read an election ballot. To vote at the polls, someone must read the ballot to him and he must say aloud his voting choices. |
Ballots to have paper trail (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 11, 2005 Mississippi's new touchscreen voting machines will come equipped with a paper trail, Secretary of State Eric Clark announced Wednesday. |
Board plans to demonstrate voting machines (New York) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 11, 2005 The Otsego County Board of Elections plans to have a demonstration of voting machines for the public and county board in late September. |
Clark, Diebold agree on printers (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 11, 2005 TUPELO - Lee County Administrator Ronnie Bell continued to crunch numbers and field telephone calls Wednesday afternoon in an examination of Secretary of State Eric Clark's offer of voting machines. |
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