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Iowan advises Florida election officials Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 22, 2004 While many public officials in Florida continue cleaning up in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley, those in Miami-Dade County are bracing for a storm of another kind. Four years after Florida was at the epicenter of the 2000 presidential election upheaval, election personnel are working persistently on problems associated with the state’s controversial $25 million touch-screen, paperless voting system. Those involved include a University of Iowa professor and a former Quad-City resident. |
Voting backup plan is ready Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 22, 2004 Vanderburgh County and its voting machine vendor are developing a backup plan for the Nov. 2 election in case the county's new equipment isn't certified in time. If the plan must be used, voting in the general election will be done differently than it was in the May primary. |
Paper printouts reassure some e-voters Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 22, 2004 LAS VEGAS — Thousands of Silver State voters cast early ballots Saturday for their late-in-the-year primary, becoming the first to test a new technology at the heart of a national debate. |
Sumter County is lone punch-card ballot user in November Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 22, 2004 COLUMBIA, S.C. - Every South Carolina county that once used punch-card ballots is on track to have their election systems d in time for the Nov. 2 election - except Sumter County. Officials there have said there's not enough time to make the switch to electronic touch-screen voting machines for the general election, which means the county will continue to use the same ballots that caused turmoil during the 2000 presidential election. |
Secretive testing firms certify nation's vote count machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 22, 2004 The three companies that certify the nation's voting technologies operate in secrecy, and refuse to discuss flaws in the ATM-like machines to be used by nearly one in three voters in November. |
Vendors off-limits to staff Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, August 21, 2004 BATON ROUGE Secretary of State Fox McKeithen has warned employees of his office to avoid direct contact with election machine vendors who may want to sell the state new voting equipment or face disciplinary action. |
Provisional ballots offer promise, peril Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, August 21, 2004 WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of Americans will vote in November using a special kind of ballot that must be counted by hand. That could leave the outcome of the presidential election in doubt as elections officials argue over each vote. |
Wexler, losing in court, dismisses tests of ?black box? voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, August 21, 2004 Last week’s public testing of Florida’s touch-screen voting machines was meaningless and created a false sense of security, says U.S. Congressman Robert Wexler, whose legal challenges to the devices were on their last legs in federal court yesterday. “You can test all you want in August,” Wexler told the Boca Raton News in an interview. “It only creates a false sense of security. It doesn’t mean the boxes will work on Nov. 2. |
County to use paper ballots in November Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, August 21, 2004 Voters will have to do more than touch a screen when going to the polls in November’s election. Instead of using touchscreen voting machines, as in May’s primary, voters will mark paper ballots and slide them through a ballot-reading machine. |
Workers at voting firm gave to GOP Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, August 21, 2004 A Colorado company under contract to ensure that the nation's touch-screen voting machines are accurate has been a substantial contributor to Republican candidates and groups. |
Electronic voting controversy? Not here Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, August 21, 2004 Unless there's a landslide in the upcoming Nov. 2 presidential election, the seeds have already been sown for another post-election controversy. If this year's showdown between Republican President George W. Bush and the Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, is as close as polls show, a post-election controversy may be inevitable. |
EDITORIAL Every vote must count Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 20, 2004 IN A DEMOCRACY, perhaps the only thing more frustrating than being denied the right to vote is voting without ever really knowing whether your ballot was actually counted. That is why 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. |
Lawyers for Fla. congressman argue for paper ballots Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 20, 2004 ATLANTA - Lawyers for a Florida congressman argued Friday to keep alive a legal battle to require the state's voting machines to create paper ballots. Attorneys for U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, a Democrat, told members of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that a district judge wrongly threw out Wexler's lawsuit. |
Johnson County Election Issues Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 20, 2004 (Johnson County) - Johnson County voters may not be using their touch-screen voting machines in the November 2nd election, because the company that makes those machines didn't meet Friday's deadline. |
Techies Praised for E-Vote Work Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 20, 2004 The new national elections chairman this week praised computer scientists for calling attention to security problems with e-voting machines and for helping develop new standards for building machines that will be more secure in the future. "The country owes you a debt of thanks to have taken this challenge of voting systems seriously," DeForest B. Soaries Jr., chairman of the newly formed federal Election Assistance Commission, said to members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE, who are in the process of drafting new standards for electronic voting systems. |
California relents on touch-screen balloting use for November election Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 20, 2004 California's top elections official has officially re-certified Alameda County's touch-screen voting system for use in the November election. Despite problems in the November election, Piedmont City Clerk Ann Swift supports the move. |
Venezuela dispute shows e-voting hazards for U.S., critics say Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 20, 2004 WASHINGTON The disputed presidential recall referendum in Venezuela offers ominous lessons about the use of electronic voting machines in U.S. elections this November, critics of the process are warning. |
Lower court to hear arguments for voter paper trail Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 20, 2004 ANNAPOLIS A group suing the state Board of Elections acknowledged today that its fight to eliminate Maryland's computerized voting machines by November has failed. But members still hope a Circuit Court judge will require elections officials to guarantee a paper trail. |
Local residents will get to test voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 19, 2004 As part of the federal grant agreement, ES&S will conduct the county’s first election using the iVotronic, said Connie Moody, director of voter registration and elections for Greenwood County. The equipment will not go into use until November, she said, when county election staff functions mostly as observers and consultants. |
Hold primary as scheduled Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 19, 2004 During the past few weeks, the Florida Division of Elections has caused plenty of political turbulence with its bumbling and seeming partisanship. In the wake of Hurricane Charley, the state must deal with election problems that have resulted from a real storm. Yet Secretary of State Glenda Hood still seems eager to avoid the issue. |
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