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Voting methods dismay experts Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, September 26, 2004 An all-star cast of elections scientists holed up last weekend to examine the state of voting technology and elections. It's not disastrous, they concluded, but hardly a pretty picture, either. The prescription: More research, naturally. |
Calling for Ballot Reform - One Hunger Striker and a Chimpanzee Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, September 26, 2004 Washington, D.C. - Scripps Howard Foundation Wire - Kenney, 44, is on a hunger strike seeking reform of what he believes are critical flaws in the use of electronic voting machines. He wants Congress to require paper ballots for the November election and improved methods for counting punch cards and other machine-read ballots. |
Audit: No tabulation problems with new Nevada voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, September 25, 2004 Nevada election officials faced some delays Sept. 7 in the nation's first use of computers that print paper records of electronic ballots, but Secretary of State Dean Heller says an audit shows no variations in tabulation results. |
Primary Election Runs Into Problems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, September 25, 2004 HONOLULU New electronic paperless voting machines caused some problems in Saturday's primary election, KITV 4 News reported. The machines mistakenly allowed voters on Oahu and the Big Island to Green Party ballots even though there were no Green Party candidates. Elections officials also undercounted voter turnout by about 4,000 people. |
Maine's Clean Elections Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, September 25, 2004 Unlike many other states, Maine has not rushed into unproven, manipulation-prone touch-screen voting machines, which may well lead elsewhere to confusion, fraud, protest and delay in the approaching presidential election. Maine's Elections Division, a branch of the Department of the Secretary of State, has had the wisdom to stick this time with the paper ballots and electronic counting system that has worked well. And next year, when Maine must turn to at least some electronic voting machines to comply with the new federal Help Americans Vote Act, our state is bound by state law to require a verifiable paper trail to permit a recount in the event of any dispute. |
Tallying the Woes of Electronic Balloting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 24, 2004 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — More than 45 million people in 29 states and the District of Columbia are set to vote using touch-screen machines Nov. 2. But the devices once hailed as the answer to the nation's voting woes are stirring up some serious cases of buyer's remorse here and across the country. |
A Touchy Debate Over Voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 24, 2004 With the presidential election less than six weeks away, activists and security experts are ratcheting up concern over the use of touch-screen machines to cast votes. |
Computer voting needs paper backup Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 24, 2004 Our position is: State and federal officials should require that computerized voting systems leave a paper trail that can be audited. There was always something reassuring about the heavy CLUNK heard when casting a ballot on old-style voting machines. |
A sloppy way to run elections Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 24, 2004 Hillsborough County's elections supervisor needs to stop sugar-coating the problems he's had with counting votes. Buddy Johnson may satisfy himself by blaming the problems on human error and not the new touch screen voting machines, but to the average person it is a distinction without a difference. |
Disabled want more handicapped-accessible voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 24, 2004 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Lawyers for some disabled Duval County residents want a federal judge to require local elections officials to install more handicapped-accessible voting machines in time for the November election. |
EFF Releases Voting Machine Quick Reference Guides Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 24, 2004 The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released the results of their research into the strengths and weaknesses of the most popular models of e-voting machines. |
Justice Department asked to investigate New Orleans election Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 24, 2004 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two civil rights groups have asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the Sept. 18 elections in New Orleans, saying voting machine problems prevented up to 58,000 voters, many of them black, from casting ballots. |
Are we ready for a close race? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 24, 2004 Top state Republicans and Democrats fear that judges, not voters, could ultimately decide the Pennsylvania presidential election. Dreading a potential recount that might have national repercussions, as Florida's did in 2000, both sides are recruiting battalions of poll watchers and lawyers to gird themselves for a court battle over the results. |
State Rep. Ney opposing ballot receipts as costly threat to privacy Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 24, 2004 WASHINGTON As states struggle to upgrade voting machines before Election Day, Rep. Robert Ney is blocking new bills that would make all states give paper receipts to voters who cast computer ballots. The Ohio Republican, who has made voting reform a priority, has raised the ire of voting rights groups such as the Ohio Public Interest Research Group and Verified Voting Foundation, who say paper receipts could prevent computer fraud Nov. 2. |
Holding the vote-counting machines accountable Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 24, 2004 Computerized voting machines are attracting a lot of attention in this election year, but one system is being watched particularly closely: the AccuVote-TS. |
McComish's District 20 2nd-place finish confirmed Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 24, 2004 A Maricopa County Superior Court judge certified the contested recount of the District 20 Republican state House of Representatives primary, confirming John McComish's second-place finish. |
'A Massive Experiment' in Voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 23, 2004 Trust the computer. That's what Maryland told Linda Schade. The Takoma Park resident and Green Party member believes in saving the environment, but also believes a that few trees are worth sacrificing for democracy. She is a co-founder of Truevotemd.org, and among the determined activists around the country who claim that electronic voting machines like the touch-screen devices that will count Marylanders' votes this November are so shot through with problems that no one will know whether their votes were counted correctly, or at all. |
Voting machines certified for Nov. 2 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 23, 2004 The Indiana Election Commission has cleared the way for Vanderburgh County to use its touch-screen voting equipment in the Nov. 2 election. |
Firm caused anxiety over vote security Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 23, 2004 Elections are serious business. They are where the people decide who will make laws and policies and levy taxes. But voters have to know that the voting system is secure. There should never be a question about whether any vote will be lost because it's been miscounted or not counted. |
Touch screens certified Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 23, 2004 Wayne County residents will cast their ballots on certified iVotronic voting machines in the November election. The Indiana Election Commission announced the certification at a meeting Wednesday afternoon, a little more than a week before the Oct. 1 certification deadline. |
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