Vote machines being cleared    Story Here  Archive

Ed Asher Albuquerque Tribune 19 January 2005 County workers have begun erasing and reprogramming voting machines and will begin delivering them to polling places next week, in time for the Feb. 1 school district election, Bernalillo County Clerk Mary Herrera said.

Developing: Nine Judiciary Committee Democrats call on chairman to hold formal hearings on voting irregularities and reform    Story Here  Archive

Raw Story 19 January 2005 Nine Judiciary committee Democrats, led by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) called on Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Wednesday to open formal hearings on voting irregularities and voting reform, RAW STORY has learned.

Column: Virginia voters should demand voting equality    Story Here  Archive

Jonathan McGlumphy Collegiate Times 19 January 2005 With the inauguration of President Bush this Thursday, the 2004 election cycle will finally come to an end. However, many questions still remain, particularly in Ohio, where numerous reports of voting irregularities have come to light in recent weeks. The example of unverifiable electronic votes due to the lack of a paper trail comes readily to mind. Even more disturbing is the fact that Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell ? the man in charge of certifying the votes ? was also co-chairman of the Bush/Cheney campaign in the Buckeye state. This is a clear conflict of interest, and it makes one wonder if a single vote even counts

Ohio's GOP Attorney General launches revenge attack on Election Protection legal team    Story Here  Archive

Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman Columbus Free Press 19 January 2005 COLUMBUS In a stunning legal attack, Ohio's Republican Attorney General has moved for censure against the four attorneys who sued George W. Bush et. al. in an attempt to investigate the Buckeye State's bitterly contested November 2 election.

Letter: Nine House Democrats call for full hearing on voting reform, irregularities    Story Here  Archive

RawStory Blue Lemur 19 January 2005 We write to you at the very outset of the 109th Congress, to request that our committee hold hearings and investigate the vital issue of protecting our citizens right to vote. The right to vote is the very foundation of our Democracy and is at the core of our Committee?s jurisdiction, and we can think of no more important or urgent issue before us than protecting our democratic rights. While the election is settled, however, our job as legislators on the Judiciary Committee to make sure that the constitutional right to vote is protected is just beginning.

Blackwell sends Ohio in wrong direction    Story Here  Archive

Editorial Canton Repository 18 January 2005 Kenneth Blackwell wants to be governor, but as long as he is Ohio?s secretary of state, his job is to go to bat for Ohio voters. Instead, he has sold them out.

Senate thins election proposals    Story Here  Archive

BRAD SHANNON THE OLYMPIAN 18 January 2005 Lawmakers began the laborious process Monday of deciding what election-law changes to enact to rebuild public trust in the voting system. Secretary of State Sam Reed's call for changes including an earlier date for the state's traditional September primary got a mixed response from a Senate committee. The parts of his proposals that seek to standardize procedures for counting ballots and deciding what a voter's intent was were well received.

Ohio voters, sharpen your pencils    Story Here  Archive

David Giffels Akron Beacon 18 January 2005 Back in the fall, when I was traveling around the state writing about the upcoming election, I happened along an antiques store in Bolivar that had set up an old-fashioned polling room.

How will Athens Co. respond to latest on voting machines?    Story Here  Archive

Nick Claussen The Athens News 18 January 2005 After Athens County nearly got electronic touch-screen voting machines but then stuck with punch-card ballots in 2004, it now looks as if the county soon will change over to an optical-scan voting system.

County looks at new voting machines    Story Here  Archive

Connie Street of the Muscatine Journal 18 January 2005 MUSCATINE, Iowa - Muscatine County officials got their first look at new voting machines on Monday, when Omaha-based Election Systems & Software presented a voting equipment demonstration in the third-floor courtroom.

One Last Election Lesson    Story Here  Archive

Editorial New York Times 18 January 2005 The November election may feel like ancient history, but it is still going on in North Carolina. The state has been unable to swear in an agriculture commissioner because a single malfunctioning electronic voting machine lost more ballots than the number of votes that separate the two candidates. The State Board of Elections, the candidates and the public are sharply divided on how to proceed. The mess North Carolina finds itself in is a cautionary tale about the perils of relying on electronic voting that does not produce a paper record.

Key Election Evidence Destroyed    Story Here  Archive

Press Release HelpAmericaRecount 18 January 2005 A civil lawsuit, filed on behalf of eight New Mexico residents Friday claims that the certified results of the 2004 New Mexico general election demonstrate that voting machines used in the election malfunctioned seriously enough to affect the outcome of election races, including the race for President.

In the Shadow of Dr. King, counting the vote remains a civil rights issue    Story Here  Archive

Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman Columbus Free Press 17 January 2005 In the shadow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., America's electoral crisis continues. King marched across the south and the nation to guarantee all Americans, black and white, the right to vote. But in 2000 and again in 2004, that right was denied. Now in the wake of another bitterly contested vote count, is the electoral situation improving in the spirit of Dr. King?

Why We Must Question Our Elections    Story Here  Archive

Arlene S. Ash, Ph.D. TruthOut 17 January 2005 I am a statistician. When I testified about electoral tampering in Martin County, Florida, in November 2000, I focused exclusively on the fact that the number of disputed ballots would have changed the outcome. That was shortsighted. As U.S. newspapers have written about the Ukraine, an election's outcome may be less important than how it was conducted. Democratic elections must be verifiably fair.

PERSPECTIVE: Officials say switching machines wouldn't have changed '04 outcome    Story Here  Archive

CARRIE SPENCER Associated Press 17 January 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio - The mantra leading up to the November election was "every vote counts."

New voting system not needed in Lake County    Story Here  Archive

Editorial Northeast Ohio News-Herald 17 January 2005 When it comes to conducting virtually foolproof elections, seven of Ohio's counties are far ahead of the other 81. As it became apparent that the time had come to replace outmoded, old-fashioned voting machines or other archaic methods of casting ballots, elections officials in those seven counties did their homework. They studied every available option. They listened to representatives of companies that wanted their business. They went on field trips. They weighed all the alternatives - plus the costs involved - and they chose to purchase state-of-the-art voting devices that are amazingly efficient in how well they work.

Delays at polls weren't a scheme    Story Here  Archive

Mark Naymik Cleveland Plain Dealer 17 January 2005 When they stood on the floor of Congress recently to protest the results of Ohio's presidential vote, Democrats told a national audience about their suspicious hunch: People in Democratic strongholds were short-changed on voting machines on Election Day.

SAIC and the Justice Department    Story Here  Archive

Matt Carmody BuzzFlash 17 January 2005 The company that recently took $170 million taxpayer dollars to upgrade the FBI's computer systems and then didn't deliver as promised was a weird choice for the contract in the first place.

Dumping the touch-screens    Story Here  Archive

Editorial Toledo Blade 16 January 2005 With his latest U-turn on the tortuous road to voting reform in Ohio, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has demonstrated once again that consistency in decision-making isn't his strong suit.

2 in House say machine votes need receipts    Story Here  Archive

MICHAEL R. WICKLINE Arkansas Democrat Gazette 16 January 2005 Two months after barely winning election, state Rep. Ray Kidd, D-Jonesboro, says he intends to introduce legislation to require touch-screen voting machines to produce a paper receipt for voters to verify their votes and to use in recounts.

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