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EFF Supports Disabled Voters in Fight Against Paperless E-Voting (Volusia Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 15, 2005 Orlando, FL - infoZine - On Thursday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Florida attorney Jeff Liggio filed an emergency amicus brief on behalf of Volusia County disabled residents who oppose the purchase of paperless touchscreen voting machines. The brief, supporting Volusia County Council members who are seeking to purchase an alternate voting system that better addresses accessibility issues and also produces a voter-verified paper ballot, was submitted in opposition to a lawsuit filed July 5th by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). |
N.J. to get e-voting paper trail, but not until 2008 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 15, 2005 ULY 15, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - New Jersey has passed a new law mandating voter-verifiable paper trails for electronic touchpad voting machines, but election reform advocates in the state are pressing ahead with legal action because the new requirement doesn't take effect until Jan. 1, 2008. |
Hearing set in touch screen suit (Volusia Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 14, 2005 Attorneys representing Volusia County pointed to its history of tight election races and recounts on Wednesday for their opposition to touch-screen voting machines. |
Lee supervisors uncertain about voting machines (Lee Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 14, 2005 TUPELO - Lee County supervisors aren't sure they want to participate in a statewide initiative for touch-screen voting machines. |
Borofsky resigns as elections administrator Bexar Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 14, 2005 Bexar County Elections Administrator Cliff Borofsky resigned today to take the same post in Williamson County. |
Carteret tosses voting system (Carteret Co., NC) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 14, 2005 BEAUFORT - The Carteret County Board of Elections has notified county and state officials that it no longer plans to use the county's electronic voting system and alternate plans for voting machines need to be made before the upcoming municipal elections. |
Opponents square off in vote fight Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 14, 2005 DELAND Attorneys for Volusia County defended the County Council's opposition to touch-screen voting machines, saying in a court filing Wednesday that such devices are "adverse to the public interest" because they don't produce paper ballots. |
Messing up N.C.'s vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 14, 2005 WINSTON-SALEM In North Carolina's 2004 general election, Carteret County was the victim of a single computer error that threw out over 4,500 votes. To prevent a failure of this magnitude from occurring again a bipartisan committee convened for several months this winter, hearing testimony from election officials, computer experts and citizens. |
Warren edges closer to electronic voting (Warren Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 14, 2005 WHITE TWP. Freeholders took their first step toward electronic voting in Warren County on Wednesday with a vote to allocate $1.725 million to buy and support electronic voting machines. |
After long delay, voting machines may be in county's near future (Athens Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 14, 2005 It appears likely that Athens County will have new voting machines at some or all of its polling locations in November. While the Athens County Board of Elections did not make any decisions on Wednesday about when the new voting machines will be implemented, three of the four members said they favor at least putting new voting machines in some, and possibly all, of the locations. |
Freeholders approve voting machine funds (Essex Co., NJ) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 14, 2005 The Essex Board of Chosen Freeholders unanimously approved a $7.5 million bond ordinance to buy new voting machines at the Hall of Records in Newark on Wednesday, July 13, but not before a surprise pact was made between Essex County Superintendent of Elections Carmine Casciano and Montclair voting-rights advocate Katherine Joyce. |
All Bark and No Bite (Maricopa Co., AZ) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 13, 2005 I have no faith in the ability of Maricopa County to conduct fair and accurate elections. It's now appallingly apparent that County Attorney Andrew Thomas is skirting the serious problems gripping the Maricopa County Elections Department. |
Commissioners OK electronic voting machine buy (Denton Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Some voters who cast ballots in the Nov. 8 election at six Denton County polling places will do so electronically, with machines that don't produce a paper trail. |
New program could wind up costing local taxpayers (Chippewa Co., WI) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Kathy Bernier isn't against people voting. Her job as county clerk depends on her winning votes. But Bernier says local tax-payers will be shortchanged under a federal program designed to allow the blind and the quadriplegic to vote without assistance. |
For S.L. County, 'democracy just got a lot more expensive' (Salt Lake Co., UT) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Ensuring integrity in elections will be costly for Salt Lake County. To comply with the Help America Vote Act, the county, later this year, will upgrade from punch cards to 2,817 electronic Diebold machines. The federal government will foot that $10 million bill. |
E-voting: paper trail versus transparency Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 13, 2005 In the heat of major political campaigns and elections, we hear a lot about electronic voting and the fight over their accuracy and trustworthiness. However, it is now between elections that the real work gets done. While experts have placed transparency through open source systems and software high on the list of requirements for trustworthy elections, the debate over a verifiable voter paper receipt has recently overshadowed all other issues. Experts indicated while both printed paper backups and open code are key components to reliable and trustworthy electronic voting, openness may be suffering from lack of attention and support. |
New voting machines coming... (Adams Co., IN) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Adams County officials are two or three weeks away from purchasing 70 new voting machines for the county at a price tag of almost $287,000 all to be paid by the federal government. |
Bidding reopened for voting machines (Louisiana) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 12, 2005 BATON ROUGE The state will reopen bidding on a contract for at least $47 million worth of new voting machines today , using more simplified guidelines for up to seven companies to submit proposals, Commissioner of Elections Angie LaPlace said Monday. |
Residents invited to view voting machines county may buy (Luzerne Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 12, 2005 Electronic voting machines being considered for mandated county implementation will be on display in the courthouse from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Residents are asked to sample the machines and offer feedback to a committee, whose members will be on hand throughout the day. |
Polling decision will cost $1.67 million (Snohomish Co., WA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 12, 2005 The price tag to keep Snohomish County's polling places open has gone up, jumping from $1 million to $1.67 million to reflect ongoing costs, according to a report issued Monday. |
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