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Voting machine pay flap unsettled Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 2, 2004 Bills owed to Vanderburgh County's voting machine vendor remain unpaid, and the Election Board concluded Thursday that it can't force county commissioners to pay them. County commissioners have refused to pay Election Systems & Software because new voting machines that the county received from the company, and successfully used in the May 4 primary, do not meet a national certification standard. |
Setback for Counties' E-Vote Effort Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 2, 2004 A federal judge has issued a tentative ruling that deals a blow to four counties — including Riverside and San Bernardino — that challenged the state's temporary ban on electronic voting machines. |
Congressman challenges touch-screen voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 2, 2004 WEST PALM BEACH - Touch-screen voting machines that don't provide a paper printout of the voter's choices violate state election laws, an attorney for South Florida congressman Robert Wexler argued Thursday before a three-judge appeals court panel. Jeffrey Liggio, Wexler's attorney, said it is wrong for Wexler to be barred from challenging the use of the machines. |
County argues vote case in court Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 2, 2004 LOS ANGELES Stung by an unfavorable tentative ruling, attorneys argued in Los Angeles federal court Friday that Riverside County should not have to follow tough, new state guidelines on using touch-screen voting machines in November. |
Protection for Md. Voters Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 The June 18 editorial "At-Risk Voters" asserted that because Maryland is not adopting a paper trail for electronic balloting it is unconcerned about voter confidence. Let me add some perspective: |
New election equipment brings new problems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 LAKE CONROE Dan Wallach, a Rice University Department of Computer Science assistant professor, is a known skeptic of Direct Recording Electronic voting systems, or DREs. |
AccuPoll to acquire NTS Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 Touch-screen voting machine maker AccuPoll Inc. plans to buy NTS Data Services Corp., a provider of voter registration applications and election support services. "AccuPoll's proposed acquisition of NTS will create a full-service election company," said Frank Wiebe, president of AccuPoll, in a statement. |
U.S. district judge refuses to lift state ban on electronic voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 SACRAMENTO - A federal judge in Los Angeles upheld a partial state ban Thursday on electronic voting in the Nov. 2 election, denying a request by advocates for the disabled. In a tentative ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper declined to overturn an April 30 order by Secretary of State Kevin Shelley to ban electronic voting in 14 counties. Four counties and advocates for the disabled sought a temporary restraining order to block Shelley's order. |
E-ballots worrisome to those who value accuracy, fairness Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 No commodity in a democracy is more precious than the right to vote. That's why many county election officials looked silly as they spent the springtime loudly protesting and then filing lawsuits over the decision of California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley to ban touch-screen voting machines in four counties and impose several conditions on all other counties using them. |
Ballot snafu inquiry opens Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 A committee investigating mistakes during the May 4 primary heard Wednesday of broken ballot printers, outraged voters and shocked poll workers in testimony that brought more details to light about the failures. |
A new way to vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 New electronic voting machines slated to replace the punch-card voting system in the general election this November will be available for perusing at a few locations in the county during July. |
N.C. weighs ballot model Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 Four years after the much-disputed presidential election recount in Florida, there are no technology standards in place to guarantee that fiasco won't be repeated. As a result, North Carolina is no closer to an easy, electronic way for voters across the entire state to cast their ballots. The new goal: the 2006 election. |
Journalist to File Federal Lawsuits Against Use of Voting Machines and Absentee Voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 PHILADELPHIA, July 1 /PRNewswire/ On Friday, July 2, two federal Complaints will be filed by freelance journalist Lynn Landes challenging the use of voting machines and absentee voting in elections for political office. The Complaints will be filed against MARGARET TARTAGLIONE, Chair of the City Commissioners of Philadelphia, PEDRO A. CORTES, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and JOHN ASHCROFT, the Attorney General of the United States, at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The Complaints are an unprecedented legal challenge to the use of voting machines and absentee voting. Landes specializes in voting technology and democracy issues. She is acting as her own attorney. |
Electronic ballots in N.C.: Maybe next election Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 Although North Carolina is no closer to an easy, electronic way for voters statewide to cast their ballots than it was in the last presidential election, the state does have strong safeguards, officials say. Some states have rushed to buy new equipment that they don't know how to operate, experts have told Congress. But North Carolina put a moratorium on certifying any new voting equipment until technology concerns are resolved. |
States change policies after SHNS points out problems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 Top election officials in Delaware, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas have vowed they will - for the first time - report the number of ballots cast for every county in their states during the upcoming presidential election. Counting ballots is critical to determining if inaccurate voting machines or improper counting procedures are causing Florida-like tabulating problems. |
E-voting: Nightmare or nirvana? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 30, 2004 If electronic voting were to face an international referendum, it would almost certainly lose. Once the province of a small group of election officials and equipment sellers, e-voting has exploded into the popular consciousness because of a spreading controversy over security and verifiability. Thanks to a concerted effort by opponents and to the missteps of voting machine vendor Diebold Election Systems, most of the news has been bad. |
Lobbyist- Lovin' Lori Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 30, 2004 If Broward County had only listened to Miriam Oliphant, taxpayers could have saved millions of dollars and had a more efficient democracy. Stranger words were never spoken. But it's true. The mega-maligned former Broward supervisor of elections who Gov. Jeb Bush forced out of office last November tried to warn the County Commission against buying widely untested electronic voting machines produced by Nebraska-based Elections Systems & Software (ES&S). |
Groups seek study of August primary to gauge voting systems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 30, 2004 TALLAHASSEE · A coalition of groups Tuesday called on Gov. Jeb Bush to order a statewide study of the August primary election to make sure voting systems work for November's presidential vote. Florida is a key battleground state, and problems have been found with a type of electronic voting machines used by 11 of the state's 67 counties, including some in Central and South Florida. |
Voting machine scrutiny urged Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 30, 2004 Election officials need to have voting machines analyzed, provide more thorough training for election workers and carefully monitor the process to ensure the security of votes in the November election, a report released yesterday recommended. |
Diebold and the dutiful Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 30, 2004 From the electioneering you've seen so far this year, you might not think anyone's testing for logic or accuracy. But in fact four guys spent last week doing just that on about 400 of Columbus' touch-screen voting machines. One guy worked for Columbus' elections office. The other three worked for voting-machine maker Diebold, which is pronounced "dee-bold," like in a soap opera ("Diebold and the Beautiful"). |
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