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Rep. McKinney (D-GA) Discusses Hack as Diebold Attacks Elections Official (Leon Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, June 27, 2005 "The bottom line is we can't trust the machines, and we can't trust the results being told to the American people," U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) said in a phone interview for the progressive news community, adding "we are planning some as-yet-undefined events in [our] district" around the issue. |
E-voting Paper-Trail Hopes Hit Roadblock Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, June 27, 2005 UNE 27, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Calls for the U.S. government to require that electronic voting machines produce voter-verified paper trails ran into opposition from two members of a Senate committee during a hearing on e-voting last week. |
2 counties risk lawsuits for spurning touch-screen voting machines (Florida) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, June 27, 2005 At least two Florida counties are balking at paperless touch-screen voting machines ? and risking lawsuits ? as state and federal deadlines loom for buying equipment that allows disabled voters to cast ballots without assistance. |
Victor Landa: Vote verification a matter of trust (San Antonio, TX) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, June 27, 2005 Here's a paradox not easily sorted out: On the day I voted in the recent mayoral runoff election, nearly all the voters in line with me at my precinct complained about the paper ballots used instead of the electronic voting machines. |
Johnson says state on-track for meeting federal reforms (Montana) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, June 27, 2005 Starting next year, information about every registered voter in Montana will be kept in a centralized database in Helena that election officials will be able to access through a few keystrokes. |
Voter machine bids show costs double that of funds (Northampton Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, June 27, 2005 Price quotes for federally required electronic voting machines have come in at twice as much as Northampton County has available for them. |
Voting system needs $6 million upgrade (Alameda Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, June 27, 2005 OAKLAND - Four years after Alameda County purchased its touch-screen voting system for $12 million, the manufacturer wants the county to sink nearly $6 million more into upgrades to meet pending state requirements that voters be given paper receipts confirming their votes. |
Public meeting set on voting machines (Bucks Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, June 26, 2005 With Bucks' Eisenhower-era voting machines on the way out, a new watchdog group wants to make sure the county ushers in the best possible replacements. |
County s election system (Wayne Co., MI) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, June 24, 2005 Wayne County is upgrading its election equipment to reduce the number of spoiled ballots and provide fast results for its 1.5 million registered voters. |
Voting soon to go high-tech (Nassau Co., NY) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, June 24, 2005 The voting machine's computer-generated voice is pleasant and encouraging: "Touch the screen to print a paper record of your ions," coos the AVC Edge Touch Screen. "After you cast your ballot, the word 'accepted' will be printed." |
County approves voting machine purchase (Nolan Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, June 24, 2005 After months of research about electronic voting machines, the Nolan County Commissioners have decided to purchase AutoMARK electronic voting machines for the county. |
Carteret voters plan to send a reminder to General Assembly (Carteret Co., NC) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, June 24, 2005 BEAUFORT - It's been eight months since more than 4,000 Carteret County voters learned the ballots they cast for the November 2004 election were never counted. |
Keep moving forward (West Orange, NJ) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, June 23, 2005 The freeholders took a bold step last week when they rejected a proposal to sell $7.5 million in bonds to underwrite the purchase of 700 new voting machines. What they did appears right, at this moment in time. They were being backed into a corner and asked to make a decision on what many freeholders considered to be inadequate information. And they refused. Good for them. |
N.C. Senate subcommittee agrees to voting machine changes Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, June 23, 2005 A Senate subcommittee approved a bill Thursday that would set aside $20 million more to help counties purchase voting machine equipment after expected federal and state standards go into effect. |
Parties should bear portion of primary cost, registrar says (Wise Co., WV) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, June 23, 2005 On the heels of a doubly busy primary election day, Wise County Registrar Tom Chester estimates it cost Wise County about $10,000 to process the votes of only 743 people. |
Democrats Say 2004 Election System Failed in Ohio (Ohio) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, June 23, 2005 Democratic Party officials charged yesterday that the election system in Ohio broke down in last year's presidential race, citing numerous problems that frustrated or disenfranchised voters while concluding there was no evidence of fraud in the outcome. The findings reignited a partisan debate that has colored efforts to improve voting procedures around the country. |
Pulling plug on levers (New York) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, June 23, 2005 ALBANY - When voters head into polling places throughout most of the state in 2006, they will see new electronic voting machines that will replace the levered system that has been in place for more than a century. |
Election board is left in limbo (Crawford Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, June 23, 2005 BUCYRUS Time is running out to make room for almost half a million dollars of new voting equipment scheduled for delivery before the middle of July. |
ES&S AutoMARK Receives Federal Qualification Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, June 23, 2005 ES&S AutoMARK Receives Federal Qualification; Breakthrough Ballot Marking Technology Helps States and Jurisdictions Achieve HAVA Compliance for Optical Scan Voting |
Contested Pasadena council race: Best of six? (Pasadena, Harris Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 22, 2005 A recount Tuesday of the Pasadena District C City Council race ended with the same one-vote difference. |
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