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In Mason County: Upgrade for voting machines planned (Kentucky) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 29, 2005 Counties across the state are struggling to bring voting polls into compliance not only under the American with Disabilities Act but also under the Help America Vote Act of 2002. |
State may consider new voting system (Texas) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 29, 2005 The people who run elections in Texas in big counties have liked early voting enough that they'd like to try the system on election day. That's because the early voting system allows voters to vote at a number of places within their county other than their home precinct. |
Prosecutors to challenge 110 voters (King Co., WA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 29, 2005 King County prosecutors will challenge the registrations of 110 more voters they allege are felons who should not be voting. |
Election proposals aren't voter-friendly (Florida) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 29, 2005 Election bills in the House and Senate that would amend Florida's voting seem designed to discourage voting rather than encourage it. That's the wrong approach. Collectively, the bills would make voting more difficult. One proposal, for example, would require voters to present a picture ID. Without the ID, they would have to cast a provisional vote. Lawmakers should remember the lesson from America's Jim Crow past about making voting easier, not more difficult. |
Lawyers sue over Snohomish County?s electronic voting machines (Washington) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 29, 2005 In many ways, last year?s doomsayers were right: In the November election, electronic voting machines across the nation added votes, lost votes, broke down and switched votes. |
3 counties here choose paper ballots (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, April 28, 2005 HARRISBURG With still no word from the state on the reliability of a touch-screen voting system, three Western Pennsylvania counties have decided to use paper ballots in the May 17 primary election. |
AP INTERVIEW: Diebold CEO: Spotlight on E-voting business waning Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, April 28, 2005 CANTON, Ohio - The leader of touch-screen voting machine maker Diebold Inc. said on Thursday that he believes the now extinguished spotlight of last year's contentious presidential election will help stabilize the company's elections machine business. |
Porter County election officials should vote for paper ballots (Porter Co., IN) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, April 28, 2005 The issue: Elections Our opinion: As Porter County replaces its voting machines, it should make sure that there is a paper record in case it is needed for a recount. |
New voting machines would help disabled (Wharton Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, April 28, 2005 WHARTON - The Wharton County could have 26 new voting machines by November. |
Pierce County reveals uncounted votes (Pierce Co., WA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, April 28, 2005 The votes of 50 Pierce County voters were mistakenly left out of the tally for the November election because workers overlooked ballots earmarked for machine tabulation, county Auditor Pat McCarthy said yesterday. |
County examines election machines (Midland Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, April 28, 2005 As soon as this fall, Midland voters might be able to cast their ballots with the help of a breath device, touch screen and other state-of-the-art features. |
Critics Want Electronic Vote Proposals Tossed (Connecticut) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, April 28, 2005 There were no protest signs or chanting throngs, just a few mild-mannered professionals gathered in the upper meeting room at Edmond Town Hall Wednesday evening. But the gauntlet that was thrown down may have far-reaching implications in relation to the way Connecticut voters regard the future integrity of local, state, and federal elections. |
Don?t Trust, Even If You Verify (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, April 28, 2005 The prospect that Pennsylvania may re-certify the electronic voting machines recently de-certified for Beaver, Mercer and Greene counties has paper-ballot advocates from all over the country in arms ? not to mention the local activists who cheered the state?s original move. |
How Blackwell and Petro Saved Bush?s Brain: And the rise of the right wing juggernaut in Ohio Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, April 27, 2005 The hotly disputed results of the 2004 presidential election have become entangled in a fundamentalist crusade over who will control Ohio. Extremist right wing screachers such as Pastor Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church, Ann Coulter, Alan Keyes, Ohio gubernatorial candidate J. Kenneth Blackwell and followers of Jerry Falwell, have taken center pulpit in an escalated war over what really happened when George W. Bush was allegedly re-elected in November, 2004, and who will occupy the Buckeye Statehouse in 2006. |
The franchise (Augusta Co., VA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, April 27, 2005 It's been shown that electronic-voting machines favor Republicans (especially apparent in the last presidential election and the California recall in 2003). UniLect machines have just been discovered to spit out different results depending on how they're programmed. Leave it to the CEO of UniLect to make that clear to elections officials in Pennsylvania. |
Voters in primary will pick a party (Virginia) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, April 27, 2005 Virginians who go to the polls in the June 14 primaries will have to tell a precinct official whether they want to vote Democratic or Republican. They won't be able to do both. |
Paper ballots a quick fix (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, April 27, 2005 Voters in three Western Pennsylvania counties will not use touch-screen voting machines for the May primary even if the state recertifies the machines. |
County nears decision on purchase of new voting machines (Wabash Co. IL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, April 27, 2005 In the steps of obtaining a mandatory new voting system for 2006, County Clerk Marie Kolb informed the Wabash County Board of Commissioners Monday of what will need to be paid for the new voting devices after the county receives federal funding. |
Salem BOE candidate wants a new election (Salem, NJ) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, April 27, 2005 SALEM A city woman who narrowly lost her race for the Salem Board of Education said that she would ask a state judge to order a new election. |
County finds few options for voting machines (Utah Co., UT) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, April 27, 2005 A Utah County study has found only one of four possible alternatives to direct-recording electronic voting machines meets federal voting standards but the county's quest to find a cheaper voting system continues. |
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