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Missing ballots found, no change in results (Jamestown, RI) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 22, 2005 JAMESTOWN The 12 ballots that were missing in last week's election recount were found yesterday inside one of the voting machines. |
More vote machine talk slated (Volusia Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 22, 2005 With little separating Volusia County from a high-profile voting rights lawsuit, the County Council will meet again to discuss voting machines for people with disabilities. |
In Ohio Vote, Woes, Yes, Fraud, No Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 22, 2005 WASHINGTON, June 22 - A five-month study for the Democratic National Committee found that more than one in four Ohio voters experienced problems at the polls last fall, , but the study did not find evidence of widespread election fraud that might have contributed to President Bush's narrow victory there. |
Political junkies need not be night owls (British Columbia) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 22, 2005 Anxious observers of Kamloops politics can hit the sack earlier this election day than in past elections. |
Albany Closer to Agreement on New Voting Machines (New York) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 22, 2005 ALBANY, June 21 - State officials zeroed in Tuesday on a final agreement on a long-sought overhaul of New York's aging election system. The deal would pave the way for the replacement of the antiquated voting machines now prevalent throughout New York. |
Board delays voting system (Forsyth Co., NC) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 22, 2005 The Forsyth County Board of Elections voted yesterday to keep its options open as it faces a looming deadline to buy new electronic-voting machines. |
Stand firm Diebold Deal Wrong For Volusia (Volusia Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 22, 2005 Four Volusia County Council members are under heavy-duty pressure to change their votes against paying nearly $800,000 for 210 voting machines equipped to help some voters with disabilities. These council members should stand their ground. The valid point is: Voters with disabilities deserve the same guarantees as ordinary voters the right to verify the accuracy of their votes before their votes are cast |
Touch screen not best choice for disabled voters (Volusia Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 22, 2005 A key point seems to have been lost in the varying and various arguments for and against touch-screen voting machines. The spirit and intent of the accessible voting law are to allow every disabled person the opportunity to cast his or her vote in private. The key word in the preceding sentence is "every." It is not acceptable to accommodate some of the disabled community and expect the rest of us to live with "business as usual." That is discrimination, and it is not legal. |
Blacks had 2 times the problems at polls in 2004 than whites, report states (Ohio) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 22, 2005 COLUMBUS | Black voters reported twice as many problems at the polls than whites in the 2004 presidential election in Ohio, according to a new report by the Democratic National Committee. |
Bungling the vote (Ohio - DNC Report) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 22, 2005 June 23, 2005 | About 5 million Ohio citizens went to the polls on Election Day in 2004 and 28 percent of them more than a million voters, many of them African-Americans experienced some kind of difficulty casting a ballot. This statistic, perhaps not surprising to people who have been poring over irregularities in November's presidential vote, was highlighted in a comprehensive new report on Ohio's election, commissioned by the Democratic National Committee. |
New voting machines purchased for county voters (Wise Co., VA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, June 21, 2005 Voters in Wise County will be using new voting machines at all of the county's 12 polling locations in November. |
Optical scan voting fans seek support (New York) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, June 21, 2005 Supporters of optical scan voting machines that read paper ballots plan a county-by-county lobbying campaign as counties prepare to choose new voting systems. |
Flagler votes for touch-screens (Flagler Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, June 21, 2005 BUNNELL Touch-screen voting machines soon will be installed in Flagler County, despite critics lambasting the devices as unreliable because they don't create paper ballots that can be recounted. |
Voting machine deadline waived (New York) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, June 21, 2005 ALBANY State lawmakers reached a tentative deal Monday to give local boards of elections an extra year to replace their lever voting machines as required by the 2002 Help America Vote Act, setting New York up for a possible loss of millions of dollars in federal funding. |
Senators question e-voting paper trail Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, June 21, 2005 JUNE 21, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Calls for the U.S. government to mandate a voter-verified paper trail with electronic voting machines ran into opposition today from two powerful members of a Senate committee, with one senator objecting that a printout would discriminate against blind people. |
From town meeting: Consider vote tabulating machines (Lincolnville, ME) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, June 21, 2005 LINCOLNVILLE (June 21, 2005): Editor's note: The following remarks were prepared by Tom Sadowski for the Lincolnville Town Meeting on Saturday, June 18. He wished to respond to Article 35, which sought $6,500 to purchase a vote tabulating machine. The measure passed. |
N.C. senators take up voting machine reform bill Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, June 21, 2005 RALEIGH, N.C. Senators complained Tuesday about a proposal that would require all voting machines in North Carolina to generate some kind of paper record of each ballot, saying counties may have to pay millions of dollars themselves for equipment upgrades. |
County gets nearly $1 million to make ballot upgrades (Napa Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, June 20, 2005 Napa County will get nearly $1 million in long-awaited federal funds to aid in the transition to electronic touchscreen voting machines, ramped up voter education efforts and improved access to voter registration rolls. |
Observers say Miami-Dade election supervisors? ouster was a quiet coup (Miami-Dade Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, June 20, 2005 When Miami-Dade County Manager George Burgess appointed Lester Sola as the county's new supervisor of elections, it was with little fanfare. |
Commissioners OK precinct changes (Sandoval Co., NM) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, June 20, 2005 The Sandoval County Commissioners voted to split four voting precincts in Rio Rancho at Thursday's meeting. |
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