Disabled are pleased with e-voting Story Here Archive |
By STEPHEN MANNING, Associated Press 03 October 2004 COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - This November, Eileen Rivera Ley, 41, will vote by herself for the first time. Blind voters in Maryland and several other states will use electronic voting machines equipped with technology that allows the disabled to vote independently.
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Duval County: Touch-screen voting machines won't be ready for election Story Here Archive |
Associated Press 02 October 2004 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Duval County won't have touch-screen voting machines for the disabled in place by the November election, despite a judge's order, election officials said in a court filing.
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Appeal deadline passes in manual recount case Story Here Archive |
by Jack Gurney Pelican Press 02 October 2004 Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood will apparently abide by an administrative law judge's ruling that Sarasota County and 15 other counties must be capable of conducting manual recounts with their paperless touch-screen voting matches. But she hasn't said how.
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The Perils of Polling Story Here Archive |
Spectrum IEEE Online. October 2004. By Steven Cherry This November, people all over the United States will cast ballots using methods that span centuries of technological development. In fact, in this technologically advanced country, more than half of the voters will mark their choices by hand on paper ballots, just as their great-great-great-grandparents may have done.
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Joe Crankshaw: Carter is right?voting machines are a huge issue Story Here Archive |
By Joe Crankshaw Scripps 01 October 2004 Gov. Jeb Bush is a tad upset at former President Jimmy Carter, who said that conditions do not exist to assure a fair election in Florida. Carter said there are too many questions about the touch screen voting machines that don't produce a paper trail. The governor said the former president is "haranguing" and that "conspiracy theories" are ridiculous.
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Error will force Hamilton County to reissue 17,500 absentee ballots Story Here Archive |
By Cindi Andrews Cincinnatti Enquirer 01 October 2004 Ballots sent to 17,500 absentee voters in Hamilton County this week will be reissued because about 3,400 of them could foil a voter's intention.
An error in how the ballot was structured would have given votes intended for William Brayshaw, the county engineer who is running unopposed for re-election, to Nancy Fuerst, a Democratic candidate for Ohio Supreme Court.
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Voting without a receipt Story Here Archive |
By Courtney Hunter The Guilfordian 01 October 2004 The presidential election is a little over a month away, and the controversy over electronic voting is in full swing. Computer scientists, civil rights groups, and public officials are banding together to protest the use of electronic voting machines, which, according to The Economist, will be used by 50 million people (one third of all voters), this November.
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Florida fiasco keeps Bush's votes in safe hands Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 By ANDREW GUMBEL as reported in the New Zealand Herald 30 September 2004 Of the many weird and unsettling developments in Florida since the presidential election meltdown four years ago, none is so startling as the fact that Theresa LePore, the calamitously incompetent elections supervisor of Palm Beach County, still has her job.
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Hart-Intercivic And ES&S Up To No Good Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 David Allan as printed in Scoop 30 September 2004 I have come into possession of a pair of letters written by a former Hart-Intercivic technician to the Secretaries of State for Ohio and Texas. These letters detail a 'long history of concealing problems' and a willingness to ignore potentially serious problems 'largely for the sake of corporate profit'.
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Libertarians score ballot spots Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 JOSEPH TURNER; The Tacoma News Tribune The Libertarian Party candidates for U.S. Senate and governor will appear on the Nov. 2 general election ballot even though they got less than 1 percent of the vote in the September primary election.
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DOWN FOR THE RECOUNT Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 Andrew Gumble LA City Beat 30 September 2004 Bad news for the campaigners trying to force Riverside County to come clean about the inner workings of its controversial electronic voting machines. A local judge last week rejected a lawsuit brought by an aggrieved candidate, Linda Soubirous, who was trying to acquire backup data from a contentious local election held last March. The judge found no merit in her argument that the data was essential to the conduct of a meaningful recount.
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Quest for paper vote trail heats up Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 By David Damron Orlando Sentinel 30 September 2004 With the 2004 election barely a month away, Gov. Jeb Bush's election chief is seeking another round of opinions this week on how to recount votes cast on paperless electronic voting machines.
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Florida still lacks uniform voting standard Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 Opinion in Miami Herald 30 September 2004 Florida Congressman Robert Wexler's seemingly moribund quest for a statewide paper trail of votes cast on electronic voting machines got a reprieve this week from the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, and that's good news for Florida's voters.
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Black Voters 'Afraid' of Electronic Voting Machines, Activist Says Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 By Marc Morano CyberNewsService 30 September 2004 Miami (CNSNews.com) - An African-American civil rights spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the new computerized voting machines "terrify" her, and that blacks are "afraid of machines like that."
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Diebold Rep Now Runs Elections Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 Kim Zetter Wired News 30 September 2004 An influential employee of voting machine maker Diebold Election Systems left the company recently to take a job as elections manager for a California county.
Deborah Seiler, a sales representative for the beleaguered voting company, was hired a week ago and started Monday in Solano County, northeast of San Francisco in California's wine country. The position puts her second in command of elections in the county, under the registrar of voters.
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Glitch in Ohio election law may mean some provisional votes get thrown out Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 By Meghan Crosby Athens News Voters who are registered to vote in any Ohio county are eligible to cast a ballot in the precinct where they live using a provisional ballot, but a strict interpretation of state law may deny some a chance to weigh in on this year's elections.
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Change in software made primary inherently unfair Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 John Mills Opinion in Tacoma News Tribune 30 September 2004 Republicans think Libertarian Jeff Jared cost Slade Gorton his seat in the 2000 U.S. Senate race and accordingly cost the Republicans control of the U.S. Senate.
They don't want a repeat this year, so Sam Reed, our Republican secretary of state, thinks the Libertarians should butt out of the U.S. Senate race this November.
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Voter-Verified Ballots - The Code Breakers Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, September 29, 2004 Jill S. Farrell Insight Magazine 29 September 2004 Approximately 30 percent of the nation's votes could be cast using controversial electronic voting machines this November. The major complaint regarding the touch-screen - Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) - voting machine systems is their lack of a verifiable paper trail.
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Unearthing the Undervote Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, September 29, 2004 By Thomas Hargrove American Journalism Review 29 September 2004 Rural Tyler County in the western hills of West Virginia lost exactly 1,000 votes belonging to Bob Dole during the 1996 presidential election. In fact, a lot of votes in a lot of places were lost in the past eight years because of inaccurate voting machines, confusing ballot designs and faulty accounting methods.
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Gov. Schwarzenegger Signs Ca. Paper Trail Bill into Law Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, September 29, 2004 Kim Alexander Government Technology 29 September 2004 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed SB 1438 into law. This bill, co-authored by Senators Ross Johnson (R-Orange) and Don Perata (D-Alameda) requires there to be a voter verified paper record to back up every electronic ballot cast in California by 2006 Primary election.
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