Next year it's punch, press or pull (Highland Co., VA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 15, 2005 CALVIN R. TRICE Richmond TIMES-DISPATCH 15 June 2005 Voters in Highland County are the last in Virginia to cast pencil-only ballots. But this will be the last year that locals can vote only by marking boxes.
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Prevent election fiascoes Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 15, 2005 Opinion Joseph Waymack, N.C. Coalition for Verified Voting 15 June 2005 A voting nightmare revealed its ugly head here in North Carolina last November. Counties with paperless voting systems were plagued with problems.
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Election-day registration, new technologies in works for 2006 (Montana) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 15, 2005 MIKE DENNISON Great Falls Tribune 15 June 2005 HELENA ? It's a while until the next Election Day, but state voting officials already are prepping for some major changes, including the first-ever chance for Montanans to register and vote on the same day.
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Task force to push for vote centers (Colorado) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 15, 2005 GARY HARMON The Daily Sentinel 15 June 2005 A task force will recommend that Mesa County replace Election Day voting at 82 precincts with balloting at 22 voter centers scattered around the Grand Junction metro area and the county?s far-flung communities.
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EDITORIAL/ Consolidation makes sense (Neshoba Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 15, 2005 The Neshoba Democrat 15 June 2005 Neshoba County can successfully consolidate its 38 voting precincts. Two separate plans to reduce the number of voting precincts in each of the five supervisory districts were taken under advisement by the Board of Supervisors last week, mostly in an effort to comply with the federally mandated Help America Vote Act by January 2006.
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Freeholders deny funds for paperless voting machines (Essex Co., NJ) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 15, 2005 PAUL BRUBAKER The Montclair Times 15 June 2005 A crowd of voters? rights activists that included many Montclair residents was delighted when the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders voted down a $7.5 million bond ordinance to buy new digital record electronic (DRE) voting machines.
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Report spreads blame for voting ills (Colorado) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, June 14, 2005 Denver Post. 14 June 2005. By George Merritt, Staff Writer Boulder County - A committee investigating what went wrong in last November's elections laid blame on a "perfect storm" of problems - from a quagmire of federal and state regulations to voting-machine problems and activist interference.
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Commissioners recommend voting-machine option to state (Arkansas) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, June 14, 2005 Northwest Arkansas' News Source. 14 June 2005. By Serina Wilkins Staff Writer BENTON COUNTY ? New state-mandated voting machines should arrive in Benton County by early December.
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Vote-recount probe raises some issues Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, June 12, 2005 The Arizona Republic. 12 June 2005, By Nedra Lindsey A Maricopa County Attorney's Office investigation has revealed inaccuracies and problems associated with a controversial vote recount that decided a race for the state House.
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Congress called on to fix problems Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, June 12, 2005 Toledo Blade. June 12, 2005. By ANN McFEATTERS, BLADE WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF WASHINGTON ? Nearly five years after the 2000 election chaos, angry citizen
groups are still storming Capitol Hill demanding change, task forces and special
commissions are still churning out reports on fraud, and lawmakers are still
vowing ?never again? will America show the world elections marred by voting
irregularities.
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By touch or scan, a new way to vote (Virginia) Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, June 12, 2005 Times-Dispatch. 12 June, 2005. BY TYLER WHITLEY,TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Residents of Richmond and Chesterfield County will vote on new machines in Tuesday's primary. In Richmond, think touch screen and an ATM. In Chesterfield, think fill in the ovals and SAT.
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Beaver County Judicial Race - Lawsuit demands a recount Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, June 11, 2005 Beaver County Times Online. 06/11/2005 by J.D. Prose, Times Staff BEAVER - Beaver County Assistant District Attorney Kim Tesla joined seven other county residents Friday to file a lawsuit against the county's board of elections and elections director demanding a manual recount of the Democratic primary race for judge.
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Miami County making way for new voting machines (Ohio) Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, June 10, 2005 Dayton Daily News. 10 June 2005 By Nancy Bowman Board of Election members Thursday tackled a number of logistical questions associated with the 388 electronic machines, including finding a secure, climate-appropriate storage area.
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New concerns about electronic voting machines being hacked Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, June 10, 2005 10News. 10 June 2005. By:Mike Deeson Tampa, Florida - As voters were going to the polls this past fall some were
raising concerns about electronic machines, but supervisors of elections
officials throughout the state said there was no worry.
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An Important Election Safeguard Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, June 10, 2005 New York Times Editorial. Published: June 10, 2005 There are many problems with American elections, but none more serious than the rise of paperless electronic voting, whose results cannot be trusted. Grass-roots reformers are in the middle of a two-day lobbying blitz on Capitol Hill in support of a House bill that would require that electronic voting machines in federal elections produce voter-verifiable paper records. It is an important measure that should be passed without delay.
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Volusia's 'no' to touch-screens on state's radar (Florida) Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, June 10, 2005 Orlando Sentinel. 10 June 2005 by Kevin P. Connolly DELAND The state Attorney General's Office confirmed Thursday that it is looking into Volusia County's rejection of controversial touch-screen voting machines devices aimed at allowing disabled voters to cast ballots independently.
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State expected to OK new voting system (California) Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, June 10, 2005 Daily Review Online. 10 June 2005. By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER In less than a week, state officials are poised to approve a new Diebold electronic-voting system that several large counties, including Alameda, want to use. But the system showed problems in security, protection of voter privacy and printing of a paper trail during testing this spring.
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NEW VOTING STANDARDS TO BE RELEASED THIS WEEK, WEEK OF JUNE 9-15, 2005 Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, June 10, 2005 The Wilmington Journal. 10 June, 2005. by HAZEL TRICE EDNEY WASHINGTON (NNPA) ? New voting machine standards to be released this week are designed to prevent a recurrence of Election 2000-like debacles in congressional and senatorial races next year. However, activists and rights advocates say they are more concerned about the new machines that are supposed to correct the problem than old ones with proven flaws.
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Equipment test under fire - Manufacturer says its voting system may now be vulnerable (Florida) Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, June 10, 2005 Tallahassee Democrat. 10 June 2005. By Bill Cotterell, DEMOCRAT POLITICAL EDITOR An attorney for the company that makes Leon County's voting equipment told
state and county officials Thursday it was "very foolish and irresponsible" for
Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho to let an outside group try poking holes in
vote-tabulation security systems.
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Diebold calls for investigation of Leon County voting machines Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, June 9, 2005 Tallahasee Democrat. 9 June 2005 Accusing Leon County Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho of "gross negligence" for allowing an outsider to test the county's voting equipment, Diebold Election Systems Inc. has called for an investigation to make sure the machines haven't been compromised.
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