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Dade official seeking monitor for vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, August 10, 2004 Miami-Dade Commission Chairwoman Barbara Carey-Shuler has asked the county manager to let an independent organization monitor the county's primary election in three weeks and the presidential election in November. |
Maryland voters file petition against e-voting system Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, August 10, 2004 AUGUST 10, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Eight Maryland voters have asked an appeals court to force the Maryland State Board of Elections (SBE) to address alleged security risks in an electronic voting machine system and provide a voter-verified paper trail during elections. |
Electronic voting at center of fight Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, August 9, 2004 A cartoon about electronic voting in eWeek magazine shows a slot machine with a "vote" button on one side and the faces of President Bush and challenger John Kerry where the bars and cherries would normally be. Florida elections officials would not be amused. They remain steadfast that computer touch-screen voting can be trusted to use for the first time in a presidential election this fall. |
E-Voting Plaintiffs Appeal to MD's Highest Court Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, August 9, 2004 WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ Lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis LLP who represent eight plaintiffs in Linda Schade vs. Linda Lamone and the Maryland State Board of Elections filed petitions with the Maryland Court of Appeals today seeking to force the Elections Board to either fix or decertify the controversial Diebold electronic voting systems as required by Maryland state law. |
Do more to abate valid election concerns Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, August 9, 2004 It's too bad that Miami-Dade County Manager George Burgess had to cut short his vacation to return to County Hall last week to respond to growing mistrust in the accuracy and fairness of the fall elections. But it is heartening that Mr. Burgess shows a strong sense of responsibility for the election process. Even better was his announcement that the county's Office of Inspector General and Office of Audit and Management will devote their considerable abilities to ensuring that all the T's are crossed and the I's are dotted during the weeks leading up to the Aug. 31 and Nov. 2 elections. |
In Annapolis visit, Nader faults Md. voting system Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, August 9, 2004 ANNAPOLIS Presidential candidate Ralph Nader today offered his campaign as a vehicle to "create a democracy activist corps" of poll watchers to monitor use of touch-screen voting machines in Maryland and other states in the November election. |
Ballot foul-up cancels Georgia Court of Appeals runoff election Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, August 9, 2004 ATLANTA - Attorney Mike Sheffield spent an estimated $10,000 in three weeks to try to distinguish himself from his election opponent. Now, he might have to spend more to separate himself from five opponents. |
New voting system falls short of verifiable Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, August 9, 2004 While The State has devoted considerable ink to the debate over the Election Commission’s plan to buy new voting machines, much of it has been in support of the $46.5 million acquisition. Those critical of the state’s plan have been labeled Luddites, accused of playing Chicken Little and dismissed as part of an “Internet-based movement of paranoia.” Those charges are unfair and deflect rather than address the serious questions voters have about the process used to procure the machines and the efficiency of the machines themselves. |
Critics: Riverside County resists change Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 8, 2004 Activists in California's sizzling electronic-voting debate and a lawsuit by a losing candidate in the March primary suggest Riverside County has repeatedly resisted attempts to make the touchscreen ballots more tamper-proof, at a time when rapid technological advance is bringing sweeping change to elections. |
4 Years On, Voting Uncertainty Lingers Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 8, 2004 TALLAHASSEE - Voting is a right that Florence Zoltowsky has never taken for granted. Sixty years ago, she was forced into hiding as Nazis occupied her Polish hometown. The horrors of the Holocaust embedded in Zoltowsky, now a 74-year-old Boynton Beach retiree, a fervor for freedom and for maintaining a voice in the political process. |
Will machines decide who'll be president? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 8, 2004 If 2000 was the "Year of the Hanging Chad," then 2004 is shaping up to be the "Year of the Hacked Vote." Nearly a third of the ballots cast in this year's general election could be altered, lost or misread because of insecure or faulty electronic voting machines, computer-security experts and voters-rights advocates say. |
Absentee isn't a guarantee Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 8, 2004 Victoria Mraz had never voted with an absentee ballot before the March Democratic presidential primary. She's not sure she'll ever do it again. |
For Some, Proof Is in Paper Vote Receipt Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 8, 2004 Melanie Vaughan-West arrived at the Maryland State House in Annapolis last month to demand something she never had before a receipt for her vote. |
Ruckus smacks voters' trust down for count Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 8, 2004 I think there ought to be a new word to describe what's happening to voting in Florida. Publixification. That would be my word for it. It's the best way to describe the "Paper or plastic?" paranoia that is spreading way beyond the borders of what might be normally assumed to be the lunatic fringe. |
Feds mandate election changes 08-08-2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 8, 2004 The county has another federal mandate to deal with. Yet unlike most of them, this one will be funded by the government - at least partially so. We´re mandated to have it in place by Jan. 1, 2006,” said County Clerk Diane Williams. “But we hope to have it up and running by for the November 2005 constitutional-amendment election so we can introduce it to the public on a relatively easy election, compared to candidate elections. |
The perils of electronic voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 8, 2004 In August 2003, a large portion of the Northeast United States, including all of New York City, suffered a two-day blackout because of a software glitch in one of the power grid control systems. |
Confidence key for touch-screen voting in Alaska Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 8, 2004 One of the changes I looked forward to soon after my inauguration as lieutenant governor was ensuring that Alaska's visually impaired, blind and disabled voters would be able to vote secret, independent and verifiable ballots. With Rep. Joe Green, who has since retired, I sponsored legislation providing for this in Alaska. |
Let's restore confidence in the integrity of the vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 8, 2004 T he election on Nov. 2 will be different from any previous American election, for reasons having nothing to do with President Bush, John Kerry, Iraq, terrorism or the economy. |
Rolling Down the Highway, Looking Out for Flawed Elections Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 8, 2004 KINGMAN, Ariz. — The elections director of Mohave County, Ariz., was so proud of his new electronic voting system that Bev Harris barely had the heart to point out its vulnerabilities. But she did, and before long she was ticking off the ways that she said an outsider could hijack his central tabulator - the computer that stores all of the county's votes - and steal an election. |
Company will provide paper ballots Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, August 7, 2004 Election Systems and Software will be able to provide paper ballots for November’s election if touchscreen voting machines are not certified in two weeks, the company said Friday. |
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