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Touch-screen electronic voting battle rages on Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 16, 2004 SAN BERNARDINO — Electronic voting machines must meet a state standard that establishes a paper audit trail by 2006, Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's office announced Tuesday. The standard, called Accessible Voter Verified Audit Trail, allows voters to see who they voted for through a printout displayed under glass or plastic. An official for Shelley's office said the paper trail is needed to guarantee the accuracy of electronic voting systems. |
State Sets Standard for E-Voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 16, 2004 The California secretary of state on Tuesday released the first standards in the nation for a voter-verified paper trail for electronic voting machines, in an effort to restore voter confidence in the devices. The standards (PDF) come six months after Secretary of State Kevin Shelley mandated that all new e-voting machines purchased in the state produce a paper trail by July 2005. |
Elections Establishment still missing message Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 16, 2004 The hope was that last week's conference of elections supervisors in Key West would show that the state has corrected all the problems that created the 2000 fiasco. Instead, the meeting raised more concerns and more issues. |
Dist. 20 Primary Recount Monday; Beasley, Dist. 53, Asks for Recount Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 16, 2004 The Republican primary recount in Senate District 20 is scheduled for 9 a.m. June 21 in the crime lab in Augusta to determine if the June 8 outcome stands. The recorded results give Dana Dow of Waldoboro a slim lead over Les Fossel of Alna. |
Voting device flaws known in 2002 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 16, 2004 TALLAHASSEE - The manufacturer of the touch-screen voting machines used widely in Florida and elections officials in at least one county knew as early as 2002 about a flaw in the computer's audit system. Electronic Systems & Software, of Omaha, Neb., first learned of the problems with the computer's ability to reconstruct an election when elections officials in Lee County discovered the problem after the November 2002 contest. |
League still backs state's voting system Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, June 15, 2004 The head of Georgia's League of Women Voters said Tuesday the chapter still supports the state's electronic voting system, despite concerns among the group's national membership over the security of such systems. |
Two Jasper County Council incumbents file protests Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, June 15, 2004 Two Jasper County Council incumbents who lost their re-election bids in last week's primary have filed protests with the county Democratic Party. |
New Questions Arise About Touch-Screen Voting Machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, May 27, 2004 For the second time in two weeks, an internal memo from a Miami-Dade County election official in Florida has exposed a new round of auditing flaws that have plagued the iVotronic touch-screen voting machines used in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. |
No explanation for ballot machine malfunction Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, May 27, 2004 No one has accepted responsibility for a malfunction in a ballot scanner that forced Fulton County election officials to count ballots by hand for the primary election May 18. |
Utah voters cling to punch cards: Cost of machines, chance of glitches are major concerns Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 24, 2004 When it comes to the technology of voting, Utah is being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century ? joining other states that are throwing their own tantrums. |
Diebold reports multiple problems: Registrar wants reason for e-voting Story Here |
| Published:Tuesday, April 13, 2004 Electronic devices that held the key to digital voting in Alameda County's Super Tuesday primary failed in at least a half dozen ways, hobbling the $12.7 million voting system at a quarter of polling places. |
Cumberland County urged to replace voting equipment Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 9, 2004 BRIDGETON Cumberland County elections officials issued dire warnings Thursday to the freeholder board over a lack of progress in preparing for a costly transition to electronic voting. State and federal governments directed that mechanical voting machines be replaced by electronic machines no later than January 2006. |
Warren assured e-voting is secure Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 9, 2004 WARRENTON - A representative of the company that manufactured Warren County's electronic voting machines assured the Board of Elections on Thursday evening that its equipment is reliable and nearly tamper-proof. |
Lose the paranoia about electronic voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 9, 2004 As America moves toward a new way of casting ballots, the prospect of change combined with reliance on technology puts a whiff of paranoia back in the air. After the 2000 Florida debacle, raising doubts about the integrity of the election process is as easy as Key lime pie. |
eSlate described as easy to use, could be tallying Hamilton County next year Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 9, 2004 Ohio's chief elections official picked a new electronic voting system for Hamilton County on Thursday that could be in use as early as February. |
Possible suit against election group on hold Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 9, 2004 Georgetown County will probably wait until the end of the month before deciding whether it will file a lawsuit against the State Election Commission over the purchase of new voting machines. If it decides to take legal action at least one other county has indicated a willingness to join the suit. |
Welcome to the machine Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 9, 2004 Trust, but verify. Ronald Reagan's famous mantra for arms control applies just as well to the way we conduct elections. After the 2000 federal election fiasco in Florida, Congress rushed to modernize the way Americans vote. Many states quickly turned to direct recording equipment (DRE) “also known as touch-screen machines” to electronically record, count, and report our votes. Alaska has begun to purchase these machines as well. |
County's vote-counting snafu crops up in San Diego Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 9, 2004 Diebold Election Systems gave one explanation after another to Alameda County officials last year when its machines switched thousands of Democratic absentee votes to a Southern California socialist. |
Ohio Legislative Committee Wants Paper Backup for Touch-Screen Voting Machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 9, 2004 Apr. 8COLUMBUS, Ohio - A state legislative committee reviewing voting security wants Ohio to rebid its vending contracts so that each touch-screen machine has a paper backup. |
Nation's voting system no more ready now than in 2000, panel says Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 9, 2004 When the nation turns out to cast ballots in this fall's elections, the voting system will be in no better shape than it was in 2000, a panel of voting experts said Friday. |
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