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Feeney: Florida gets it right on elections Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, April 1, 2004 In the aftermath of the highly controversial 2000 presidential election, the Florida Legislature enacted election reforms that were heralded all over the country on a bipartisan basis as a national model. During the recent presidential-primary election, Florida proved to its voters and the nation that our state can indeed be proud of the way we conduct our elections. |
Registrar of voters defends Florida trip Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, April 1, 2004 Riverside County Registrar of Voters Mischelle Townsend said Wednesday that she did nothing wrong when she accepted travel and lodging last year in Florida from the company that supplied the county's electronic voting system. |
Blackwell breaks tie; local voters to use touch screens Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, April 1, 2004 Voters in Lucas County will use touch-screen voting machines under a decree issued yesterday by Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell. |
Paper Backups Sought for Voting Machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, April 1, 2004 An effort to erase doubts about new ATM-style voting machines by backing up digital votes with paper records is gaining ground nationwide, as state officials heed warnings about security and potentially messy recounts. |
Open Voting Software System Demonstrated Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, April 1, 2004 The Open Voting Consortium (OVC), a group of volunteer engineers and programmers, reached a major milestone Thursday in demonstrating a version of its free election software in a Santa Clara County government office building in San Jose, Calif. |
New Ballot Marking Device from ES&S, AutoMARK Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Election Systems & Software (ES&S) and AutoMARK Technical Systems (ATS), LLC, formerly Vogue Election Systems, today announced the two companies have teamed up to offer the ES&S AutoMARK(TM), breakthrough ballot-marking technology that allows voters with disabilities to mark a ballot privately and independently when using an optical scan voting system. Importantly, this innovation allows jurisdictions that use optical scan systems to comply with the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002, which requires all polling locations to be equipped with at least one disability-accessible voting machine. |
Paper Trail of Ballots Sought Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 31, 2004 The Senate and the House of Delegates are headed for a showdown over paper receipts for the state's computerized voting systems. |
State should adopt paper-record reforms to safeguard vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Re the March 21 article State voting worries persist: In an effort to rid the system of hanging chads, butterfly ballots and smudged pencil marks, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which requires voters to be able to verify their ballots before they are cast and counted. |
State will pick vote machines for the county Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Deadlocked over a decision about new voting technology, Democrats and Republicans on the four-member Lucas County Board of Elections have submitted written statements on touch-screen and optical-scan equipment to Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell. |
New voter check-in to be tested during Bartow's election Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 31, 2004 BARTOW - Bartow voters will have the opportunity to sample new voting technology during the municipal election on Tuesday. The Florida Division of Elections has chosen Bartow to conduct a "pilot project" test of electronic, handheld precinct registers. The computers will be used as an adjunct to the paper poll registers normally used at polling locations. |
Flawed Vote Gets Its 'OK' Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Orange County's error-filled March 2 primary election was certified Tuesday by Registrar Steve Rodermund, even as the Board of Supervisors pledged to fix problems with the new electronic voting system for the November general election. |
Official's Travel Gift Questioned Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Riverside County Registrar of Voters Mischelle Townsend illegally accepted travel and lodging from the supplier of the county's electronic voting system, according to a complaint filed Tuesday with the state's Fair Political Practices Commission. |
Diebold machines elected in Summit Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Coming not-so-soon to a polling place near you: electronic voting machines courtesy of Green-based Diebold Inc. On Tuesday, the Summit County Board of Elections acting on a directive Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell handed down last week ratified Diebold as its machine of choice. |
Election board misses deadline for machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Hamilton County election leaders stopped short of picking a new voting system Tuesday, but they did offer some direction in case Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell makes good on his threat to pick one for them today. |
Blackwell likely to pick county's voting method Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell was expected to a voting machine system for Hamilton County possibly as early as today, despite concerns from the county's board of elections over the system's accuracy, security and cost. |
Budgets, mandates slow adoption of e-voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Most state and local governments have not bought electronic voting systems because they can’t afford to and because they fear buying a system that won’t meet future government mandates, but security concerns haven’t been a deterrent, election officials and e-voting advocates said today in Washington. |
ITAA goes on e-voting offensive Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 31, 2004 An information technology industry trade group is calling for the use of electronic voting technology after several months of defending its security against critics. |
Pentagon Drops Plan To Test Internet Voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 31, 2004 The Pentagon has decided to a $22 million pilot plan to test Internet voting for 100,000 American military personnel and civilians living overseas after lingering security concerns, officials said yesterday. |
SUPERVISORIAL ELECTION: The incumbent avoids a runoff, but a recount is being considered. Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 30, 2004 The Riverside County registrar's office on Monday certified the District 1 supervisorial election, paving the way for an expected recount by losing candidate Linda Soubirous. The certified results still show incumbent Bob Buster garnering the needed 50 percent plus one vote to avoid a November runoff against Soubirous. |
Sacramento County plans for touch-screen voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 30, 2004 Sacramento County elections officials are moving toward an historic change in the way voters here cast ballots: touch-screen voting machines. Elections officials aim to put out a request for proposals Thursday for a new voting system that will provide at least one touch-screen machine in more than 800 polling places for the Nov. 7 presidential election. |
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