Touch screens clear another legal hurdle Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 7, 2004 By SARA OLKON for Miami Herald 07 August 2004 A state appeals court Friday tossed out a lawsuit filed by U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler over the state's use of touch-screen voting machines, without a paper record.
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Optical-scan beats touch-screen in '02 voting study Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 7, 2004 by S.V.Date in the Palm Beach Post 07 August 2004 TALLAHASSEE Even as state and local elections officials defend "touch-screen" voting machines against charges of inaccuracy, an 18-month-old state report detailed the machines' higher "undervote" rate in the 2002 election.
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Elections chief, senator fire back Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 7, 2004 by Dara Kam in the Palm Beach Post 07 August 2004 TALLAHASSEE Sen. Ron Klein and Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore agree on one thing: They've both had it.
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Election watchdog could face charges Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 7, 2004 By Ryan Morgan, Daily Camera Staff Writer 07 August 2004 An election watchdog could face criminal charges after a confrontation with Boulder County election officials this week.
Boulder County sheriff's deputies are investigating an incident that occurred when Al Kolwicz, a longtime critic of election practices across the state, showed up to observe a test at the county's election headquarters on Thursday.
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S.C. Voting to Go Paperless Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 7, 2004 Editorial in the Myrtle Beach Sun News 07 August 2004 Electronic touch-screen voting machines that make no paper record of votes cast are OK for South Carolina, Attorney General Henry McMaster said this week. But his ruling does little to erase the doubts of many South Carolinians that such voting systems are prone to flaws and manipulation.
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Court rejects U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler?s lawsuit over touch-screen voting machines Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 7, 2004 By Jeremy Milarsky for the South Florida Sun Sentinel 07 August 2004 A panel of state appellate court judges dismissed U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler's lawsuit over touch-screen voting machines Friday, saying that while the right to vote is fundamental state officials don't need to guarantee a perfect voting system.
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Voting machine affirmation Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 7, 2004 Editorial in the Charleston Post and Courier State Attorney General Henry McMaster and his staff have done a commendable job of researching the disruptive fuss over the state's new voting machines, including allegations that they don't meet the new federal law passed after the Florida election debacle. The attorney general has found those allegations without merit in a persuasive opinion issued Thursday that should put the matter to rest and allow the installation of electronic machines before the November general election.
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Candidate skeptical about electronic voting machines Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 7, 2004 USA Today. By Dale Wetzel, Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. ? North Dakota should avoid installing "touch-screen" electronic voting machines at the polls, unless they provide paper confirmation of how each person voted, the Democratic candidate for secretary of state believes.
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A Rule to Avert Balloting Woes Adds to Them Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 6, 2004 By FORD FESSENDEN in the New York Times 06 August 2004 CHICAGO - When poll workers could not find Kelly Pierce's name on the registration rolls during the primary here in March, they told him to take advantage of a new election rule that allowed him to cast his vote using a provisional ballot.
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Counties urged to add paper ballots Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 6, 2004 By Nancy Cook Lauer in the Tallahassee Democrat 06 August 2004 Democratic leaders in the Legislature are calling for counties using touch-screen voting machines to add a paper ballot system for voters who don't trust the touch-screens.
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Appeals court approves dismissal of Wexler's voting suit Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 6, 2004 By JILL BARTON for the Associated Press 06 August 2004 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. A Democratic congressman who wants to add a paper trail to Florida's new voting machines lost another legal battle on Friday when a state appeals court agreed his lawsuit should be dismissed
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Many black voters in South Florida wary of election system Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 6, 2004 By Gregory Lewis and Toni Marshall in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel 06 August 2004 Rosa Thornton, a senior citizen living in northwest Fort Lauderdale, definitely plans to vote in the Aug. 31 primary and the Nov. 2 general election. "I always vote," she said. "I just have no plans to do it at the polls."
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County set for voting, Burgess declares Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 6, 2004 BY CHARLES RABIN for the Miami Herald 06 August 2004 Responding to mounting pressure from voting advocacy groups and some county leaders, Miami-Dade County Manager George Burgess returned from a long-planned vacation Thursday to declare that his staff is doing all it can to prepare for the upcoming elections.
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Flawed Florida Touch Screens Draw Scrutiny Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 6, 2004 By John-Thor Dahlburg, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer 06 August 2004 MIAMI — Floridians worried about the reliability of touch-screen voting got more fodder for their fears Thursday: belated public scrutiny of a report on tens of thousands of ballots tossed out for irregularities in the state's most recent general election.
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Older devices beat touch-screens? results in ?02 election, report says Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 6, 2004 By Jeremy Milarsky for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel 06 August 2004 Florida's relatively new touch-screen voting machines performed more poorly than older optical-scan machines during the 2002 gubernatorial election, according to a state report.
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McMaster approves new voting system Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 6, 2004 BY CLAY BARBOUR for the Charleston Post and Courier 06 August 2004 COLUMBIAA day after the multi-million dollar contract for voting machines became official, S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster gave his approval to the controversial computerized system meant to overhaul South Carolina elections.
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Pentagon works to get out the vote Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 6, 2004 by PAULINE JELINEK The Associated Press 06 August 2004 WASHINGTON - The Pentagon, faced with nearly a half-million troops overseas, has set up a Web site for absentee voters and promised faster mail service as it pushes several programs to avert a repeat of the balloting problems of the 2000 election.
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Candidate skeptical about electronic voting machines Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, August 6, 2004 By DALE WETZEL Associated Press Writer 06 August 2004 North Dakota should avoid installing "touch-screen" electronic voting machines at the polls, unless they provide paper confirmation of how each person voted, the Democratic candidate for secretary of state believes.
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A Broken System Stays Broken Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004 by Jillian Matundan for the Gotham Gazette 05 August 2004 Few have completely forgotten the debacle in Florida during the presidential election of 2000, where thousands of voters were disenfranchised because their ballot was so confusing that they chose the wrong candidate (the so-called "butterfly ballots"), or because the ballots were so poorly designed that it wasn't clear who the voter had voted for (the "hanging chads"), or because they were simply d from the voting rolls. Manual recounts took months, and then it was the Supreme Court who decided the presidency.
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A World of Suspicion Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004 by Tara Treasurefield in the North Bay Bohemian 05 August 2004 Only a few months ago, Napa County supervisor Mike Rippey was at ease in a world based on trust. He assumed that the voting system was reliable, secure and accurate. But now, like thousands of other Americans for whom election results just don't compute anymore, he resides in a world of doubt and suspicion.
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