Vote is on, so are fears Story Here Archive |
Kate Larsen Boulder Daily Camera 19 October 2004 Eighteen-year-old Kelli Huls emerged from a voting booth at the Boulder County Courthouse on Monday with a smile on her face.
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New Jersey Lawsuit Challenges Electronic Voting Story Here Archive |
TOM ZELLER Jr. New York Times 19 October 2004 With just two weeks remaining before the Nov. 2 presidential election, a coalition of private citizens and local elected officials in New Jersey plan to file a lawsuit today to block the state's use of electronic voting machines.
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Voting expert thinks electronic voting is 'out of control' Story Here Archive |
CATHERINE WILSON Associated Press 19 October 2004 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A voting expert testifying for the state agreed Tuesday with an attorney for U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler that the nation's system of electronic voting is "out of control.
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Suit seeking to end e-voting called unrealistic by officials Story Here Archive |
BY KEVIN COUGHLIN The Star-Ledger 19 October 2004 Stephanie Harris of Mercer County voted four times in this year's June primary.
The reason, she said, was an apparent malfunction by an electronic voting machine from Sequoia Voting Systems. She said she still has no idea if any or all of her votes were counted by the machine.
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Computer problems reported at Broward early voting sites Story Here Archive |
Jean-Paul Renaud & Sarah Halasz South Florida Sun-Sentinel 18 October 2004 As long lines gathered at polls, early voters at nine of Broward County's 14 sites ran into computer-generated problems on Monday.
Gisela Salas, of the Broward Elections Office, said workers had problems connesting with a live database that is used to verify that a voter is properly registered in the county.
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Wexler lawsuit over touch-screen voting begins Story Here Archive |
ERIKA BOLSTAD Miami Herald 18 October 2004 A lawsuit over how to handle recounts on touch-screen voting machines started today, the same day that thousands of people across Florida trekked to early voting sites to cast ballots on the first day of early voting.
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Problems Plague 3 Early Vote Polling Places Story Here Archive |
KSAT.com 18 october 2004 SAN ANTONIO Early voting in Bexar County hit a snag Monday morning when at least three polling sites experienced computer problems.
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State electronic voting machine battle continues Story Here Archive |
WANDA T. WILLIAMS Hagerstown Herald-Mail 18 October 2004 TrueVoteMD, an election integrity group opposing the state's electronic touch-screen voting machines, is fighting the state's decision to not grant poll-watching credentials to group members for the Nov. 2 election.
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Group accused of destroying Democrats' voter registration cards Story Here Archive |
Mary Bruce Student Life of Washington University 18 October 2004 A group funded by the Republican National Convention (RNC) is under investigation for allegedly destroying Democratic voter registration cards in several swing states.
Working under the names of legitimate voter registration groups, an organization run by Republican operative Nathan Sproul has been accused of ripping up and discarding registration cards in an attempt to deny Democrats the ability to vote.
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Journalist Requests Temporary Restraining Orders Against Use of Voting Machines & Absentee Ballots Story Here Archive |
Lynn Landes EcoTalk 18 October 2004 Last week, freelance journalist Lynn Landes filed two Temporary Restraining Orders (TRO) in federal district court in Philadelphia. Landes is one of the nation's leading journalists on voting technology and democracy issues. She is attempting to halt the use of voting machines and absentee ballots in the upcoming presidential election.
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Communication glitch delays early voting at some Broward sites Story Here Archive |
NIKKI WALLER and HECTOR FLORIN Miami Herald 18 October 2004 Long delays and massive confusion marred the start of early voting in Broward County today, as the remote system used to verify voter registrations collapsed at nine satellite offices.
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Few Glitches Reported in Early Fla. Voting Story Here Archive |
By JILL BARTON Associated Press 18 October 2004 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Voters began casting ballots Monday in the state synonymous with the election fiasco of 2000, but only a few glitches were reported on a day that marked the start of early voting in several states.
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Federal trial on recounts with touch-screen machines in Florida Story Here Archive |
CATHERINE WILSON Associated Press 18 October 2004 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Touch-screen voting machines are "inherently incapable" of manual recounts even though state law requires recounts in tight races, U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler testified Monday in his lawsuit seeking some kind of paper trail for more than half of Florida's voters.
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Few Glitches Reported in Early Fla. Voting Story Here Archive |
JILL BARTON Associated Press 18 October 2004 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Voters began casting ballots Monday in Florida, encountering long lines at the polls and a few ballot box glitches four years after the 2000 presidential election fiasco.
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Early voting snags in Florida raise concerns for Election Day Story Here Archive |
GAIL EPSTEIN NIEVES, NIKKI WALLER AND DAVID OVALLE Knight-Ridder 18 October 2004 MiAMI - (KRT) - Early voters crowded precincts across Florida on Monday, but long waits in Miami-Dade County, computer glitches in Broward County around Fort Lauderdale and other problems cropped up, raising concerns for the Nov. 2 presidential election.
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Early Voting Begins In Colorado. Story Here Archive |
By Steven K. Paulson, Associated Press Writer. October 18, 2004. DENVER (AP) Long lines and sporadic computer problems greeted Coloradans who showed up to cast ballots on the first day of early voting Monday.
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No ballot crisis in Lenoir, Greene counties Story Here Archive |
BOB SHILES Kinston Free Press 17 October 2004 Although record demands for election ballots in some parts of the country are causing ballot shortages, election officials in Lenoir and Greene counties say there will be no problem in supplying ballots to all voters in their counties.
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120 Broward vote machines pass test Story Here Archive |
JEANNETTE RIVERA-LYLES Miami Herald 16 October 2004 A sample of 120 Broward County voting machines performed flawlessly on Friday during a state-mandated accuracy test, election officials said.
But voting-rights activists are not impressed. Each machine processed just one ballot, and the critics say that hardly makes for real election day conditions.
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State rules on how to conduct recounts Story Here Archive |
Linda Kleindienst and Jeremy Milarsky South Florida Sun Sentinel 16 October 2004
In answer to a judge's order, Secretary of State Glenda Hood on Friday night issued a new state rule on how to conduct manual recounts on touch-screen voting machines like those used in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
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Rule on recount calls for printout Story Here Archive |
Dara Kam Palm Beach Post 16 October 2004 TALLAHASSEE — Secretary of State Glenda Hood issued a long-awaited rule Friday evening on how to perform a manual recount on touch-screen voting machines.
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