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Many Americans Distrustful of Electronic Voting Machines, Says New FindLaw Survey Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, September 20, 2004 EAGAN, Minn., Sept. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ Roughly four in 10 Americans say they are worried about potential problems with electronic voting machines to be used in the November election, according to a new poll by the legal Web site FindLaw (http://www.findlaw.com). Forty-two percent of those surveyed are concerned about potential vote tampering in electronic voting machines. Thirty-eight percent say they are worried about the accuracy of the machines. |
Unsupervised voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, September 20, 2004 While self-appointed elections watchdogs are barking their warnings about touch screen voting, they are diverting attention from a real threat to an honest outcome - the manipulation of absentee ballots. The rules governing absentee voting have been eased throughout the country, and more voters are casting their ballots in that manner. Yet the process is only loosely controlled in many states, and the opportunity for fraud is real. |
Electronic voting divides county political leaders Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, September 20, 2004 Local Democrats and Republicans are already sparring over the reliability of touch-screen voting machines Collin County will use on Nov. 2. Deployed in 2003, Collin County has used electronic voting machines in 28 elections. It bought AccuVote-TX machines from McKinney-based Diebold Election Systems after Florida's 2000 problems tallying punch cards in thepresidential election. |
Ready or Not (and Maybe Not), Electronic Voting Goes National Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, September 19, 2004 Just over six weeks before the nation holds the first general election in which touch-screen voting will play a major role, specialists agree that whatever the remaining questions about the technology's readiness, it is now too late to make any significant changes. |
No Hanging Chads In Our Vote Machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, September 19, 2004 When you press the vote button and leave the polling booth, are you sure your vote is counted? In the day of paper ballots, that question was applied to human vote counters — were they honest, reliable, alert? Questions about reliability of the voting system have arisen since the United States first began holding elections, but it was not until the 2000 presidential election that this issue generated a nationwide uproar. |
Voting machines' reliability debated Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, September 19, 2004 Nearly half the state's voters including thousands in the Indianapolis metro area will head to the polls this fall to use voting machines criticized as unreliable in a fierce debate over accuracy and security. |
Utah is rushing headlong into electronic voting danger Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, September 19, 2004 If the election of 2000 taught us anything, regardless of our feeling about the outcome, it was that elections are precarious things, run on unreliable systems using technologies and procedures that left us shaking our heads. Many people believe that any computerized system must be better. Computers have fundamentally changed other parts of our lives, so why not voting? |
Election officials prepare for controversy over close vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, September 19, 2004 Bracing for intense scrutiny over the Nov. 2 election, New Mexico election officials met in Santa Fe to brush up on state rules and encourage one another for the strenuous days that lie ahead. "This is going to be a difficult election," said state Elections Bureau Director Denise Lamb in her closing remarks of a three-day training session. |
Voter turnout weak in isles Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, September 19, 2004 Absentee balloting in yesterday's primary election was the highest ever in Hawaii, but election officials said they did not expect the total voter turnout to be strong. More than 73,000 people cast absentee ballots, according to the first printout yesterday already higher than the record total absentee turnout of 69,544 in the 2002 election. |
The Hand-Marked Ballot Wins for Accuracy Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, September 19, 2004 After the pandemonium over dimpled and pregnant chads in the 2000 election, nearly everyone agreed it was time to rethink old vote-counting ways. But the stampede to touch-screen voting was not inevitable. |
Official: 245 votes not counted until weeks after August primary Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, September 18, 2004 A total of 245 electronic ballots weren't counted in Hillsborough County until more than two weeks after the Aug. 31 state primary, an elections official said. |
When democracy goes haywire Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, September 18, 2004 When I received my U.S. citizenship last year, one of the questions I could have been asked by the INS officer was "What is one of the benefits of citizenship?" The correct response would have been, "The right to vote." So Tuesday I exercised for the first time my new right to vote in the U.S., in our state's primary election. |
245 Votes In Primary Originally Uncounted Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, September 18, 2004 TAMPA - Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson has maintained that vote-counting delays during the Aug. 31 primary were unfortunate but that results were accurate. |
245 Hillsborough primary votes go uncounted Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, September 18, 2004 TAMPA - Nearly 250 votes cast at a Hillsborough County early voting site before the Aug. 31 primary were never counted, a mistake that was discovered Friday, 17 days after the election. |
They Said It Couldn't Be Done Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, September 18, 2004 Many computer scientists insist that electronic voting machines will be trustworthy only when they produce paper receipts that can be audited. But supporters of electronic voting have long argued that doing so would be extremely difficult, if not impossible. Nevada proved the naysayers wrong this month, running the first statewide election in which electronic voting machines produced paper records of votes cast. Election officials across the country now have no excuse not to provide systems that voters can trust. |
Hacking the Presidency A Bipartisan Problem Anyone Can Do It; Wednesday, Sept. 22 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 17, 2004 Wednesday, Sept. 22. Two press events: 9:30 am (National Press Club, by invitation only; features a surprise and a three-hour head start for TV news) and 12:30 pm EST (The Ballroom at Heldref Publications, open to all journalists, policymakers, and to the public) Startling demonstrations using real election software proving that any teenager or terrorist with a laptop can create havoc with the election results in November. Or, more onerous: Anyone with an agenda or a profit motive can help themselves to an election with subtlety such that no one will ever know. |
Holding the Vote-Counting Machines Accountable Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 16, 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. The AccuVote-TS has been the subject of at least four studies over 14 months that expose security holes. This spring California's secretary of state, Kevin Shelley, blasted the manufacturer, Diebold Election Systems, for not following proper procedures in updating its software. Those problems and a battery defect that rendered some machines unusable for hours during the March primary prompted Mr. Shelley to order all counties using touch-screen machines to offer a paper alternative. |
Team to Watch U.S. Election Preparations Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 16, 2004 WASHINGTON - A team of international observers will travel to five states beginning Friday to monitor preparations for the Nov. 2 presidential election. The observers, organized by the San Francisco human rights group Global Exchange, will meet with voters, voting-rights groups and local officials to discuss voter disenfranchisement, the security of electronic voting machines and the influence of money in politics. |
Board refuses new voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 16, 2004 ADEL - The Dallas County Board of Supervisors declined a recommendation to buy additional electronic voting machines during its regular meeting Tuesday morning. |
Delayed primary results fuels fears for Nov. 2 vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 16, 2004 Delays in the reporting of Tuesday's primary results in the hotly contested D.C. Council races have fueled concerns about whether city election officials are prepared for higher turnout in the November general election. |
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