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Startling New Revelations Highlight Rare Congressional Hearings on Ohio Vote Story Here Archive |
Startling new revelations about Ohio's presidential vote have been uncovered as Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee join Rev. Jesse Jackson in Columbus, the state capital, on Monday, Dec. 13, to hold a rare field hearing into election malfeasance and manipulation in the 2004 vote. The Congressional delegation will include Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, and others. |
Several factors contributed to 'lost' voters Story Here Archive |
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Tanya Thivener's is a tale of two voting precincts in Franklin County. In her city neighborhood, which is vastly Democratic and majority black, the 38-year-old mortgage broker found a line snaking out of the precinct door. |
How councilman's finding led to detection of goofs Story Here Archive |
It wasn't just any citizen whose voting problem led to King County's discovery yesterday that 561 voters had been disenfranchised by apparent data-entry goofs. |
Hamilton Co. recount under way Story Here Archive |
The recount got under way in Hamilton County today with about 20 Republicans, Green Party representatives and Democrats looking on. |
Cobb Tells Congress About Rigged Voting Machines Story Here Archive |
COLUMBUS, OH December 14 Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb told members of the House Judiciary Committee yesterday about an Ohio Board of Elections employee who witnessed deliberate tampering with county voting machines. |
AutoMARK Voter Assist Terminal Demonstration Story Here Archive |
The AutoMARK Voter Assist Terminal is a machine designed to allow voters who are blind, voters who need an audio presentation of a ballot, or voters who need a ballot in a language other than English to cast an optically-scanned ballot, using the same ballot as sighted voters. AutoMARK representative Rob Resuali came to the National Center for the Blind on November 15th to demonstrate the machine. NFB staff member Ameenah Ghoston volunteered to participate in this demonstration. Many different capabilities of the machine were demonstrated, including the ability to write in a candidate and the ability to review the ballot once it has been marked. |
Justices consider recount rules Story Here Archive |
OLYMPIA - The state Supreme Court on Monday considered the breadth of the state's recount law and whether it requires thousands of rejected ballots in the governor's race be given a second look in the hand tally now under way. |
Safeguards built into hand count, official says Story Here Archive |
EVERETT - In a leased room across the street from the Snohomish County Courthouse, 27 pairs of people sat at folding tables in a location usually reserved for machines that rapidly count votes. |
561 valid King County ballots still uncounted Story Here Archive |
OLYMPIA Five hundred sixty-one valid absentee ballots that had been erroneously rejected have been discovered in heavily Democratic King County, buoying Christine Gregoire's hopes of prevailing in a hand recount of the governor's race. |
Rendell wants electoral changes Story Here Archive |
HARRISBURG | A new task force formed by Gov. Ed Rendell will study instituting early voting and voting by mail in Pennsylvania. |
N.M. Judge Refuses To Intervene in Presidential Recount Decision Story Here Archive |
SANTA FE ? A judge refused to order an immediate statewide recount of presidential votes, saying the matter should wait until the state canvassing board takes it up on Tuesday. |
Recount Intervention Request 'Premature,' Judge Rules Story Here Archive |
SANTA FE? A judge on Monday denied a request by Green and Libertarian presidential candidates to force state officials to begin a recount of the Nov. 2 presidential election immediately. |
Voting amendment would be good start Story Here Archive |
As U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, chaired last week's hearing on irregularities in the Nov. 2 presidential voting in Ohio, the Rev. Jesse Jackson warned that the session must be more than merely an opportunity to vent. |
Officials are studying changes to improve state's voting system Story Here Archive |
Quite a few Novembers have passed since a voter could mark a paper ballot with a few simple strikes and, after slipping the ballot into a box, expect to have election officials count it by hand. |
Democrats' lawsuit unanimously rejected by the state Supreme Court Story Here Archive |
OLYMPIA ? The state Supreme Court this morning unanimously rejected the Democratic Party's recount lawsuit and will not order election officials to reconsider thousands of previously rejected ballots. |
Ballot printout isn't cure-all, panel told Story Here Archive |
RALEIGH - The one change in voting machines that the public apparently wants more than any other a printout of their completed ballot would do nothing to ensure that vote is properly counted, elections and computer experts told a special legislative committee Monday. |
Cobb's Judiciary Committee Testimony Shakes Up Ohio Election Investigation Story Here Archive |
The Cobb testimony concerned an eyewitness account from an Elections Official about election machine tampering by a worker from Triad Governmental Systems, Inc. as late as last Friday! |
Forty voters want November election results thrown out Story Here Archive |
CINCINNATI - A complaint that asks the Ohio Supreme Court to set aside the results of the Nov. 2 election and declare Democrat John Kerry the winner of the state's 20 electoral votes could face an uphill battle, political analysts said Tuesday. |
Ohio Recount: County Election Board Chair Disputes comments from spokesperson for Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell Story Here Archive |
Yesterday, I reported on a phone interview with Carlo LoParo, a spokesperson for Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell. One of the items LoParo repeatedly stressed was that 'each county in Ohio has an election board consisting of two Republicans and two Democrats' and that each board 'unanimously voted to certify their election results on December 6th.'...he urged me to contact these Democratic party chairs if I 'had any doubt' as to the conduct of the elections in any of Ohio's 88 county's, including oft discussed Franklin and Hamilton counties. So, I contacted Hamilton County's Board of elections Chair (Franklin's board did not return calls), but his comments did not line up with those coming out of the Secretary of State's office. |
More Questions for Florida Story Here Archive |
A government watchdog group is investigating allegations made by a Florida programmer that are whipping up a frenzy among bloggers and people who believe Republicans stole the recent election. |
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