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11,310 ballots cast out Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 4, 2005 RALEIGH - The N.C. Supreme Court ruled Friday that provisional ballots cast by voters outside their home precinct are illegal, throwing out 11,310 ballots and potentially overturning a statewide vote and local races across the state. |
Attack on election protection attorneys draws mountain of documentation Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 3, 2005 Stiff legal sanctions sought by Ohio's Republican Attorney General James Petro against four attorneys who have questioned the results of the 2004 presidential balloting here has produced an unintended consequence a massive counter-filing that has put on the official record a mountain of contentions by those who argue that election was stolen. |
Ukraine vote yields important lessons for U.S. democracy Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 3, 2005 Ukraine's 2004 presidential election offers important lessons for American democracy. U.S. election laws and national opinion have yet to catch up with recent developments in election technology and administration. In particular, they are blind to what the Ukraine Supreme Court referred to as 'massive fraud,' where the integrity of an election is subverted by many small problems that are mutually reinforcing. |
County ponders voting switch Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 3, 2005 Nancy Bell's job just doesn't get any easier. In the wake of a difficult general election, she and the Ross County Board of Elections now are faced with an ultimatum from the Ohio Secretary of State's Office. |
Harmon claims criminal acts in vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 3, 2005 NEWARK After reviewing more than 700 voting machines, Domestic Relations Court Judge candidate Paul Harmon has requested a criminal investigation of the Licking County Board of Elections. |
Printer fails to satisfy e-vote activists Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 3, 2005 SAN JOSE, Calif. - Three months after the presidential election, one of the nation's biggest makers of touch-screen voting machines has created a companion printer that spits out paper records. |
Some sites show huge vote gaps Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 2, 2005 Record-keeping surrounding the Nov. 2 presidential election in Milwaukee is so flawed that in 17 wards there were at least 100 more votes recorded than people listed by the city as voting there. |
Ernest Partridge 'Shut Up!,' They Explain Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 2, 2005 Have you noticed? Those of us who suspect that the election was stolen (a.k.a. 'conspiracy nuts'), have presented an impressive array of evidence ? statistical, anecdotal and circumstantial ? to support our claims. In response to this we have been provided scant rebuttal evidence. |
Company sues Blackwell over voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 2, 2005 A Texas-based company sued Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell this morning for ordering county election boards across the state to abandon plans for electronic voting machines. |
Hamilton Co. resists vote system Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 2, 2005 Hamilton County may ask the Ohio Attorney General's Office whether county elections officials have to a new voting system, as ordered last month by Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. |
Democrats will investigate Ohio vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 2, 2005 WASHINGTON - The national Democratic Party will spend up to $500,000 to investigate voting problems that critics say might have occurred last year in the battleground state of Ohio, the party's leader said Tuesday. |
Officials say they'll pick optical scan vendor, though they don't want to Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 2, 2005 Lake County elections officials say the county might be forced to change from electronic voting machines to a precinct-count optical scan voting system. |
Closing arguments expected today in mayoral challenge Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 2, 2005 The lawsuit seeking to overturn the San Diego mayor's race headed toward a conclusion today following a second day of testimony about rejected write-in ballots and after the judge trimmed the breadth of the challengers' case. |
Rusk County official suggests voting changes Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 2, 2005 HENDERSON ? Rusk County commissioners heard a plan Tuesday morning to make elections less hectic and save money on federally-mandated electronic voting machines by consolidating polling locations, ping from 37 to 14. |
Record votes on paper Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 2, 2005 A legislative committee meets Thursday to take a least one more look at proposals designed to avoid a repeat of the election fiasco in Carteret County last fall and to help restore public confidence in the electoral process. When it takes its final look at recommendations, that committee must be sure to guarantee a way to recount votes when there's a contested election result. |
State shouldn't pay for needless recounts Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 2, 2005 With the legislative session fully underway, most Alaskans have shifted out of campaign mode (dreading the ringing of the telephone and averting one's gaze from the television during back-to-back-to-back advertisements) and are now settling in to the more passive role of watching laws being made. But there are some issues that came up during last fall's campaign season that are the subject of bills currently before the Legislature. While I understand the reluctance to think about campaigns right now, some things need to be addressed this session, so problems don't recur next election season. |
County looks at equipment to meet voting requirements Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 2, 2005 The Help America Vote Act, commonly known as HAVA, was quietly passed into law in 2002 by the U.S. Congress. |
Report: Invalid Florida ballots at all time low in 2004 election Story Here Archive |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The banishment of chads helped lead to the lowest level of invalid ballots ever measured in a presidential or gubernatorial election in Florida, said a report released Tuesday. |
Mistakes in voting plunge, state report says Story Here Archive |
Florida voters made far fewer errors in November than in the mistake-plagued 2000 election, a new report shows, with those who used paper ballots slightly more likely to record votes for president than those using electronic touch screens. |
Key electoral reforms proposed Story Here Archive |
King County would make provisional ballots distinguishable from regular ballots and adopt other changes to lessen future election problems under a bipartisan reform package proposed yesterday by two County Council members. |
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