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Solano, Diebold end pact Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 26, 2004 Solano County's troubled relationship with Diebold Election Systems Inc., the manufacturer of a much-maligned electronic voting machine, is officially over. |
Citizens should demand paper ballot Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 26, 2004 About 3 out of 10 votes in the national election this November will be unverifiable, unauditable and unrecountable unless laws similar to Maine's Act To Assure the Accurate Counting of Votes are adopted by other states. Maine's act bans Internet voting, networked voting machines and any electronic voting machines that don't provide a voter-verifiable paper trail. |
F.C. Registrar Defends New Voting Machine Technology Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 26, 2004 Recently, the News-Press ran Paul Krugman's op-ed piece titled "Saving the Vote". I disagree with most of what is said in that essay, and feel that it does not present a balanced analysis of the current election situation. The piece does make one important observation, however. The point it makes is that the American people no longer trust the validity of American elections. |
Diebold Wines and Dines Elections Officials Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 26, 2004 At a time when there is much controversy over electronic voting and some election experts are raising concerns about the integrity of such voting, should the leading manufacturers of electronic voting machines be wining and dining state and local officials responsible for conducting elections? Well, they are. |
State elections chief not worried about machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 26, 2004 Despite warnings from three computer experts including two hired by the state about widespread security vulnerabilities in a new electronic voting system, Maryland's top elections administrator said Thursday that she sees no reason for concern about proceeding with the planned statewide use of voting machines. |
County tests new voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 26, 2004 Barbara Blanchard was like a kid with a new toy Wednesday afternoon. Blanchard, Spartanburg County's director of voter registration and elections, was showing off the 690 iVotronic touch-screen voting machines that voters will use in the Nov. 2 election. |
Gambling with your vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 25, 2004 Very soon now, you’ll be hearing & reading red-white-and-blue editorials about your responsibility to go vote this fall. “Every Vote Counts,” they’ll cry! Unless, of course, it doesn’t. Many of our votes this year will be cast and tallied on corporate-controlled electronic voting machines that keep no traceable record of our ballots. These computers can easily malfunction or be manipulated, meaning they can be used to cheat and steal elections. |
Report targets possible election flaws Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 25, 2004 With the primary just days away, Inspector General Christopher Mazzella issued a report Wednesday on Miami-Dade County's election readiness. Among his recommendations: more training for some elections workers, additional security for voting machines and stronger guidelines for handling absentee ballots. |
Forsyth election challenger to appeal to Ga. high court Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 25, 2004 The magistrate candidate who lost her challenge to Forsyth County's primary election will appeal to the state Supreme Court, asking that the November general election be postponed if necessary. |
Md. Machines Seek Vote of Confidence Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 25, 2004 When critics of electronic voting machines warn of Maryland becoming another Florida, with the potential for hundreds if not thousands of lost votes this fall, State Elections Administrator Linda H. Lamone shudders. |
McKeithen says voting machines' vendors off limits Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 25, 2004 Secretary of State Fox McKeithen warned his employees: "Don't fraternize" with anyone trying to sell the state new voting machines, or face the consequences. The prohibition goes "much further" than state ethics laws for public workers, state ethics attorney Maris LeBlanc said. |
Rio Arriba County to Reconstruct 2000 Early Voting Results Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 25, 2004 The Secretary of State's Office plans to reconstruct Rio Arriba County's early voting results from the 2000 general election in the wake of a Washington Post article that contends presidential votes weren't recorded for 678 early voters. |
Poll: Voters Want Paper Trail Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 25, 2004 A new poll shows growing support for requiring electronic voting machines to produce a voter-verified paper trail. Just under half of all respondents 44 percent said they thought computerized voting systems are unreliable, up from about one-fourth of respondents in other studies. And almost three-fourths said the systems should produce a paper record that the voter can review. Sixty percent said they would vote for a presidential candidate this year who supports requiring a paper trail. |
Present facts on voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 25, 2004 Much of the controversy over electronic voting has turned on whether touch-screen machines such as those used in Georgia and elsewhere should be required to produce a verifiable "paper trail" for each ballot cast. While that issue may never be settled to everyone's satisfaction, other worrisome questions about the process for assessing the reliability of the machines must be resolved. |
Electronic voting beats levers, punch cards Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 25, 2004 There's a significant threat to the integrity of the upcoming presidential election — but it's not electronic voting. Four years after the Florida recount, more than 22 million registered Americans will use voting equipment that has no paper trail and no audit capability. They're called lever machines. |
Trial Begins In Challenge To Electronic Voting Machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 25, 2004 ANNAPOLIS, Md. Opponents of touch-screen electronic voting machines launched a broad attack Wednesday on Maryland's system, arguing that it is riddled with flaws that must be fixed to assure an accurate vote count in November. |
Senate OKs voting machine paper trail; Sierra bill to governor Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 25, 2004 SACRAMENTO - The Senate on Wednesday revived an effort to require a paper trail to ensure that electronic voting machines aren't tampered with and accurately record voter preferences. Meanwhile, the Assembly sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a bill that would create a state conservancy to help protect the Sierra Nevada from overdevelopment. |
AFL-CIO?S ?My Vote, My Right? Initiative Aimed at Curbing Voting Rights Abuses in 32 Communities in 12 States Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 25, 2004 WASHINGTON - August 25 - Through a non-partisan “My Vote, My Right” program, the AFL-CIO is working with allies in 32 communities in 12 states to educate citizens about their voting rights, help prevent the kinds of voting rights violations that marred the 2000 presidential election and urge voters to take advantage of new protections they enjoy under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) passed by Congress in 2002. |
Electronic voting machine safeguards in question Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 25, 2004 Maryland election officials ignored key recommendations for protecting a new electronic voting system in time for the November election, a state computer-security consultant testified Wednesday in Anne Arundel Circuit Court. |
Sum of a Glitch Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, August 24, 2004 In the Alabama 2002 general election, machines made by Election Systems and Software (ES&S) flipped the governor’s race. Six thousand three hundred Baldwin County electronic votes mysteriously disappeared after the polls had closed and everyone had gone home. Democrat Don Siegelman’s victory was handed to Republican Bob Riley, and the recount Siegelman requested was denied. Three months after the election, the vendor shrugged. “Something happened. I don’t have enough intelligence to say exactly what,” said Mark Kelley of ES&S. |
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