Voting machine 'security' issue raised    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, March 30, 2004 By JOHN MARTIN Evansville Courier & Press staff Only a "small circle" of individuals should know a security password on the county's new computerized voting machines, Election Board member Don Vowels said.

County pondering election questions    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, March 30, 2004 By JOHN MARTIN for the Evansville Courier & Press With only 36 days before Vanderburgh County's new touch-screen voting equipment is to be plugged in for the May 4 primary election, county officials are still dealing with some weighty issues.

Ballot Error Effect Cited    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, March 30, 2004 By Jean O. Pasco, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Although some Orange County voters cast the wrong electronic ballots in the March 2 primary, potentially altering the outcome of one race for a Democratic Party post, Registrar Steve Rodermund said he will certify the results of the election today.

County Seeks to Mend Electronic Voting Problems    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, March 30, 2004 By MEGAN REITER Contributing Writer for the Daily Californian Amid concerns that widespread technical problems tainted voting results in Alameda County’s elections earlier this month, county officials met with representatives from Diebold Election Systems last week, seeking answers for their machines’ malfunctions.

New digitial voting machines to get preview    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, March 30, 2004 By: David Campbell , Staff Writer for the Princeton Packet Mercer County's new digital voting machines, which replace the cumbersome lever-style machines used by municipalities in elections since the 1950s, will be on display at Princeton Township Hall on Wednesday and Thursday.    "It's been a long time coming," said Township Clerk Linda McDermott. "It's nice to see it's finally come to fruition."    The county budgeted about $4.2 million to buy 600 state-of-the-art voting machines.

New voting machines mandated    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, March 30, 2004 by Brad Buck of The Palatka Daily News Putnam County may have to spend as much as $300,000 for touch-screen voting machines for either this fall's elections or the 2006 elections, Elections Supervisor Don Hersey said Monday. That possibility grew out of a tentative federal court ruling in Duval County in January.

New systems offer solution to punch cards    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, March 30, 2004 By Patrick Waldron Daily Herald Staff Writer By the next mid-term election in November 2006, the federal government wants to eliminate punch-card ballots. Kane County Clerk John Cunningham thinks he's found a system to make that work in this county's 220 precincts and at the cheapest price.

Bay Area Programmers Develop Touchscreen Alternative    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, March 30, 2004 By JAKOB SCHILLER in the Berkeley Daily Planet As touchscreen voting machines continue to draw heat from critics pointing to allegations of security vulnerabilities, one group of computer science experts proposes to have the solution.

WILLIAMSON COUNTY SWITCHING TO VOTING MACHINES    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, March 30, 2004 BY JOHN D. HOMAN for the Southern Illinoisan MARION Williamson County Clerk Saundra Jent is opting for Opti-Scan. After nearly a quarter century of punch ballot voting, Jent said county voters can expect a change this fall for the general election.

How E-Voting Threatens Democracy    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, March 29, 2004 by Kim Zetter for WiredNews In January 2003, voting activist Bev Harris was holed up in the basement of her three-story house in Renton, Washington, searching the Internet for an electronic voting machine manual, when she made a startling discovery.

Coshocton keeps paper election ballots despite state dispute    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, March 29, 2004 By ANDREW HIRSCH in the Coshocton Tribune COSHOCTON Despite growing pressure on other counties to choose from new electronic voting systems, Coshocton County will retain its machine-counted paper-and-pencil ballots for now. But that may change due to a federal election law designed to address the problems of punch-card voting publicized during the disputed 2000 presidential election results in Florida. Coshocton County doesn't use such a card-oriented system, preferring instead the old-fashioned paper-and-pencil ballots that are counted by optical scanning machines and can be recounted manually.

Verified Voting Foundation Hires Executive Director - Founder Of Free Speech ISP That Sued Diebold Voting Company    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, March 29, 2004 Press Release from Verified Voting SAN FRANCISCO, March 29 /PRNewswire/ The Verified Voting Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on reliable and secure election systems, today named Will Doherty as its Executive Director.

Duval County ordered to make voting accessible to all voters    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, March 29, 2004 Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A federal judge has told Duval County to make provisions for visually or physically impaired voters by adding about 60 special voting machines in time for the August 2004 primary.

Wexler: Avoid vote chaos    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, March 29, 2004 By Kathy Bushouse in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler's legal pursuit of printers for touch-screen voting machines could have a profound effect on the November general election if a federal judge agrees with the congressman's assertion that not having the printers violates parts of the U.S. Constitution.

Senate ponders voting receipts    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, March 29, 2004 By Johnathon E. Briggs for the Baltimore Sun As the Senate considers passage tonight of legislation that would require the state's new electronic voting machines to produce paper records of cast ballots, bill opponents warn that a paper trail could jeopardize the validity of future elections and violate the secrecy of ballots cast by blind voters.

Despite controversy, criticism, electronic voting is a success    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, March 29, 2004 By JAY GOETTING for the Napa Valley Register The trials and tribulations of Napa County's elections office have overshadowed the apparent success of the county's first all-electronic balloting at the 122 polling places.

Voting for Better Voting    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, March 28, 2004 Editorial in the Washington Post MARYLAND LEGISLATORS are moving to address a serious defect in the touch-screen voting machines that the state has been introducing over the last several elections. The problem, pointed out by experts studying the system, is that glitches in the machines' programming could be difficult to detect. Because votes are recorded electronically, some could be lost or perhaps credited to the wrong candidates.

Official: Voting will leave paper trail    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, March 28, 2004 by Michael Wright for The Fact Amid growing concerns that electronic voting is fundamentally flawed, Brazoria County commissioners promise to take a hard look at the new systems before they buy one.

What will Florida do for an encore?    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, March 28, 2004 by Gene Collier Columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Something like 100 million Americans will attempt to participate in a presidential election again Nov. 2, roughly a quarter of them voting electronically on touch-screen systems that have the potential to make the great electoral fiasco of 2000 look like a scrupulously efficient night of church bingo.

Carlos Guerra: Congressional recount? Hope there are no criminal minds    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, March 28, 2004 by Carlos Guerra for MYSA.com and the San Antonio Express-News It has been years since a major local political race ended as closely as Henry Cuellar's challenge to U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, which the incumbent won by 145 votes.

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