Punch cards knocked out PORTER COUNTY: County could get new election equipment by August (Indiana) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 8, 2005 NWI Times. June 8, 2005. BY MATTHEW VAN DUSEN VALPARAISO | It's official: Porter County can choose its own election equipment.
The County Commissioners approved a contract on Tuesday with Omaha, Neb.-based Election System and Software to provide new voting machines for the county's 125 voting precincts. The county had until the end of this month to enter into a contract to buy voting machines that meet Help America Vote Act requirements or the state would have chosen the equipment.
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Result counting went later this time (San Antonio, Texas) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 8, 2005 San Antonio Express. 08 June 2005 By Elizabeth Allen, Express-News Staff Writer The choice of paper ballots over electronic votes appeared to slow election results Tuesday night, when 60 percent of the votes were posted by 10:37 p.m. ? and hung there in a hair-close mayoral race, for an hour.
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Commissioners Review Voting Options (Arkansas) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 8, 2005 The Morning News. 08 June 2005. By Joseph Askins BENTONVILLE Benton County will not have many choices in its transition to electronic voting next year, but county residents will have a chance this week to comment on how the Arkansas Secretary of State proceeds.
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Diebold Inc. gets Utah's vote. Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 8, 2005 Akron Beacon Journal. 08 june 2005. Diebold Inc. has landed a multimillion-dollar contract to supply Utah with touch-screen voting machines.
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Voter verification: County Council right to reject contract (Volusia County, Florida) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 8, 2005 News Journal Online. 08 June 2005. Opinion. A majority of the Volusia County Council took a tough, brave stance Monday on
behalf of disabled voters who deserve a self-verified paper record of their
ballot, just as other voters now have.
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County may buy 5,000 paper printers to verify electronic votes by 2006 (Riverside, CA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 8, 2005 NC Times. 08 June 2005. By: DAVE DOWNEY - Staff Writer RIVERSIDE The county expects to pump at least $15 million into elections next year, more than twice as much as it spent for that purpose in the fiscal year that is rapidly drawing to a close.
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State won't penalize Volusia for rejecting touch-screens (Florida) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 8, 2005 Orlando Sentinel. 08 June 2005. By Kevin P. Connolly, Sentinel Staff Writer DELAND The Volusia County Council's surprise rejection this week of touch-screen voting machines for disabled people has prompted anger, praise and curiosity, but County Chairman Frank Bruno was breathing a little easier after talking to state officials late Tuesday.
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Computer glitch delays Bucks election count County can't certify primary results until printouts corrected. (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 8, 2005 The Morning Call. 08 June 2005. By Hal Marcovitz Bucks County government's much-maligned computer system is at the bottom of another election mix-up.
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Election administrators envision smoother future for voting Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, June 7, 2005 Associated Press. 07 June 2005. By Robert Tanner The nation's election administrators say it's time to restructure elections to reflect the way Americans live, scrapping neighborhood precincts and Election Day for large, customer-oriented "vote centers" where people could cast ballots over a period of weeks.
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County chooses new voting system (Delaware Co. Indiana) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, June 7, 2005 The Star Press. 07 June 2005. By Rick Yencer MUNCIE - Despite objections from disabled voters, Delaware County
Commissioners, by a 2-1 vote, decided Monday on a new electronic voting system
that complies with federal law and will be first used in 2006.
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Officials envision 21st century elections Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, June 7, 2005 The Associated Press. June 7, 2005 The nation?s election administrators say it?s time to restructure elections
to reflect the way Americans live, scrapping neighborhood precincts and Election
Day for large, customer-oriented ?vote centers? where people could cast ballots
over a period of weeks.
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Council kills ballot machines (Volusia County, Florida) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, June 7, 2005 News Journal Online. June 7, 2005. By James Miller, staff writer DELAND County Council members didn't need a recount Monday, but they figured one day voters might.
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Delays at old jail force housing search for new voting system (Hidalgo Co, Texas) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, June 7, 2005 The Monitor. June 07,2005, by Victoria Hirschberg EDINBURG ? Renovation delays at the old jail have left the Hidalgo County Elections Department seeking other storage centers for its new, multi-million dollar voting system.
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Palm Beach County boosts elections budget by 35 percent. (Florida) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, June 7, 2005 Sun-Sentinel. 07 June 2005. By Anthony Man, Staff writer Palm Beach County commissioners questioned some of Supervisor of Elections Arthur Anderson's spending plans Monday, but ultimately went along with giving him a budget increase that would more than cover the new employees he wants to hire.
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Vendor's behavior should rile Blackwell (Lake Co, Ohio) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, June 7, 2005 News-Herald Editorial. June 7, 2005. There is something very, very strange about the way in which the hot button issue of voting machines is being manipulated in Ohio, and the manner in which Lake County is being treated by the Ohio secretary of state's office.
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Magistrate race among recounts. (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, June 7, 2005 Scranton Times 07 June 2005. BY BORYS KRAWCZENIUK STAFF WRITER The race for magisterial district judge in the Archbald area is among those where primary election results will be recounted.
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Blackwell asks for release of federal money (Ohio) Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, June 6, 2005 Associated Press. 06 June, 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Counties eager to get going with new voting-machine systems
should be able to begin their work soon.
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Money Available For New Voting Machines (Ohio) Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, June 6, 2005 Associated Press 06 June 2005. Counties eager to get going with new voting-machine systems will be able to begin their work soon. The state Controlling Board this afternoon released $115 million in federal money for counties to purchase the new systems mandated by federal law.
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Judge upholds election, rejects every GOP claim (Washington) Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, June 6, 2005 Seattle-Times. June 6, 2005. By David Postman WENATCHEE ? Judge John Bridges today upheld the election of Gov. Christine Gregoire, dismissing a Republican lawsuit and soundly rejecting claims that wrongdoing, fraud and felon voters robbed Dino Rossi of the election.
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Bev Harris's BlackBoxVoting Finds Voting Scan Machines Hackable Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, June 5, 2005 Matthew Cardinale OpEdNews 05 June 2005 Two new and startling discoveries announced by Bev Harris and BlackBoxVoting.org indicate that Diebold Optical Scan Machines are vulnerable to, and designed for, hacking that would modify the results of an election.
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