Governor reveals vote ID package Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, February 15, 2005 Shea Andersen Albuquerque Tribune 15 February 2005 SANTA FE - The dam on voter identification might be ready to burst onto the floor in the Roundhouse.
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Touch screen voting flawed in Mercer County Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, February 15, 2005 Bill Toland, The Post-Gazette 16 February 2005 HARRISBURG Until 2 p.m. yesterday, Jack Gerbel's demonstration of his UniLect touch screen voting system was going smoothly. Then, suddenly, the screen froze up, unresponsive to numerous finger-pokes from Gerbel and a bystander.
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Bill Seeks to Fix E-voting Flaws Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, February 14, 2005 Grant Gross ComputerWorld 14 February 2005 FEBRUARY 14, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - A group of U.S. lawmakers last week introduced a bill to require that electronic touch-screen voting machines allow a voter-verifiable paper trail.
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States fall behind on voting-system improvements Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, February 14, 2005 Jim Drinkard, USA TODAY 14 February 2005 WASHINGTON ? Repairs to the nation's voting system, already long overdue, are likely to remain uncompleted by the 2006 congressional elections, top state election officials warn.
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Report: Fixes saved 1M votes in 2004 Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, February 14, 2005 Robert Tanner Associated Press 14 February 2005 Improvements to voting machines and election administration saved a million votes that otherwise would likely have gone uncounted in the 2004 elections, with states and counties that made the most comprehensive upgrades recovering the most votes, a new academic analysis says.
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Election issue: No decision soon Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, February 14, 2005 Associated Press 14 February 2005 OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) The legal challenge to the governor's election won't be resolved until June at the earliest, a former Supreme Court justice says.
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Gaston count took extra care Story Here Archive |
KAREN CIMINO Charlotte Observer 13 February 2005 It didn't matter how long it took, they just had to get it right this time.
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Blackwell's decisions are raising red flags Story Here Archive |
Editorial News-Herald 13 February 2005 Ohio voters, take care. There is a man in Columbus who wants to be your next governor. You'd better give very careful consideration to some of his recent actions before you think about him holding so high an office. This is not to say, this early in the game, he is unqualified to be governor. That would be manifestly unfair to a person as bright as he is. He might, in fact, possess political and leadership skills that could be just what are needed in the governor's office. But a couple of recent decisions he has made should, at the very least, raise warning flags that his holding the state's highest office could be going a step too far.
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Mini-voting machine under study Story Here Archive |
JENNIFER LEARN-ANDES Times-Leader 12 February 2005 The latest electronic voting machine trotted out before a ion committee Friday was so small that it fit in a briefcase.
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Franklin County pinpoints cause of inflated Bush numbers Story Here Archive |
Associated Press 12 February 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio - The maker of Franklin County's election machines has pinpointed the error that made a laptop computer give thousands of extra votes to President Bush on election night: Just like any overworked and distracted human, the machine was trying to do too much at once.
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Key task for appointee will be voting machines Story Here Archive |
Christian Berthelsen, San Francisco Chronicle 12 February 2005 Sacramento If Bruce McPherson is confirmed to replace Kevin Shelley as secretary of state, one of his first and most urgent tasks will be to carry out voting machine reforms championed by his predecessor.
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Atwater bond would have lost had his vote counted, man says Story Here Archive |
ROSALIO AHUMADA MERCED SUN-STAR 11 February 2005 ATWATER ? A McSwain-area resident claimed Thursday that his vote would have defeated a school bond measure in Tuesday's election ? if only he could have cast it.
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Voters will use new equipment in fall Story Here Archive |
Rebecca Helmes Palladium-Item 11 February 2005 EATON, Ohio Preble County should be using optical scan voting machines from Election Systems & Software by the November elections.
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House Judiciary Democrats to ask for special prosecutor to investigate Ohio election chief Story Here Archive |
John Byrne Raw Story 11 February 2005 Four Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee asked the Department of Justice to begin a criminal investigation into Ohio?s Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell today, RAW STORY has learned.
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Electronic ballot safety is a concern for legislators Story Here Archive |
Jared Strong Iowa State Daily 11 February 2005 Fourteen counties using touch-screen voting machines have concerned Iowa lawmakers because of a perceived lack of security.
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Former GOP Lawmaker Named Secretary of State Story Here Archive |
Jesus Sanchez, Los Angeles Times 11 February 2005 Former state legislator Bruce McPherson, a moderate Republican from Santa Cruz, today was appointed to serve as secretary of state, replacing Kevin Shelley, who resigned last week amid allegations of financial and official misconduct.
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Backup system wanted to prevent repeat of Carteret lost-vote fiasco Story Here Archive |
MARK JOHNSON Charlotte Observer 10 February 2005 RALEIGH - A special committee of citizens and legislators approved proposed legislation Wednesday that would require all voting machines in North Carolina to produce a paper copy of ballots so voters can see and verify them.
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Panel cites "remarkable negligence" in Mercer election problems Story Here Archive |
Associated Press 10 February 2005 MERCER, Pa. Voters in Mercer County were victimized by the quote remarkable negligence end quote of county elections workers during November's glitch-filled general election.
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Self-evaluation shows Franklin County needs more voting machines Story Here Archive |
Associated Press 10 February 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Franklin County elections officials should change the way voting machines are distributed and purchase more of them to satisfy state requirements, according to a report by the elections board.
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Investigation of Mercer County voting finds widespread problems Story Here Archive |
Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10 February 2005 A committee appointed to review the problems experienced by Mercer County voters during November's election has found what members call "remarkable negligence" by the county's elections bureau and commissioners.
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