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For Voting Machines We Can Trust (4 Letters) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 14, 2005 To the Editor: Re "Virtues of Optical-Scan Voting" (editorial, March 9): |
County voting chief: Inquiry supports staff Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 14, 2005 Embattled King County Elections Director Dean Logan has some new answers as he faces another round of tough questioning from County Council members today. |
Paper or personnel problems? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 14, 2005 The 2004 election counting process in Boulder County slowed to a grinding halt shortly after the polls closed Nov. 2. Bewildered election officials searched for reasons why. |
Demand to follow vote act grows Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 14, 2005 ALBANY - While machine manufacturers are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying the state Legislature to bring ATM-style, touch-screen voting to New York, there is pressure mounting to consider a simpler technology. |
The Pennsylvania Voters Coalition Releases Election Day 2004 Analysis Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 14, 2005 HARRISBURG, Pa., March 14 /PRNewswire/ The Pennsylvania Voters Coalition (PVC) has released its Election Day 2004 Analysis which can be found on the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania website at http://pa.lwv.org/. The report is based on thousands of reports from voters throughout the state to telephone help-lines. Despite national and state efforts under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) much more needs to be done to protect Pennsylvanians' right to vote. The report evaluates how the election system performed in several critical areas, identifies problems and makes recommendations for corrective actions. |
Voter coalition critiques '04 election in Pa. Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 14, 2005 HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania needs to streamline its voter registration system, simplify its absentee balloting process and train poll workers better, according to a coalition of advocacy groups that sifted through thousands of voter complaints from November's presidential election. |
Paper trail for voting not a cure Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 13, 2005 Georgians may be getting something more than an "I'm A Georgia Voter" sticker when they walk away from their voting machines, if proposed legislation making its way through the General Assembly earns approval of the state's lawmakers. |
Pennsylvania counties fumble voting study Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 13, 2005 County election offices representing close to half of Pennsylvania's registered voters failed to respond to a post-Election Day survey, hampering a first-ever federal assessment of voting in the United States. |
Stop dawdling on federal election aid Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 13, 2005 The machinery of the State Legislature is even more clunky and outmoded than New York's lever-operated voting machines. These antiques are in danger of becoming as dysfunctional as the legislature that has failed to tap the federal dollars to replace them. That failure is way beyond unacceptable. |
L.A. re-inked votes Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, March 12, 2005 Without informing mayoral challengers, Los Angeles City Clerk Frank Martinez ordered election workers Tuesday night to use blue highlighter pens to re-ink thousands of voters' ballots that had "bubbles" partially or faintly filled in, the Daily News learned Friday. |
State sued over voting machine picks Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, March 12, 2005 A voting machine company filed suit Friday challenging its exclusion from the competition for a $49 million state contract. |
Bisignano makes runoff by 1 vote, at least for now Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, March 12, 2005 Redondo Beach mayoral hopeful Gerard Bisignano started off his weekend with the reassuring news that one lonely vote earned him a spot in a May 17 runoff against former City Councilman Mike Gin. |
Records raise new questions about 40 voters Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, March 12, 2005 Forty voters who improperly put their provisional ballots through polling-site counting machines in King County during the Nov. 2 governor's election were credited with casting additional votes, county records released yesterday indicate. |
More jumbled election numbers Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, March 12, 2005 A close accounting of King County polling-place records failed to resolve hundreds of discrepancies between the number of ballots cast and the number of voters who signed up to vote Nov. 2, elections officials acknowledged yesterday. |
About 600 Medford ballots cast in November ignored Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, March 12, 2005 MEDFORD - About 27 percent of all votes cast in Medford during the Nov. 2 election were not counted because a programmer improperly set the device that records the ballots, officials say. |
Volusia balks at paperless voting system Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, March 11, 2005 When Volusia County elections officials had to recount votes after the 2000 presidential election, they had ballots they could hold in their hands. |
County vetoes touch-screens Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, March 11, 2005 DELAND Foes of paperless voting scored a surprising victory Thursday after County Council members derailed plans to buy 210 touch-screen machines for disabled voters in Volusia a move that could reverberate across Florida as a deadline looms. |
Democracy is stronger if more citizens participate Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, March 11, 2005 There's no right to vote enshrined in the Constitution, but it's certainly enshrined in the national psyche. We moan when voter turnout declines, and exult when other nations - most recently Iraq - use the ballot box to shape their political destinies. |
Orlando mayor, judge surrender in election probe Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, March 11, 2005 ORLANDO Mayor Buddy Dyer, his campaign manager, a Circuit Court judge and a campaign consultant to both officials surrendered Friday on a felony charge that they paid for the collection absentee ballots. |
Teresa Heinz Kerry - Hacking the "Mother Machine"? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 10, 2005 "Two brothers own 80 percent of the [voting] machines used in the United States," Teresa Heinz Kerry told a group of Seattle guests at a March 7, 2005 lunch for Representative Adam Smith, according to reporter Joel Connelly in an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Connelly noted Heinz Kerry added that it is "very easy to hack into the mother machines." |
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