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Voting glitches found in 6 recent elections Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 31, 2005 Electronic voting machines tossed out hundreds of ballots during this month's special election on slot machines and elections workers have traced the same computer error to five other municipal elections in the past 12 months. |
New voting machines are put through wringer Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 31, 2005 In her first election casting a ballot independently, Crystal Capizzo voted for Founding Fathers, literary giants and classic actors. |
Voting technology impresses Utahns Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 31, 2005 SANDY - Lapreal Marriam had never voted on a computer before Wednesday. |
Voters sample new election machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 31, 2005 About 700 voters stood in line some for an hour or more Wednesday to test drive voting machines from two companies that are competing for a state contract to replace all punch-card voting machines. |
Verified Voting Legislation Sweeping the States Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 31, 2005 San Francisco, CA - infoZine - Noting the landslide toward requirements for voter-verified paper ballots (VVPBs) in states across the country, VerifiedVoting.org today announced a renewed effort to lobby state legislators to pass bills guaranteeing reliable, secure, and publicly verifiable election systems. |
Panel on balloting change is named Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 30, 2005 VANCOUVER Clark County hopes to switch from punch-card ballots to an optical-scan system in time for September's primary. |
Voting machine advice irks county Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 30, 2005 Secretary of State Glenda Hood's elections office has advised Leon County to provide handicapped voters a touch-screen-voting system made by a company whose president caused a stir in last year's campaign by promising to help deliver Ohio to President Bush. |
Verify voting results Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 30, 2005 N.C. legislative leaders have done a good job tackling two of the thorniest problems stemming from last fall's general election. Both the House and Senate adopted bills that clarified the legislature's 2003 decision to allow qualified, properly registered voters to cast ballots out of their home precincts on Election Day. And lawmakers set up a formal process to hear contested statewide elections. Those laws will help assure that votes of North Carolinians will be counted and election disputes will be resolved. |
Mayoral race still not over Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 30, 2005 Republican Mayor Dennis Flood said yesterday he has decided to appeal a court ruling last week that appeared to hand the Irvington mayoral election to Democrat Erin Malloy by a single vote. |
Political Activists Emerge Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 30, 2005 Weeks before the November elections, a New York State voter with disabilities received notification that his usual polling site had been changed. Although the voter tried to make the necessary transportation arrangements, it was already too late. |
Liberal Bloggers Pounce on Voting Fraud Watchdog Group Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 30, 2005 (CNSNews.com) - A newly established group that is investigating and documenting registration and voting fraud during the 2004 election is suddenly under fire by a number of left-wing bloggers who are upset with the resumes of some of the group's members. |
States Take Up Photo IDs at Polls Debate Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 30, 2005 Legislation that would require voters to show photo identification before casting ballots has touched off fierce debate in three states, with opponents complaining the measures represent a return to the days of poll taxes and Jim Crow. |
Scientific Study on Exit Polls Released Tomorrow Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 30, 2005 Officially, President Bush won November's election by 2.5%, yet exit polls showed Kerry winning by 3% [1] . According to a report to be released March 31^st by a group of university statisticians, the odds of a discrepancy this large between the national exit poll and election results happening by accident are close to 1 in a million. |
Vaporizing votes Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 29, 2005 The US has no national and neutral organization that is responsible for administering and monitoring elections. Instead, voter registration and elections are organized county by county in a patchwork of private companies and state election bodies who interpret state and federal laws differently. |
Rusk County trims number of polling places Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 29, 2005 Rusk County commissioners agreed to cut the number of polling locations from 37 to 21 at a meeting Monday morning, a move that will save the county money and headaches, County Judge Sandra Hodges said. |
County weighs oversight plan for elections Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 29, 2005 In the aftermath of yet another troubled election, the King County Council is considering the creation of a permanent citizens committee to oversee how the county handles voting. |
N.Y. lawmakers should offer optical-scan mode as choice for local governments. Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 29, 2005 New York legislators face more than a budget deadline. Time also is running out on them to make a decision about new voting machines to replace the state's 20,000 lever-style dinosaurs now in use. |
BOT voters met with Internet voting problems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 29, 2005 Internet problems prompted the University Senate Council to add an extra week of voting for a faculty spot on the Board of Trustees in a meeting full of intense debate yesterday. |
Vote verification a big question with electronic machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 29, 2005 NEW BRITAIN As Connecticut prepares to unveil electronic voting machines in nine months, legislators, advocates and voters still have concerns about the safety, accuracy and accessibility of the upgrade in technology. |
Mystery Surrounds ?American Center For Voting Rights? Group Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 29, 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio ? A new voting rights group appeared last week, just in time to testify at U.S. Congressman Bob Ney?s (R-Ohio) House Administrative Committee hearings on the 2004 presidential election in Ohio. That state was fraught with voting inconsistencies, as documented by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) in reports to Congress earlier this year. |
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