Butler Co. s e-voting machines (Butler Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, April 27, 2005 Janice Morse Cincinnati Enquirer 27 April 2005 HAMILTON - Computer touch-screen voting is coming to Butler County - and elections officials say they think voters will find the high-tech machines user-friendly, fast and accurate.
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New vote machines set on scan (Muskegon Co., MI) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, April 27, 2005 Steve Gunn Muskegon Chronicle 27 April 2005 Kimberly Grimm, election specialist at the Muskegon County clerk's office, is certain to get more sleep once optical-scan voting equipment is used throughout the county.
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Venango electronic voting system won't be in place by fall (Venango Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, April 27, 2005 JUDITH O. ETZEL The Derrick and News Herald 27 April 2005 Venango County voters won't be casting their election ballots electronically any time soon.
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What Can We the People Do About Election Fraud? Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, April 26, 2005 Ernest Partridge, The Crisis Papers 26 April 2005 During the two and a half years that The Crisis Papers has been on the web, we have posted hundreds of articles and links on our Election 2004 Fraud and Electoral Integrity pages. In addition I have written and published numerous essays about the issue, most recently just two weeks ago. On each occasion, I have received numerous letters telling me "I'm convinced that the elections are fraudulent," then asking, "now what can I do about it?"
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No choice made on voting machines (Clark Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, April 26, 2005 Diane Erwin Springfield News-Sun 26 April 2005 The Clark County Board of Elections will wait until next month to decide if voters will use an optical scan machine or an electronic touch-screen machine that was recently approved by Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell.
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Commission elects company to outfit county with voting machines (Wichita Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, April 26, 2005 Robert Morgan Times Record News 26 April 2005 Democratic Party Chair Bettye Tanner-Shelby is worried. County Judge Woody Gossom is hopeful. Both cast these polls Monday regarding a contract with Election Systems and Software to handle the county's elections.
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More mistakes revealed in ballot counting (Washington) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, April 26, 2005 David Postman and Keith Ervin Seattle Times 26 April 2005 In his first questioning under oath about the governor's election, King County Elections Director Dean Logan revealed additional errors in the handling of ballots and acknowledged that the county did not follow recommendations by its elections-oversight committee that were designed to avoid some of those very mistakes.
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New voting equipment on the way (Eaton Co., MI) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, April 26, 2005 AL WILSON Charlotte Shopping Guide 26 April 2005 CHARLOTTE - Election officials across Eaton County will be working throughout the spring and summer to bring more than $300,000 in new voting equipment online in time for this year's last two elections.
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Citizens panel on elections approved Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, April 26, 2005 GREGORY ROBERTS Seattle Post-Intelligencer 26 April 2005 A citizens oversight committee on elections was revived by the King County Council yesterday, activating a third probe of the troubled 2004 vote and the department that conducted it.
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Culver pushes for voter-verified ballot paper trail (Iowa) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, April 26, 2005 Bret Hayworth Sioux City Journal 26 April 2005 As lawmakers look to wrap up the legislative year by Friday, Iowa Secretary of State Chet Culver is asking them to pass legislation providing for a voter-verified paper trail for all new electronic voting machines.
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County: We'll go with paper ballots Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, April 26, 2005 J.D. Prose Beaver County Times 26 April 2005 BEAVER - Beaver County voters will use paper ballots in the May 17 primary even if the Pennsylvania Department of State quickly recertifies the Patriot touch-screen voting system, the county's elections chief said Monday.
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My Election 2004 bad dream (Opinion) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, April 26, 2005 JOSH MITTELDORF Philadelphia Daily News 26 April 2005 ON A RECENT flight to Nashville, I sat next to a man who asked what I was writing. Preparing a talk, I told him, for a conference of people sharing evidence that the 2004 presidential election was stolen. Without missing a beat, he asked. "Isn't that next door to the convention on UFO sightings?"
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AccuPoll Poised To Bring Back Confidence In The Vote Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, April 26, 2005 Myra Per-Lee The Lone Star Iconoclast 26 April 2005 TUSTIN, Calif. ? There?s a new voting machine company on the block. And it?s out there competing with the well-entrenched likes of Diebold and ES&S for the nods of your secretaries of state and local voter registrars.
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House passes bill on early voting, doesn't require paper trail (Florida) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, April 26, 2005 BRENT KALLESTAD Associated Press 27 April 2005 A measure that would limit early voting to eight hours a day in the two weeks before Election Day passed the House despite protests Tuesday from Democrats, who wanted to require a backup recorder for electronic touch screen machines.
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Carter Gets It ? But Will His Electoral Commission? Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, April 25, 2005 Kevin Zeese and Linda Schade FreePress.Org 25 April 2005 The best news coming out of the first hearing of the Carter-Baker Commission is that the co-chairs recognize that Americans are losing faith in their democracy, and that even in the 2004 presidential election ? among the most passionate elections in recent history ? 40% did not vote and, increasing numbers of voters lack confidence that their votes were counted as cast. The bad news is that a corporate conflict of interest of one member of the Commission raises doubts that they will recommend the common sense necessity ? voter verified paper ballots.
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Failing the Electoral Standards Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, April 25, 2005 Andrew Gumbel The Nation 25 April 2005 The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has been monitoring elections in emerging democracies ever since the fall of the Berlin wall, but now it has done something different and uniquely controversial. It has turned its attention to the United States, issuing a report that highlights numerous areas in which this past November's presidential and Congressional elections failed to meet international standards.
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Vote Fraud Theorists Battle Over Plausibility Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, April 25, 2005 Terry M. Neal Washington Post 24 April 2005 After my recent column on President Bush's popularity woes, a torrent of e-mail flooded in from angry Democrats insisting that Bush's relative lack of popularity only reinforced their belief that the 2004 election was stolen.
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Election Day 2006 will be difficult unless Legislature gets moving (New York) Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, April 25, 2005 Opinion Rochester Democrat and Chronicle 25 April 2005 (April 25, 2005) ? The efficiency and cooperation that led to New York's first on-time budget in 20 years must now spread to legislators' beleaguered attempts at voting reform. This state remains dead last in efforts to implement the federal Help America Vote Act, and time is running out.
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Panel: Pennsylvania's primary should be moved up Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, April 25, 2005 ALISON HAWKES The Intelligencer 25 April 2005 HARRISBURG - The state's primary election should be moved from May to early March in presidential years to give Pennsylvania greater weight in national elections, according to a task force convened by the governor to review the state's election law.
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Utah County to look for lower-cost voting option Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, April 25, 2005 Amie Rose Provo DAILY HERALD 25 April 2005 Utah County commissioners are trying to find a way to comply with federal law without spending millions on new voting machines.
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