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Task force finds 'unacceptable' flaws in state election system; suggests 15 changes Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 2, 2005 OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) An election reform task force created by Gov. Christine Gregoire in the wake of her razor-thin margin of victory last year found that the public?s trust in the state?s election system was damaged by imperfections and mistakes that "are clearly unacceptable." |
Exit Poll Madness - Analyst Steve Freeman & Company Offer False Choice Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 2, 2005 Beware of exit polls and the analysts who study them. These folks would have us believe that exit polls tell the gospel truth. They even quote the duplicitous toe-sucking Dick Morris to make their case. "Exit polls are almost never wrong," Morris writes. The man is a known creep. |
Mississippi getting $34 million to modernize elections Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 1, 2005 LONG BEACH - This year will be the most important for election reform, Secretary of State Eric Clark said Monday night. |
Assemblywomen urge paper ballot Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 1, 2005 (March 1, 2005) ? ALBANY ? Two lawmakers concerned that the state might buy new voting machines that leave no paper trail on Monday urged the state instead to buy a system that uses paper ballots and optical scanners to count them. |
Restoring public trust in the election process Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 1, 2005 The debate over the 2004 governor's race is an opportunity to improve the way Washington votes. |
Lawmakers should reduce the governor's power over elections Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 1, 2005 Before considering Gov. Jeb Bush's request for more authority over county supervisors of elections, legislators should assess Florida's track record since 2001. That's when responsibility for election policy and administration was effectively transferred to the governor because he would appoint the secretary of state. |
We must defend voting rights in America, not just Iraq Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 1, 2005 This weekend in Selma, Ala., marchers will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in that city. The violence unleashed by Southern sheriffs and racial vigilantes on that day galvanized President Johnson to push through the Voting Rights Act, giving blacks the right to vote in the South for the first time since the brief reconstruction period after the Civil War. |
Votes might get paper receipts Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 1, 2005 A state lawmaker wants to create a paper trail of each vote cast on Georgia's electronic ballot machines, but the proposal may have to wait for federal action. |
New machine deadline fast approaching Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 1, 2005 Facing deadline pressure, Secretary of State Betty Ireland's office is almost ready to tell counties like Kanawha and Putnam the best ways to replace their old punch-card voting machines with more modern equipment. |
Unfunded mandates can have a devastating effect Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 1, 2005 You will at times have the occasion when the federal or state government will pass laws that pass mandates to county government. Most of the time it is the responsibility of the county governments to pay for these mandates out of county tax dollars. These types of laws are called "unfunded mandates." They often have a devastating effect on the budgets of the county governments that are responsible for implementing them. |
N.C. Legislature gives final approval to provisional vote law Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 1, 2005 RALEIGH, N.C. On the eve of a key court hearing, the General Assembly gave final legislative approval Tuesday to a provisional ballot bill that could bring lawmakers into contention with the courts. |
Ohio's Odd Numbers Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 28, 2005 Are the stories of vote suppression and rigged machines to be believed? Here is "non-wacko" evidence that something went seriously awry in the Buckeye State on Election Day 2004 |
Protecting America's Vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 28, 2005 Despite the fact that we were told that things went well in the 2004 elections, there was an unprecedented amount of voter fraud in various parts of the country. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ.), the Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee and thus a Member of the Senate leadership, has issued a paper entitled ?Putting an End to Voter Fraud? and its suggestions are surely worth considering. The Help America Vote Act, which was supposed to take care of a number of problems in the American election system when it was enacted in 2002, may have made matters worse. In any case, the Act comes up for renewal shortly and there are changes which ought to be made. |
Voting in America Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 28, 2005 In America, every vote should be counted correctly. Following the General Election on November 2, 2004, we have learned that there were numerous incidents of evoting machines malfunctioning and/or being tampered with and significant voter suppression. Congress is being asked to investigate. In the name of preserving democracy itself, the purpose of this article is to outline two courses of action which will help prevent future voting fraud in all 50 states: |
Clinton, Boxer pushing e-voting bill in Senate Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 28, 2005 FEBRUARY 28, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - A wide-ranging bill that, among other things, would mandate a voter-verified paper ballot for every vote cast in electronic voting machines has been introduced by Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). The Count Every Vote Act, they said, is needed to address shortcomings related to existing e-voting technology. |
Legislators and judges fight over election process Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 28, 2005 RALEIGH - A couple of years ago the N.C. Supreme Court ruled in a redistricting case that the General Assembly's new legislative districts were unconstitutional and had to be redone. |
A vote of confidence Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, February 27, 2005 JACKSONVILLE - It was the middle of Super Bowl week, but some people in this riverfront city had no interest in football. They wanted to talk about how the 2004 elections in Florida were run. |
Let the voters vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, February 27, 2005 Possibly the most important lesson learned from the 2004 presidential election is that showing up at the wrong precinct should not disenfranchise an otherwise qualified voter. |
The vote you cast may not be tallied. 1 out of 100 shown uncounted in 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, February 27, 2005 You read the newspapers, watch the candidates' debates, mull the issues with friends, and then you do your democratic duty: You vote. |
Outlook brightens for electronic-voting support Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, February 26, 2005 Chances have improved that Riverside County will be able to cover its costs for equipping 4,250 touch-screen voting machines with paper printers in time for 2006 elections, the county's registrar of voters said this week. |
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