Island County approves upgraded voting machines (Island Co., WA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 Everett Herald 21 July 2005 COUPEVILLE - Island County voters face one more election season using punch-card ballots.
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Receipt negates 'hanging chad' worry (Gloucester Co., NJ) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 Michelle Mostovy-Eisenberg Gloucester County Times 21 July 2005 Voters who cast ballots on electronic machines like the ones used in Gloucester County will get a receipt under a bill signed into law by Acting Gov. Richard Codey.
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Commissioners await guidance on voting machines (Bucks Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 BRIAN CALLAWAY Bucks County Courier Times 21 July 2005 Demonstrators armed with signs and scads of questions about voting machines dominated Wednesday's meeting of Bucks County's commissioners.
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First company OK'd to offer touch-screen voting machines in Missouri Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 KELLY WIESE Associated Press 21 July 2005 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The secretary of state's office said Thursday it has approved the first company to offer touch-screen voting machines in Missouri.
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The battle of the ballot boxes begins: Voting machine makers vie for bid (Essex Co., NJ) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 PAUL BRUBAKER The Montclair Times 20 July 2005 Six voting machine vendors will face off to try to win the approval of Essex County Elections Superintendent Carmine P. Casciano in an open forum before Essex County freeholders and the public that Casciano arranged in an agreement he made with local voting rights activists
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New vote system is touching (Monterey Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 JOE LIVERNOIS Monterey Herald 21 July 2005 Elections in Monterey County will soon be conducted by touch-screen voting machines that look as though they could be R2-D2's grandchildren.
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Bucks urged to vote out machines (Bucks Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 Hal Marcovitz The Morning Call 21 July 2005 A citizens group called on the Bucks County commissioners Wednesday to turn down state aid to replace the county's voting machines, and instead provide stopgap measures to make the Eisenhower-era devices comply with the 2002 U.S. Help America Vote Act.
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Optical-scan systems are best choice for voting (New York) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 AIMEE ALLAUD Opinion Buffalo News 21 July 2005 In a recent oped article in The Buffalo News, Jeffrey Zaino of the American Arbitration Association questioned whether New York State would be ready for the 2006 elections. Zaino's concern is shared by the League of Women Voters of New York State.
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N.C. Senate panel backs voting machine standards, paper records Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press 21 July 2005 RALEIGH, N.C. A Senate committee Thursday recommended new voting machine standards that would require a paper record of each ballot cast and require sample hand counts to ensure accurate totals.
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Election official's pay docked for forwarding political donation (Franklin Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Associated Press 20 July 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio - The director of the Franklin County Board of Elections will lose 30 days' pay for forwarding a $10,000 check to the Republican Party from a voting-machine company's representative.
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$10,000 check not from us, Diebold says (Ohio) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Akron Beacon Journal 20 July 2005 Diebold Corp., the Green-based maker of electronic voting machines, is denying any involvement in a $10,000 check one of its outside consultants handed to Franklin County's elections director on a day the board was opening bids for new voter-registration software.
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Electronic Voting Law Splits Florida Disabled Advocates (Volusia Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Brendan Coyne The New Standard 20 July 2005 Jul 20 - An approaching deadline for the purchase and installation of electronic voting machines designed to ease the voting process for Florida?s disabled citizens has pulled one county into court and created a rift in the state?s disabled advocacy community over the necessity of including paper receipts on the machines.
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Board should hold a revote in the city (Berks Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Editorial Reading Eagle 20 July 2005 The Issue: The Berks County Elections Board decides not to hold a special election in four city precincts where 111 votes were lost during the primary election.
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Voting machines won't stand up, Bucks solicitor warns (Bucks Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Pervaiz Shallwani Allentown Morning Call 20 July 2005 Bucks County's voting machines 'would not comply' with state or federal laws, and the county should move forward on a mandate to replace them by the end of the year.
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A new way of voting (Leflore Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Kyle Martin The Greenwood Commonwealth 20 July 2005 Leflore County election commissioners are pleased so far with the touch screen voting machines suggested by Secretary of State Eric Clark.
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McKinney urges inquiry into electronic voting (Georgia) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, July 19, 2005 COREY DADE The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 19 July 2005 Fourth-District Rep. Cynthia McKinney on Monday called for an investigation of the state's electronic voting machines, pointing to numerous problems with equipment failure, defects and software problems in the 2002 elections.
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County to review voting machine proposals (MIssissippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, July 19, 2005 NITA MCCANN The Natchez Democrat 19 July 2005 NATCHEZ - County supervisors will review proposals from several voting machine companies before ing one from which to buy machines that disabled people can use more easily.
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Why voters dislike machines (North Carolina) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, July 19, 2005 Editorial Wilmington Star News 19 July 2005 North Carolinians can regain some trust in the accuracy of election returns if the General Assembly requires voting machines to make printed records and let voters check them before they leave the booth.
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DeSoto County may be at odds over voting machine choice (DeSoto Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, July 19, 2005 Associated Press Biloxi Sun Herald 19 July 2005 HERNANDO, Miss. - DeSoto County officials are debating whether to switch to new Diebold Corporation voting machines being touted by Secretary of State Eric Clark under a state contract.
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Voting computers coming, supervisors want more info (Pontotoc Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, July 19, 2005 REGINA BUTLER Pontotoc Progress 19 July 2005 Pontotoc County?s future voting methods are mounting into a virtual ?Clash of the Titans? with the state in wrangling with the decision of what computer company to use.
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