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Election report on horizon Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 21, 2005 It's a high-tech world. Boulder County owns a high-tech voting system. However, a handful of high-tech local citizens believe the county should consider stepping back in time before tabulating the next election. |
TWENTY-THREE U.S. HOUSE MEMBERS SIGN ON TO Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 21, 2005 Sending a clear signal to the nation's voting machine companies, 23 U.S. House of Representative members signed on to a letter authored by Rep. Maxine Waters and Rep. John Conyers demanding transparency and accountability from the private companies which now run the public function of America's electoral system. |
Strategies in governor's contest now clearer Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 21, 2005 Dead people voted. Some felons cast ballots although their rights were not restored. And then there were legal votes possibly not counted. |
Congress should leave elections to the states Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 21, 2005 It has become quite fashionable to introduce federal legislation that changes the way we administer elections in this country. Members of this Congress have sponsored 10 election-reform bills since January. The problem with the new legislation, however, is that it has already been done. |
Understanding the difference between paper ballots and paper audit trails Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 21, 2005 With all the pending legislation in Congress designed to fix our electoral system, it is important for concerned citizens to learn and understand just what the bills would require and what they wouldn't. |
November 2004 Elections Do Not Represent a Full and Fair Vote Tally Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 21, 2005 Free and fair elections are indispensable to political freedom. Unfortunately, the election process in our state has been badly compromised, beginning a number of years ago according to some reports. |
Blackwell tells panel election went smoothly Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 21, 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio - The state's chief elections officer said Monday that Ohio's presidential election went as smoothly as possible, given the resources available and some last-minute interpretations by state and federal courts. |
Optical scanners should be wave of the future Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 20, 2005 The lever voting machine should become a thing of the past, the League of Women Voters of New York contends. |
Let voters chart future of elections Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 20, 2005 Now is a perfect time for Thurston County voters to decide whether to switch to all-mail elections. |
Legislature approves election reform bill Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, March 19, 2005 SANTA FE - An election reform bill backed by Gov. Bill Richardson cleared the Legislature with just hours remaining in the annual session. |
ID bill could make Georgia unique in turning away voters Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, March 19, 2005 A bill to require voters to present photo identification at the polls before casting a vote would give Georgia the country's most restrictive voter ID law. |
Audit: State voter system left information vulnerable Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, March 19, 2005 LANSING, Mich. (AP) State databases with confidential information from registered voters and driver's licenses in Michigan were not adequately secure and were vulnerable to computer hackers, state auditors said in a report released Friday. |
Opposition mounts to photo ID voting requirement Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, March 18, 2005 A Republican attempt to require picture IDs before people vote would put up barriers to a basic right, Georgia's top elections official said Friday. |
Newspaper report: 82 felons voted in Nov. 2 election Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, March 18, 2005 MILWAUKEE - At least 82 felons voted illegally in November's presidential election, a newspaper reported. |
PERSPECTIVE: Election reform proposals ignite clash over states rights Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, March 18, 2005 WASHINGTON - As Congress considers possible election reforms in light of another close presidential race, a fight is shaping up between lawmakers who want national standards and state officials, who maintain that running elections is a state right. |
Martinez's folly Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, March 18, 2005 City, state must thoroughly investigate mayoral election breakdown |
Herald Poll: Touch screen voting in Utah? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, March 18, 2005 Like it or not, voters, Utah's punch-card ballots are probably going away. Under the Help America Vote Act, it's just about time for Utah and other states to put away the Votamatics and the paper ballots and go electronic. It's coming sooner than you think 2006 is the federal deadline. |
New Briefing on Provisional Voting: "Solution or Problem? Provisional ballots in 2004" Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, March 18, 2005 Whether a provisional ballot was counted in last year's election depended nearly as much on where you lived as your status as a voter. A new report by the nonpartisan and non-advocacy electionline.org found that differing practices around the country in issuing and counting provisional ballots led to wide variations in the numbers fail-safe of ballots distributed and counted. |
States, counties quarrel over election rules; deadline approaches Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, March 18, 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Federal rules intended to improve voting have sparked repeated quarrels between states and counties over ballot counting and equipment as time runs out for compliance with the election law. |
Governor pulling for voter ID bill Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, March 18, 2005 Gov. Mitch Daniels said today he's hoping that the legislature does not again dissolve into partisan inaction, as lawmakers in the House prepare to vote on a controversial measure to require voters to show photo IDs at the polls. |
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