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State board approves Diebold (Ohio) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, May 10, 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio - A state board on Tuesday approved Diebold Election Systems' touch-screen voting machines for use in Ohio. The state elections chief still must sign off on the machines, which a rival company is trying to block in court. |
Blackwell put off decision on machines (Ohio) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, May 10, 2005 Columbus- Secretary of State Ken Blackwell knew for more than a month that he would impose the January voting-machine decree that sent machine vendors and county elections boards scrambling. |
Ballot legislation helps ensure voter confidence (West Virginia) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, May 9, 2005 Members of the Legislature and Secretary of State Betty Ireland are to be commended for their support of legislation requiring a paper ballot for any electronic voting machine used in West Virginia. Requiring a voter-verifiable paper ballot is the simplest way to provide election officials with a paper backup to recover voters? intents and protect the integrity of our elections. |
Discrepancies found in votes, signatures Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, May 8, 2005 A study by a member of the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition found frequent discrepancies between the number of votes cast and signatures collected by poll workers in the November general election. |
Voters in some counties going back in time (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, May 8, 2005 It's back to the future for Greene County in the May 17 primary election with a combination of hand-marked but machine-read ballots replacing a controversial electronic touch-screen system. |
Push to replace voting machines spurs confusion Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, May 8, 2005 WASHINGTON ? Election officials across the nation are scrambling to meet a Jan. 1 deadline to replace outmoded voting machines with equipment that is supposed to be more accurate. But a controversy over the reliability of computerized voting machines continues to cloud their decisions. |
No vote yet on touch-screen machines (Ohio) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, May 7, 2005 Columbus - After it was touted as the only voting machine around that has passed all the pivotal state and federal tests, Diebold's new touch-screen device ran into a snag Friday. |
Diebold machine held up by state regulators (Ohio) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, May 7, 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Less than a week before a certification deadline imposed by the secretary of state, Diebold's new touch-screen voting machine still has not been approved by the state. |
Editorial: Mail-in voting merits a look (Ventura Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, May 7, 2005 Ventura County politicians looking for votes may soon hear residents saying, "The ballot is in the mail." Under Assembly Bill 867 winding its way through the Legislature, Ventura County would be one of seven counties in the state to conduct elections entirely by mail. If approved, AB867 would do away with polling places and voting booths and, instead, require all voters to either mail their ballots to the elections division or deliver them to designated -off locations. |
New York slows to embrace new voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, May 7, 2005 ALBANY ? They're cheap, easy to store and provide voters peace of mind, advocates say. So why haven't New York lawmakers rushed to embrace a new type of pencil-and-paper voting machine called the "optical scan?" |
Primary 2005: Greene voters to get paper ballots (Greene Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, May 7, 2005 Regardless of whether the state recertifies its voting machines in time for the May 17 primary, Greene County voters will be marking paper ballots. |
Public involved in voting machines ion (Utah) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, May 6, 2005 I read with interest the recent article in the Daily Herald by Kathy Dopp of Utah Count Votes. Let me set the record straight. |
Count the ways state is dysfunctional (New York) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, May 6, 2005 Before the governor and Legislature go too far in crowing about an on-time budget removing the "most dysfunctional" label, they should hold on. Proof positive: New York is the only state in the nation that hasn't put in place a plan to reform its way of counting votes, implementing a new federal law that was enacted following the 2000 presidential vote counting disaster in Florida. If that's not dysfunctional, what is? |
Election officials OK touch screens (Lucas Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, May 6, 2005 The Lucas County Board of Elections yesterday chose touch-screen machines with paper receipts as the voting equipment of choice. |
Elections office getting e-voting machines (Osceola Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, May 6, 2005 Osceola County?s share to upgrade its voting equipment with 115 touch-screen machines to comply with Florida statute is $154,266. |
Registrars, Town Clerk Concerned About Electronic Voting Costs (Connecticut) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, May 5, 2005 "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," seems to be the mantra coming from Newtown officials who are waiting patiently as the state decides what to do about the apparent impending implementation of new electronic voting terminals. While both the Republican and Democrat registrars of voters and the town clerk understand the need to bring greater accountability to the voting process, all have stated they will hate to see the day existing decades-old mechanical voting machines are retired. |
Voters find optimal efficiency with optical scan (Michigan) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, May 5, 2005 For more than 600 counties in Michigan, mid-April signified the finalization of second-round purchase orders by the state to introduce the optical scan voting system. |
Albany must act to help N.Y.ers vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, May 5, 2005 After the Bush-Gore meltdown in Florida in 2000, Congress set new election standards and came up with money to help states upgrade their voting systems. Four years later, New York is the only state that has failed to comply with the law, putting $220 million in federal funds at risk. |
Gridlock risks $219M in voting-reform funds (New York) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, May 5, 2005 ALBANY State lawmakers resuscitated the debate for voting reform yesterday, faced with a use-it-or-lose-it deadline to spend $219 million in federal funds to implement the measures before the 2006 elections. |
New Voting Machines. Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, May 5, 2005 Charleston, SC - New voting machines make their mark on the Lowcountry. |
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