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In Texas, we're working to ensure that every vote is counted Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, August 28, 2004 No one wants another Florida. As Texas election officials, ensuring the integrity and security of elections is our top priority. |
Calif. Election Raises E-Voting Concerns Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, August 28, 2004 RIVERSIDE, Calif. - County election officials have been among the staunchest advocates of electronic voting, insisting that computers are as reliable as paper ballots. |
Use of paper ballots confirmed for election Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 27, 2004 A banner above the door of Johnson County’s voter registration office in downtown Franklin still tells residents to touch the future of voting using new touchscreen voting machines. |
Lessons learned on voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 27, 2004 A wise man once said, "Learning starts with failure." If true, Solano County election officials must be getting quite an education. Last week, the Board of Supervisors' accepted a plan to pay off Diebold Election Systems Inc. and close the books on Solano County's experiment with touch-screen voting. |
Judge: touchscreen counties must be able to do manual recounts Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 27, 2004 A state rule preventing the 15 Florida counties that use touchscreen voting from conducting manual recounts is at odds with state law, which requires hand recounts in certain situations, an administrative law judge ruled Friday. |
After Your Vote Vanishes Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 27, 2004 IF MARYLAND voters are compelled to use electronic voting machines as set up by state officials, their votes on the touch-screens will be touched and gone never to be recounted usefully if the system crashes, hackers attack, well-meaning programmers mess up or glitches arise. Such is the unnecessary risk that Maryland is running. Opponents of this vanishing-vote system have been in court this week seeking a preliminary injunction, asking that the state be required to equip machines with printers that would make a paper copy of each ballot. On the opening day of a three-day hearing before Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Joseph P. Manck, the plaintiffs argued that the machines to be used in Maryland "are uniquely insecure and vulnerable to outside attack" and that changes can and must be made before votes are cast in November. |
One county opts for backup vote plan Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 27, 2004 INDIANAPOLIS - Vanderburgh and two other Indiana counties are still waiting to see if their touch-screen voting systems pass required federal tests in time to be used in the Nov. 2 election. |
M.J. Andersen: Scary scenarios for upcoming elections Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 27, 2004 Hamm's South Korean rival was the victim of judging errors that, once corrected, placed him first in the men's all-around gymnastic competition. On the other hand, he delayed too long in objecting. Olympic rules prohibit late changes in results. And anyway, deductions the judges should have applied still would have kept the South Korean from winning. It is a debate that smarts, a debate that will never end. And yet, despite the exacting stakes, this was only an athletic contest. Imagine if the prize were, say, the presidency of the United States. |
Late Changes in Election Procedures Could Cause Chaos Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 27, 2004 ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Any late changes in election procedures, including allowing voters to request paper ballots, could cause chaos at the polls and open up new avenues to voter fraud, two Maryland election officials testified Thursday. |
ES&S Introduces Back-Up Plan for November Election Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 27, 2004 (Indianapolis) - An embattled voting machine company at the heart of an I-Team 8 investigation was back before the state election board Thursday night. Election Systems and Software (ES&S) is up against the wall to make sure its touch screen voting machines are approved by the November election. |
Florida rejects plan to test e-voting system Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 27, 2004 The state has rejected a proposal to test Miami-Dade County's electronic voting system during the Aug. 31 primary, dealing a blow to reformers who said testing during the election was the only way to ensure the machines count correctly. |
Security experts raise concerns about e-mail voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 27, 2004 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Internet security experts are raising concerns about a plan by Missouri's secretary of state to allow members of the military stationed overseas to return their ballots by e-mail. |
Judge: touchscreen counties must be able to do manual recounts Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 27, 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A state rule barring the 15 Florida counties that use touchscreens from doing manual recounts is at odds with state law, which requires hand recounts in certain close elections, an administrative law judge ruled Friday. A coalition of government watchdogs and other interest groups sued the state arguing the law requires provisions for hand recounts in every county, no matter what voting technology is used. |
It's all relative, Or: It better be a good party Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 27, 2004 The voting machine controversy continues. David Corn, an editor at The Nation, reported yesterday that in addition to the party snacks so thoughtfully provided by their sponsors, those trusted gatekeepers of the Election Center are eating their words. |
Judge: Recounts a must for touch-screen machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 27, 2004 TALLAHASSEE In another blow to Florida's beleaguered election system, an administrative law judge late Friday struck down a state rule that shields touch-screen voting machines from undergoing manual recounts. |
E-Voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 26, 2004 It is "so hard to understand how an Assembly committee last week killed a bill that would have required paper printouts for electronic voting machines," the Chronicle complained in an August 20 editorial.* |
The Voting Machine Jackpot Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 26, 2004 On August 24th, droves of state and county election officials converged on Washington, D.C. for a four day-long conference designed to help prepare them for the crucial task they will perform this November 2. The conference will allow them to chat with the four members of the Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) appointed by President Bush to administer election standards, mingle with congressional members involved in recent election reforms, and finally, they will be presented with awards by the three major voting machine companies that wined, dined and lobbied them throughout the entire four days. |
Johnson County Going With Optical Scan Machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 26, 2004 Since February, I-Team 8 has been investigating new voting technology. We're less than ten weeks before the election, but there are still concerns about the technology. |
Boulder's brilliant step back Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 26, 2004 Here's a textbook example of how government operates: A substantial portion of the population believes that our balloting system is flawed. The government solution? Make the system more convoluted and less resistant to fraud. |
Iowa a leader with new voting equipment Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 26, 2004 Iowa Secretary of State Chet Culver spoke with a group of local Democrats on Monday, August 23, about the improvements made to the voting process this fall due to the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). |
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