Kimble: 'Mother of security holes' in state voting system (Arizona) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, August 11, 2005 MARK KIMBLE Tuscon Citizen 11 August 2005 Electronic scanners that Pima County uses to count votes have "the mother of security holes" that can be exploited by someone with "mediocre technical ability."
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Diebold opens contract (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 10, 2005 Leesha Faulkner Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal 10 August 2005 Diebold Elections Systems has voluntarily opened its contract with the state, and copies soon will be available to the public.
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Carteret commissioners seek voting machine test (Carteret Co., NC) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 10, 2005 Associated Press 10 August 2005 Carteret County commissioners, still smarting over a programming mistake that cost 4,438 votes in last fall's election, want to give their electronic voting machines another try before they abandon them.
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Carteret wants to test voting equipment (Carteret Co., NC) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 10, 2005 Jannette Pippin New Bern Sun Journal 10 August 2005 BEAUFORT - Carteret commissioners want to see the county's electronic voting equipment put to a test before any other voting method is put into place.
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Elections officials study bids to provide new voting machines (Louisiana) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 10, 2005 MARSHA SHULER The Baton Rouge Advocate 10 August 2005 There were no surprises as state elections officials got a second set of proposals Tuesday from companies seeking to provide the state with nearly $50 million worth of new voting machines.
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5 election machine firms cast new bids with state (Louisiana) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 10, 2005 Ed Anderson The Times-Picayune 10 August 2005 BATON ROUGE Five election machine manufacturing companies submitted new proposals to state officials Tuesday that could land one of them a $47 million contract for about 5,000 voting machines.
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Old county election problems ending; new ones begin (Columbia Co., WI) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 10, 2005 Paul Ferguson Portage Daily Register 10 August 2005 After recent elections marked by troubles with ballot-counting machines, Columbia County is scrapping its system.
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Undecideds lead voting machine tally (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 10, 2005 Leesha Faulkner Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal 10 August 2005 What you know about the new touch-screen depends on the story: The Diebold machines work fine. Other states have rejected the Diebold touch-screen voting machines because they crash. The state didn't give counties enough time to consider. The Diebold machines don't meet all handicap standards.
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Others states to follow Oregon's vote by mail system, Bradbury says Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 10, 2005 Joel Gallob Newport News-Times 10 August 2005 Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury, speaking as a guest of the Newport Rotary Club last Thursday at The Embarcadero Resort, lauded Oregon's vote by mail election system and said other states around the country are likely to adopt some version of it in the next few years.
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Clark: Voting Machines Will Include Printers (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 10, 2005 Associated Press 10 August 2005 Printers will be included with the new touch-screen voting machines many Mississippi counties are buying, and those printers will provide a paper trail to let people check how they vote, Secretary of State Eric Clark says.
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The X-factor of TSx voting machines (San Joaquin Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 10, 2005 Michael Fitzgerald, The Record, Stockton, Calif. 10 August 2005 Aug. 10 - If you bought a car that kept breaking down, you'd return the lemon. So why does the county persist in keeping the AccuVote TSx voting machines?
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Secretary of state touts one voting system (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 9, 2005 BOBBY HARRISON Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal 09 August 2005 JACKSON - Twenty-eight of Mississippi's 82 counties, including six in Northeast Mississippi, have agreed to accept the new touch-screen voting machines being advocated by Secretary of State Eric Clark.
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Voting machine demo draws county supervisors (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 9, 2005 JENNIFER FARISH Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal 09 August 2005 OXFORD - A demonstration of voting machines that can be purchased as an alternative to the state option drew representatives from several counties to Oxford Monday.
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County picks voting system (Adams Co., IN) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 9, 2005 ERIC MANN Decatur Daily Democrat 09 August 2005
Infinity is coming to Adams County. That's the name of the high-tech voting system, costing almost $287,000, that the county will buy with federal money funneled through the state government.
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Course backing new touch-screen voting machines (Leflore Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 9, 2005 Kyle Martin The Greenwood Commonwealth 09 August 2005 Edward Course, chairman of the Leflore County Election Commission, is recommending the county accept the state's offer of Diebold Election Systems voting machines.
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State NAACP, Dems want to see plans for new touch-screen voting machines (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 9, 2005 Chris Joyner Jackson Clarion Ledger 09 August 2005 Mississippi Secretary of State Eric Clark told a group of civic leaders Monday putting touchscreen voting machines in every precinct in the state is the best way to ensure secure and accurate elections.
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'Electile dysfunction' Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 9, 2005 Editorial Toledo Blade 09 August 2005 A STATEHOUSE cynic once described the Ohio League of Women Voters as being composed of "the Democratic wives of Republican businessmen," but over the years the league has developed a deserved reputation as a good-government group with a genuine concern for the proper conduct of elections in this state.
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High-tech voting accessory: Paper Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 9, 2005 Jim Drinkard USA Today 09 August 2005 WASHINGTON ? Three years into a national debate over the security and reliability of computerized voting machines, the skeptics are winning.
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Punch card voting's days are numbered in Mo. (Missouri) Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, August 8, 2005 Jo Mannies St. Louis Post Dispatch 08 August 2005 In just less than one year - next Aug. 8 - most Missouri voters will go to the polls and make a discovery:
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Secretary for voter rights (New Hampshire) Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, August 8, 2005 JESSIE SALISBURY Nashua Telegraph 08 August 2005 WILTON ? The new federal law Help America Vote Act was designed to prevent ?another Florida,? New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner told a group gathered in the Town Hall courtroom to discuss the movie ?Invisible Ballots.? The act, however, has taken away some of a state?s ability to control its elections.
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