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Report Shows Problems With Montgomery Voting Machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 8, 2005 ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - A review of voting machines used in Montgomery County on Election day found that 7 percent of the machines had problems such as frozen screens or failed to boot up. |
Vote paper trail gains support Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 8, 2005 It's probably a question of when ? not whether ? Georgia's 24,000 electronic voting machines will produce a paper record of a voter's ballot. |
New York Is Last State to Seek Money for Voting Technology Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 8, 2005 ALBANY, March 7 - Because of legislative delay, New York lags behind all other states and territories in seeking its share of $2.3 billion in federal aid to modernize voting machines and other electoral technology, according to federal officials and state watchdog groups. |
The Velvet Revolution: Divestiture for Democracy Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 8, 2005 BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. ? A coalition of more than 87 citizen groups nationwide have united to address the problems created by secret vote-counting inside the newer electronic voting machines. Under the banner of the Velvet Revolution, mainstream and activist groups have organized to demand re-institution of vote-counting procedures so that all American citizens can verify with certainty that democracy is indeed working accurately. |
Governance Task Force approves Choice Voting recommendation Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 8, 2005 Davis may join the ranks of San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass. in adopting Choice Voting now that the Governance Task Force approved a recommendation to consider such methods at its Monday night meeting at the Davis Community Chambers. |
Midland County receives grant to meet election law Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 8, 2005 Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams announced Monday the county will receive $816,000 to help comply with federal Help America Vote Act. |
Republicans maneuvering to get Voting Rights Act killed Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 8, 2005 Beware the stranger bearing gifts. Or as the law teaches, caveat emptor, buyer beware. Look before you leap. All these warnings apply to the emerging Republican positioning on the Voting Rights Act. |
Senators hear public on voter ID bill Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 8, 2005 A fairly evenly divided group of constituents spoke in support of and in opposition to the proposed voter ID bill during a public hearing to the Senate Committee on Labor and Election Reform at the Brown County Public Library on Monday. |
Panel considers mail-only ballots Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 8, 2005 Pierce County will begin laying the groundwork Wednesday on deciding whether all voters should be required to vote by mail. |
Legal filing highlights Blackwell's hypocrisy in Ohio recount case Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 8, 2005 A spokesman for the Green Party's 2004 presidential campaign, which initiated the Ohio recount, today blasted the suggestion by Ohio's Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell that he would need to take depositions from John Kerry and John Edwards as part of the Ohio recount litigation. |
The sun revolves around the Earth and George W. Bush won the election in Ohio Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 8, 2005 The Bush family and friends stole both the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections. The covert operations long associated with George Herbert Walker Bush, former President and CIA director, are now overtly practiced in key battleground states. |
Emerging Scandal on MD Voting Machine Performance Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 8, 2005 Under Investigation for Widespread Statewide Election Day 2004 Failures MD Election Group Calls for Independent Investigation and De-Certification of Machines |
Legislature tries again to resolve voting system dispute Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 7, 2005 ALBANY, N.Y. Ten New York state lawmakers sat down Monday in the latest attempt to resolve differences over how to comply with the federal Help America Vote Act and bring new voting machines to the state. They didn't. |
Palm Beach County's elections chief is ready for first trial Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 7, 2005 Two months after taking over an elections office whose previous chief he denounced as incompetent, Arthur Anderson is confident Tuesday's voting will come off without a hitch. |
Paper or, uh, plastic? County voters to have choice of paper or electronic ballots Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 7, 2005 Soon, candidates won't be the only choice for Milam County voters when they go to the polls. |
Hale County votes in court Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 7, 2005 The voting controversy in Hale County has begun having its day in court. Montgomery circuit court judge William Shashy called an emergency court session for Friday morning to begin legal proceedings in Vanessa Hill's contest of J.B. Washington's election to the Greensboro mayor's office. |
Vote for change Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 6, 2005 Following the noisy debates over voting technology during the 2004 election, companies that make electronic voting machines are trying to plan a strategy for the future. |
Counties busy preparing for elections Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 6, 2005 OQUAWKA, Ill. ? Next month's election won't represent the busiest Henderson County Clerk Marcella Cisna has experienced, but it will be one of the more complicated. |
Election's bad taste lingers for many Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 6, 2005 Dave Schmidt calls them the "129 blades of grass on a baseball diamond." They are the margin of difference in the Nov. 2 governor's race and the cause of the election reform madness gripping Olympia. |
For an independent Secretary of State Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 6, 2005 Gov. Jeb Bush and state election officials have gotten off to a bad start in an attempt to rewrite Florida's election laws. Two draft proposals, written by the governor's office and Secretary of State Glenda Hood, would shift power to the state from local election officials, including the authority to file criminal charges against local supervisors who don't follow the rules. That's not a good idea, and it shouldn't be allowed to stand. |
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