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Committee ponders e-voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 21, 2004 The controversy over electronic voting machines continues to foment as the November election approaches, and some state officials are putting the brakes on plans to adopt touch-screen machines. |
Computer scientist defends security community stance on e-voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 21, 2004 WASHINGTON The computer science professor at the center of the controversy over electronic voting system security told members of Congress yesterday that policymakers made "a mistake" by not conferring with security experts about voting system technologies. And he said that using the systems in November without first fixing the security flaws would be "irresponsible." |
Pender County Election Problems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 21, 2004 When just one electronic voting machine goes down it can throw a huge wrench in tallying election night results. That's not the only problem that cropped up on election day. |
Deutsch unveils elections proposal Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 20, 2004 In one of the opening scenes of Fahrenheit 9/11, one black member of Congress after another desperately tries to block certification of the 2000 presidential election. Lacking a single supporter in the U.S. Senate, they fail. |
DeKalb precinct to stay open an extra hour Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 20, 2004 A DeKalb County precinct will be held open an extra hour tonight due to problems earlier today with electronic voting machines. Poll workers had problems encoding voter access cards this morning at Allgood Elementary School in Stone Mountain. The problem was corrected within an hour. But elections officials asked a judge to keep the precinct open until 8 p.m. to make up for the lost time. Similar problems in south Georgia's Irwin County also led to a one-hour extension on voting. |
State elections supervisors squabbling Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 20, 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Leon County elections supervisor Ion Sancho apparently won't win any popularity contests among his 66 colleagues across the state, or in the secretary of state's office for that matter. |
Experts call for voting safeguards Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 20, 2004 The U.S. risks a repeat of the 2000 election debacle unless basic steps are taken soon to shore up lax voting procedures, an expert panel warned yesterday. A joint report from the Massachusetts and California institutes of technology outlined simple steps meant to ensure that votes are tabulated more accurately. |
Nelson: Test touch screens Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 20, 2004 U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has asked the Justice Department to investigate the impact of computer touch-screen voting machines in counties where many black voters live and asked the state to thoroughly test the systems before the presidential election. |
Making each vote count Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 20, 2004 PASADENA A team of professors from Caltech and MIT on Monday released a set of recommendations to improve the way votes are counted and minimize the chance that ballots will be lost, misread or invalidated in the upcoming presidential election. |
Fedor, Ujvagi seek to lease vote machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 20, 2004 Democratic lawmakers Teresa Fedor and Peter Ujvagi yesterday called for Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell to use some of the money set aside to buy new voting equipment around the state to pay for Lucas County to rent optical scan voting machines for the November election. |
Elections contract awarded Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 20, 2004 COLUMBIAThe state's chief procurement officer quietly awarded a Nebraska company a $37.7 million contract Monday to fit South Carolina with a statewide electronic voting system. |
More Florida Ballot Woes On Tap? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 20, 2004 Four years after the Florida vote-counting fiasco, concerns over the reliability of ballots in the Sunshine State remain. Though improvements have been made, with less than four months until the state's 27 electoral votes go up for grabs, the lack of a paper trail has belied confidence in new electronic voting equipment. |
Securing e-voting will be a long-term effort Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 20, 2004 A House panel today struggled with the questions of how to set standards for acceptable error rates in voting technology and how to achieve those standards. Government officials, computer scientists and technology vendors agreed that it is too late for legislation or technology to have much of an impact on the 2004 election. |
Parties promote absentee ballots Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 19, 2004 Nearly four years after absentee ballots helped hand George W. Bush a 537-vote victory in Florida and the presidency, political strategists from both parties are pushing to get the ballots into the hands of even more voters in the upcoming election. |
Maryland Activists Want E-Voting Receipts Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 19, 2004 Melanie Vaughan-West arrived at the Maryland State House in Annapolis last Tuesday to demand something she never had before a receipt for her vote. |
Critics watching voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 19, 2004 Georgia elections officials say they've tightened the security over the state's electronic voting system. But critics of the state's 23,000 touch-screen machines continue to believe they are susceptible to vote-rigging. |
E-voting: Enough, protesters say Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 19, 2004 What started as the dissent of a few computer scientists and good-government watchdogs in Santa Clara County 18 months ago has grown into a national movement. |
E-voting verification pilot planned in fall Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 19, 2004 An electronic voting machine company has agreed to load election security technology from VoteHere Inc. on some of its machines to test the encrypted vote verification system in the fall election. |
Junior Florida senator says he's worried about voting technology Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 19, 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson asked the federal government Monday to audit touchscreen voting machines that are to be used in 15 Florida counties in statewide elections next month and in November. In a letter sent Monday to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, the Democrat asked for an independent Department of Justice audit of the touchscreen machines. |
State s voting machine vendor Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 19, 2004 COLUMBIA, S.C. - The State Election Commission will use an Omaha, Nebraska, company for new voting machines in 14 counties. State Election Commission Director Marci Andino says the commission decided Monday to award the contract, worth up to $37 million, to Election Systems and Software. |
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