Local Angle: Auditor confident of accurate tally Story Here Archive |
DON JENKINS The Columbian 05 December 2004 Wandering minds make counting ballots by hand "inherently less reliable" than a machine count, but safeguards are in place to get the tally right in Clark County, Auditor Greg Kimsey said Friday.
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Dead voters on rolls, other glitches found in 6 key states Story Here Archive |
Geoff Dougherty and others Chicago Tribune 04 December 2004 Michel Pillet died in 2002, but his name lives on at the University of New Mexico. He created the school's graduate architecture program and directed it for years.
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Touch-screen votes give county a daunting task Story Here Archive |
Scott North Everett Herald 04 December 2004 No matter who comes out on top in the statewide hand recount in the governor's race, the story in Snohomish County will be told in paper.
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New machine first to be considered Story Here Archive |
JENNIFER LEARN-ANDES Times Leader 04 December 2004 County officials got their first close look at an electronic voting machine Friday as it was wheeled into the Luzerne County Courthouse for review by the county's ion committee.
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Election critics protest at Statehouse Story Here Archive |
JOHN McCARTHY Associated Press 04 December 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio - About 400 people gathered at the Ohio Statehouse on Saturday to demand a recount of Ohio's presidential election or at least a look into Election
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Alaska's 2004 election certified, but recount possible Story Here Archive |
RACHEL D'ORO Associated Press 04 December 2004 The head of the state Division of Elections certified the 2004 general election Friday, saying a record number of Alaskans turned out to vote.
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Two counties face task of tallying touch-screen votes Story Here Archive |
Associated Press 04 December 2004 Most counties bracing for a statewide hand recount of the governor's race have boxes upon boxes full of ballots.
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It can happen here Story Here Archive |
Paul Jacobs The Californian 04 December 2004 A democracy is only as strong as its voting system. All it takes to steal an election is a rigged vote. The thought of election fraud in America the bastion of democracy is frightening and unconscionable, but possible.
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Study shows higher voting accuracy Story Here Archive |
Macon Telegraph 03 December 2004 Undervoting, a key measurement of voting accuracy, ped precipitously in Georgia during the 2004 elections, according to figures released by the Secretary of State's office.
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Cobb Campaign Decides Not to Pursue Nevada Recount. Story Here Archive |
Press Release Green Party US 02 December 2004 Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb announced today that he would not pursue a recount in Nevada. Cobb and Libertarian Michael Badnarik had made the initial recount request on Monday.
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Elections chief: New balloting offers restitution Story Here Archive |
JANNETTE PIPPIN The Daily News 02 December 2004 BEAUFORT - Carteret County Board of Elections Chairman Ed Pond says there's no perfect way to resolve the loss of 4,438 votes that didn't get counted in November's general election.
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Georgia election data shows black precincts saw biggest voting improvements Story Here Archive |
Associated Press 02 December 2004 Precincts with high percentages of black voters saw the greatest improvements in voting accuracy using Georgia's electronic voting machines in the recent general elections, according to figures released by the Secretary of State's office.
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Errors in Skagit vote count point to statewide problem Story Here Archive |
JAMES GELUSO Skagit Valley Herald 03 December 2004 Mistakes by counting machines could affect outcome of election The machines used by Skagit County to tally votes made at least 36 mistakes in the count for the governor's race, which was decided by just 42 votes statewide.
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Voting errors tallied nationwide Story Here Archive |
Brian C. Mooney, Boston Globe 01 December 2004 More than 4,000 votes vanished without a trace into a computer's overloaded memory in one North Carolina county, and about a hundred paper ballots were thrown out by mistake in another. In Texas, a county needed help from a laboratory in Canada to unlock the memory of a touch-screen machine and unearth five dozen votes.
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Indiana elections need a voter-verified paper trail Story Here Archive |
TAMMY BARNETT Special to the Evansville Courier & Press 01 December 2004 Editor's note: This is the first of two Community Comments by Tammy Barnett, one of two individuals appointed to oversee the review of voting equipment used in Vanderburgh County for the Nov. 2 election. Her second installment will be published in the coming days.
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County Commissioners See Demonstrations Of Voting Machines From Two Companies Story Here Archive |
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer 01 December 2004 Two companies demonstrated their voting machines Tuesday to the Kosciusko County commissioners.
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County officials wrangle over voting methods Story Here Archive |
Pam Tharp Palladium-Item 30 November 2004 LIBERTY, Ind. Union County officials thought waiting until after the election to buy new election equipment would make the decisions easier.
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Voting machines aren't a hit in Grand County Story Here Archive |
Carrie Switzer Desert Morning News 29 November 2004 MOAB ? Grand County administrators have forwarded a "litany" of complaints about electronic voting machines to state elections officials.
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Jesse Jackson: Pattern of Republican Intentionality Casts New Doubt on Bush Ohio Win Story Here Archive |
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman OpEdNews 28 November 2004 COLUMBUSPreaching to a packed, wildly cheering central Ohio citizen congregation, Rev. Jesse Jackson blasted the presidential election back into the national headlines Sunday. Jackson said new findings cast serious doubt on the idea that George W. Bush beat John Kerry in Ohio November 2. A GOP "pattern of intentionality" was behind a suspect outcome, he said. At stake is "the integrity of the vote" for which "too many have died." "We can live with losing an election," he said. "We cannot live with fraud and stealing."
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We must redouble efforts to remove glitches from electronic voting system Story Here Archive |
Asheville Citizen-Times 29 November 2004 There is a disagreement in many circles about whether a paper trail is the right approach in ensuring the integrity of our election system, which is increasingly relying on electronic voting machines.
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