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Is staff 'the Achilles' heel' at polls? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 1, 2004 They have been called the weakest link in Florida's election system, the last defense between a well-run democracy and a banana republic. They also may be the most overlooked of all the potential problems facing Florida's election system. |
Progressives Split Over Electronic Voting Machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 1, 2004 Aug 1 - Fractures between disabled and non-disabled activists within the broad progressive movement have been common in recent decades, and have emerged once again in the fight over electronic voting machines. |
Rush to absentee ballots may magnify trouble Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 1, 2004 Despite instructions that clearly explain how to connect arrows so their votes will be counted, warnings to vote for only one candidate and admonitions not to erase, at least 150 Palm Beach County voters managed to mess up their absentee ballots in the March presidential primary. |
Voting systems poised to tally Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 1, 2004 A month before the primary elections, Treasure Coast voters are suffering glancing blows from the preelection clashes to the south. |
LePore: We'll be ready for elections Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 1, 2004 Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore sits in her "war room" about 30 days before the ballot battles of 2004 begin. She is finalizing preparations for the Aug. 31 primaries and bolstering her troops for The Big One: the Nov. 2 general election that will pick the next president. |
Florida elections in the national spotlight Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 1, 2004 The national spotlight will shine brighter on Florida on Nov. 2 than on any other state. The reasons go beyond the 2000 presidential debacle. After all, even if Florida had enjoyed smooth elections in the four years since, and even if its new electronic voting equipment didn't continue to pose reliability and accuracy questions, the state has one other unique factor that draws attention to it on Election Day. President Bush's brother Jeb is Florida's governor. |
Don't Touch That Screen Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 1, 2004 In these days of everything electronic, sometimes paper still triumphs. In April, California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley rocked the brave new world of touch-screen voting by banning machines that don't generate a paper confirmation of each vote, unless the 15 counties using them adopted a strict set of guidelines. Anti-touch-screen activists lauded the move, but Riverside, San Bernardino, Kern and Plumas counties and disability advocates filed suit, claiming the edict violated the Americans with Disabilities Act because the machines made it easier for the visually and manually impaired to vote. |
No reason to delay buying new voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 1, 2004 OUR STATE IS IN danger of disenfranchising thousands of voters, not to mention squandering millions of dollars we can’t afford to waste. All in the name of protecting against election fraud. Critics are playing Chicken Little and attempting to undermine public confidence and throw up procedural barriers to a plan to replace unreliable voting machines with state-of-the-art equipment. |
Touch-screen voting may create new problems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 1, 2004 With only three months remaining until the general election, other states are spending millions to buy touch-screen voting machines. Meanwhile, doubts about the devices multiply, with good reason. |
Voting machines and polling places are about to change Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, August 1, 2004 With one national convention at an end and another to begin, the act of voting is in the news. Four years ago the final ion of president hung in the balance for weeks as ballots in Florida were examined and re-examined. At issue was the traditional punch card/butterfly ballot, and whether or not the "chad" had been punched out or not. |
Voting modernization casts doubts Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 31, 2004 The technology revolution that was supposed to modernize voting booths by the November elections is turning out to be, well, not so revolutionary. Disputes over their security and delays in federal funding have slowed the upgrade of U.S. voting machines, promised after the Florida vote-counting debacle in the last presidential election. |
State must not allow a rerun of the 2000 presidential election mess Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 31, 2004 Here we go again. Four years after a razor-thin margin of votes in Florida threw the 2000 presidential election into chaos, things may not be much better in the Sunshine State this November. Technical glitches and suspicion that officials may be manipulating the system for partisan advantage have made bitter post-election disputes all too likely. |
GOP seeking to exploit its failure to fix system Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 31, 2004 Top Republicans in Florida dismiss fears of touch-screen voting as a Democratic scare tactic designed to exploit resentment over the 2000 election. They would be the last group one would expect to find parroting U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler's "don't trust the machines" mantra. |
'Lost' vote data in Miami-Dade just misplaced Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 31, 2004 Miami-Dade election officials said Friday that they found electronic records of recent elections that were thought to be lost in computer crashes, but the explanation did little to ease the swirl of controversy that again put the county's voting process under scrutiny. |
How They Could Steal the Election This Time Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 30, 2004 On November 2 millions of Americans will cast their votes for President in computerized voting systems that can be rigged by corporate or local-election insiders. Some 98 million citizens, five out of every six of the roughly 115 million who will go to the polls, will consign their votes into computers that unidentified computer programmers, working in the main for four private corporations and the officials of 10,500 election jurisdictions, could program to invisibly falsify the outcomes. |
Elections department working to ensure accurate vote results Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 30, 2004 Be assured that the Miami-Dade County Elections Department is working diligently to ensure that your vote will count. We have come a long way from the 2000 presidential election, in which more than 100,000 overvotes were reportedly cast in Florida, to machines that will not allow even one overvote this year. While voters can choose not to vote in a particular race, our touch-screen voting machines clearly alert voters that they are casting an undervote before allowing them to do so. |
Voting machine woes go on Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 30, 2004 Vanderburgh County Clerk Marsha Abell will try to get answers today from the supplier of touch screen voting equipment on why voting data disappeared in Florida precincts where the firm's system is used. |
GOP sorry for sending flier Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 30, 2004 TALLAHASSEE - The Republican Party of Florida apologized Thursday for sending out a flier over the weekend to some Miami-Dade County Republicans that raised questions about the accuracy of touch-screen machines. |
Optical-scan ballots not too old/new; just right Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 30, 2004 Maybe it's a good thing Volusia County has such a rich electoral history. It means we've achieved a level of election paranoia the rest of the state heck, the rest of the nation only arrived at after the 2000 election. It meant we were readier for the 2000 election. It means we don't have touch-screen voting this year. |
Florida Democrats gearing up to protect voting rights Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 30, 2004 BOSTON - Fresh off their convention, Florida Democrats are issuing renewed calls to protect voters' rights amid questions over new electronic voting machines and an anticipated down-to-the-wire campaign that could mirror the 2000 election. |
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