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'Daily Voting News' For October 14, 2008 Story Here |
A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
Programming glitch affects ballots statewide (WV) Story Here Archive |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. A programming glitch is forcing election officials in Kanawha and 18 other counties to retest their optical scanning voting machines on the eve of the general election. Early voting begins Wednesday for the 2008 election. But Kanawha County Clerk Vera McCormick said a programming error in the state's automated voting machines could have resulted in incorrect results for at least one state race. |
Last Minute Test For Voting Machines (WV) Story Here Archive |
"Disgusted!" That's how Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper describes the error made by ES&S, the company that provides the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office with software for election machines. |
Day before early voting, glitch found with machines (WV) Story Here Archive |
On the eve of early voting, problems with the general election ballots are causing Kanawha County officials to conduct an emergency test of its voting machines. On Monday, the Secretary of State's office notified the County Clerk's office of a problem in the programming cards used in the M100 machines. |
Don’t do it, Karen! (GA) Story Here Archive |
Enough complaints have already piled up to make us wonder if Handel is not well on her way to getting Georgia just where we don’t want to be: on the network news and page one of The New York Times. |
'Daily Voting News' For October 13, 2008 Story Here |
A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
Orange blames computer glich for erroneous voter letters (FL) Story Here Archive |
About 1,245 Orange County residents were erroneously mailed letters last week stating they were ineligible to vote in the upcoming election, the Orange County Supervisor of Elections office confirmed Monday. |
State official: Election computers not compromised (OH) Story Here Archive |
After last week's firing of Putnam County's elections chief for upgrading voting software, the company tested the machines and said they were not compromised and are compliant with state regulations. This testing was conducted Thursday after the Putnam County Board of Elections fired Director Virginia Price. The firing was sparked by a notice from the Ohio Secretary of State's Office that the county's voting software was upgraded without the state's authorization |
'Daily Voting News' For October 12, 2008 Story Here |
A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
'Daily Voting News' For October 11, 2008 Story Here |
A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
'Daily Voting News' For October 10, 2008 Story Here |
A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
'Daily Voting News' For October 09, 2008 Story Here |
A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
Electronic voting glitch reported in Delcambre race (LA) Story Here Archive |
Sons said a glitch in the Vermilion Parish Clerk of Court’s electronic voting system prevented District 3 voters in Delcambre from voting for him or for Derise, both Democrats, from the time the polls opened at 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. “It locked me and my opponent out from District 3 until 1 p.m.,” Sons said. “However, it did allow people in District 2 to vote for me and my opponent.” |
'Daily Voting News' For October 08, 2008 Story Here |
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'Daily Voting News' For October 07, 2008 Story Here |
A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
Florida Primary Recount Surfaces Grave Voting Problems One Month Before Presidential Election Story Here Archive |
A month of primary recounts in the election battleground of Palm Beach County, Florida, have twice flipped the winner in a local judicial race and revealed grave problems in the county's election infrastructure, including thousands of misplaced ballots and vote tabulation machines that are literally unable to produce the same results twice. |
Computer system caused voting delays in Nebraska Story Here Archive |
A problem with Nebraska's voter registration computer system Monday caused voting delays over the lunch hour at election offices across the state. |
Ballot machines for early voting down again today (NC) Story Here Archive |
The early voting was scheduled to begin Monday, but the county elections received the incorrect password from the state for the ballot machines, according to the elections office. |
Equipment testing delays absentee voting another day (SC) Story Here Archive |
The machines weren't available for voters Tuesday because the testing, which is used to ensurethe ballots correctly record votes, took longer than expected, said Beaufort County elections office director Agnes Garvin. On Monday, the machines weren't ready because the county discovered Sunday it had the wrong password needed to upload its ballot information to the state commission for approval. |
Bucks awaits voting figures, machine count (PA) Story Here Archive |
As of Friday, Dean said, voter totals showed 808 machines would be needed. The county already has 765 Danaher electronic voting machines in its inventory. Dean said polling places with 1,400 or fewer voters need two machines, 1,401 to 1,900 voters mean three machines and more than 1,900 voters require four machines. |
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