Trust of electorate is worth the wait    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, April 8, 2004 Editorial in Seneca County Advertiser-Tribune Electronic voting machines really are the way to go. The Advertiser-Tribune supported Ohio's moving toward their use right after the furor caused by the 2000 presidential election. However, enough concerns have been raised about the security of votes - even though the electronic machines have been used without trouble in some Ohio locales - that restraint is prudent.

The touch-screen holy grail    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, April 8, 2004 Opinion in San Jose Mercury An electronic voting system that's cheap, secure, accurate and easy to use. One that uses off-the-shelf hardware and publicly examinable software. One that voters can trust. A prototype of such a system the holy grail of election officials was on display last week in San Jose. It looked like the real deal.

Legislators call for Ohio voter paper trail    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, April 8, 2004 By JAMES DREW for the Toledo Blade COLUMBUS - All voting machines used in Ohio after Jan. 1, 2006, must provide a paper record to enable voters to verify their ballots, a legislative committee recommended yesterday.

New electronic scanners miscounted some county votes    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, April 8, 2004 by Gig Conaughton for the North County Times SAN DIEGO A month after problems with their new, $31 million electronic voting system caused 36 percent of polling places to open late to voters, San Diego County officials said Wednesday that a different error resulted in 2,821 votes being miscounted.

See-Through Voting Software    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, April 8, 2004 by Kim Zetter in WiredNews VoteHere, an electronic voting systems company, released its source code this week in a bid to let others examine how the machines work and help people gain confidence in the e-voting process.

Some votes miscounted in primary, officials say    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, April 8, 2004 By Luis Monteagudo Jr. and Helen Gao for the San Diego Union-Tribune County officials said yesterday they discovered a new problem with the flawed March election – 2,821 absentee ballots that were miscounted in the Democratic presidential and Senate Republican primaries. The miscounted paper ballots did not affect the outcome of the races, and county officials have corrected the results.

Black Box Voting    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, April 7, 2004 By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman for Axis Of Logic Diebold's Political Machine: Political insiders suggest Ohio could become as decisive this year as Florida was four years ago. Which is why the state's plan to use paperless touch-screen voting machines has so many up in arms

Touchscreen voting machines OK?d for May primary    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, April 7, 2004 By JASON MICHAEL WHITE for the Johnson Co. Daily Journal Voters will be allowed to use new touchscreen machines in May’s primary now that an election company has resubmitted a $10 million bond to the state.

Panel may urge paper receipts for electronic voting machines    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, April 7, 2004 by Julie Carr Smyth for the Cleveland Plain Dealer Columbus - A legislative panel is poised to recommend what the most strident critics of electronic voting machines have demanded for months: paper receipts for voters.

Panel Recommends Paper Receipts For 2006 Elections    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, April 7, 2004 News Channel5 - Cleveland/Akron COLUMBUS, Ohio A House-Senate committee studying the security of electronic voting machines recommended Wednesday that boards of election be required to allow Ohio voters to confirm their choices with a paper receipt, beginning in 2006 elections.

Due to new laws, Scott County may have to trash new voting equipment    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, April 7, 2004 By Deirdre Cox Baker for the Quad-Cities Times Scott County’s “state-of-the-art” vote counting machines could be headed for the garbage dump if the county does not win an exemption from the Help America Vote Act, or HAVA. Auditor Karen Fitzsimmons told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday that the pricey equipment is being challenged according to the standards for HAVA, the legislation that arose from the 2000 presidential election dispute.

City's election network truly plugged in    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, April 7, 2004 By JESSE GARZA and RAQUEL RUTLEDGE for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The city's 202 polling places use a network of technology that transforms thousands of paper ballots into eagerly anticipated results that are available - if all goes right - within three hours of when the polls close.

McNerney calls for a vote recount    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, April 7, 2004 By Matt Carter, STAFF WRITER in the Tri-Valley Herald PLEASANTON Gerald McNerney's future as a congressional candidate may depend on what's written on thousands of ballots that have been shrink-wrapped and stacked on pallets in a warehouse in Martinez.

Ross County may still get electronic voting machines    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, April 7, 2004 By DANIEL PRAZER in the Chillicothe Gazette Ross County may have a shot at having a batch of new voting machines for free. After being originally told it would not be eligible for federal and state money to purchase electronic polling machines because the county already uses push-button electronic devices, the Ross Count Board of Elections has been told otherwise.

Recount underway in supervisorial race    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, April 7, 2004 By MICHAEL CORONADO / The Press-Enterprise The Riverside County Registrar's office today began an official recount of the District 1 supervisorial race. Political hopeful Linda Soubirous requested a manual count following the election, in which her opponent, supervisor Bob Buster, narrowly avoided a November runoff by winning 50 percent plus one of votes cast.

E-voting firm opens up its code    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, April 6, 2004 By Alan Boyle, Science Editor for MSNBC BELLEVUE, Wash. - A software company voluntarily released the source code for its paperless ballot verification system on Tuesday, marking a first in the increasingly controversial electronic-voting market.

Faking Democracy: Americans Don't Vote; Machines Do    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, April 6, 2004 by Lynn Landes Machines will produce 99.4% of the election results for the upcoming 2004 presidential election. With all the hoopla over voting machine "glitches," porous software, leaked memos, and the creepy corporations that sell and service these contraptions, and with all the controversy that surrounds campaign financing, voter registration, redistricting issues, and the general privatization of the election process - we are missing the boat on the biggest crisis facing our democracy.

Electronic vote 'receipt' can wait, Gardner says    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, April 6, 2004 Toledo BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU CHIEF COLUMBUS - State government should not immediately require that new electronic voting machines provide "receipts" that would enable citizens to verify their votes, the chairman of a legislative committee said yesterday.

Election contractor has one more chance    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, April 6, 2004 By JASON MICHAEL WHITE for the Johnson County Daily Journal Johnson County voters won’t get to use new touchscreen machines in May’s primary after all if an election company doesn’t resubmit a $10 million bond to the state by Wednesday.

Blind voter able to cast secret ballot    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, April 6, 2004 By JOHN MARTIN Indiana Courier & Press staff Rob Kerney called the experience "quite exhilarating." For the first time since Kerney lost his eyesight, he voted in an election Monday morning with no one knowing his choices.

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