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County squares off with Secretary Clark over voting machines (DeSoto Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 19, 2005 At Monday?s Board of Supervisors meeting County Election Commission Chairman Paul Beale said the county?s optical scan voting machines meet all federal requirements under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). |
County unveils finalists for new voting machine (Luzerne Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 19, 2005 County commissioners must choose one voting machine for all 316 precincts in Luzerne County within the next two months. The public was invited to the courthouse to try out prospective models and speak with company representatives. |
Diebold woes keep officials cautious (Lee Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 19, 2005 TUPELO - As Mississippi Secretary of State Eric Clark tries to woo Northeast Mississippi county governments into taking the Diebold touch-screen voting machines, supervisors in Lee County and at least one election commissioner prefer to research the issue further. |
Diebold woes keep officials cautious (Lee Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 19, 2005 TUPELO - As Mississippi Secretary of State Eric Clark tries to woo Northeast Mississippi county governments into taking the Diebold touch-screen voting machines, supervisors in Lee County and at least one election commissioner prefer to research the issue further. |
Missouri Certifies AccuPoll E-Voting Machines for use in Statewide Elections Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 18, 2005 AccuPoll Inc., a developer of direct recording electronic (DRE) voting systems, today announced that its DRE voting system has been qualified by the Missouri Secretary of State. The state of Missouri requires that any DRE Voting System must be qualified under the 2002 FEC Voting System Standards and print a voter verified paper audit trail (VVPAT). As of July 14, 2005, AccuPoll is the only vendor fully qualified by the Missouri Secretary of State to conduct elections using a DRE voting system in the state of Missouri, according to the company. |
McKinney calls for review of voting machines (Georgia) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 18, 2005 Georgia should review its electronic voting machines to make sure they're accurate, Rep. Cynthia McKinney said Monday. |
Changes to election act produce controversy (North Carolina) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 18, 2005 Recent changes to North Carolina's Public Confidence in Elections Act continue to draw the ire of verified voting advocates, but state election officials remain supportive. |
Voting bill to get a vote (North Carolina) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 18, 2005 Eight months have passed since North Carolina drew national attention for problems with its voting system, such as the loss of 4,438 votes in Carteret County because of a lack of memory in an electronic voting machine. |
Coahoma County to get new voting machines (Coahoma Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 18, 2005 The Coahoma County Board of Supervisors has until Aug. 15 to agree to accept new voting machines which abide by federal laws. The federal government passed the law almost four years ago, but the state of Mississippi only recently adopted which machine it will use. |
Ohio's high court enters voting-machine dispute Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 16, 2005 COLUMBUS - The Ohio Supreme Court yesterday waded into the battle between Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell and a voting-machine manufacturer that claims Mr. Blackwell's actions have cost it millions of dollars. |
Davis County to preview electronic voting machines (Davis Co., UT) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 16, 2005 FARMINGTON This Davis County city may be among the first in Utah to try out new touch-screen voting equipment in November's election. |
Volusia's ongoing touch-screen debate focuses on deadline (Volusia Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 16, 2005 An attorney for the National Federation of the Blind on Friday urged a federal judge to order Volusia County to immediately purchase controversial touch-screen voting machines. |
Not everyone a big fan of mail voting (Spokane Co., WA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 16, 2005 Marshall Mitchell clearly remembers the first time he voted. It was 1972. He was 20. His father and mother drove him to their Brent, Ala., polling site. Marshall, who used a wheelchair because of a diving accident, waited in the van while his dad brought a ballot to him. |
Federal judge to rule on ballot standoff (Volusia Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 16, 2005 ORLANDO An attorney representing blind voters compared Volusia County's refusal to buy touch-screen machines to the Alabama governor who tried in 1963 to keep black students out of an all-white school. |
Ohio's high court enters voting-machine dispute Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 15, 2005 COLUMBUS - The Ohio Supreme Court yesterday waded into the battle between Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell and a voting-machine manufacturer that claims Mr. Blackwell's actions have cost it millions of dollars. |
State unveils computerized vote machines (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 15, 2005 BILOXI - Mississippi Secretary of State Eric Clark gave circuit clerks across the state a glimpse into the future Thursday, unveiling new computerized voting machines. |
New Jersey Says No to Paperless Voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 15, 2005 Trenton, NJ - In the shadow of a lawsuit demanding that New Jersey state laws to reflect its increasing use of electronic voting machines, New Jersey's acting governor recently signed into law legislation that will require all voting machines to produce a voter-verified paper record by 2008. |
Election equipment needs more space (Miami Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 15, 2005 TROY | Miami County election officials will tell county commissioners next week they not only need more space for operations, but more money to properly store $1 million in new touch screen voting equipment. |
County voting machines to print receipts (Hudson Co., NJ) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 15, 2005 Roughly 600 electronic voting machines purchased by Hudson County last year will have to be retrofitted to supply voters with paper receipts to comply with a new state law, county officials said. |
Carteret elects to ditch voting machines (Carteret Co., NC) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 15, 2005 The Carteret County voting machine that lost 4,438 votes and attracted national derision last fall has been unplugged for good. |
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