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Voting machine security questioned Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 23, 2004 HAYWARD Buy a book on Amazon.com, and you get an e-mailed receipt confirming your order. But vote electronically on one of Alameda County's voting machines and you get nothing except an "I voted" sticker. |
Mexico residents to see changes in voting system Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 23, 2004 Audrain County, along with many other counties, is in the process of making changes to its voting systems and precincts to cooperate with an election reform bill signed two years ago by President Bush called the Help America Vote Act of 2002. |
Ballot Boxes Go High Tech Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 22, 2004 From touch screens to digital 'frogs,' technology to make voting more secure is tricky, but it's coming |
Voter advocates make a case for a paper trail Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 22, 2004 Supporters of a paper trail for electronic voting machines ran full-page advertisements on Thursday in newspapers in Maryland and Florida, calling for a tangible record of each ballot cast in the November election. |
Federal Court To Hear Lawsuit On Voting Machine Paper Trail Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 22, 2004 MIRAMAR, Fla. A congressman's federal lawsuit against the state's elections supervisors demanding a paper record from electronic voting machines will get an expedited hearing. |
Hayward City Council Election Decided (was "Henson, Quirk win final two seats") Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 22, 2004 HAYWARD Election officials finished tallying the last batch of ballots from the March 2 Hayward City Council election late Friday, and at last the race is called. |
County hires election help Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 22, 2004 A project manager fired from Election Systems & Software is being hired by the county as a consultant for May’s primary election. |
Election 2004: Touch-screen voting faces criticism Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 22, 2004 Close to a third of voters who cast ballots in the November election will do it by touching a screen or pressing buttons that will electronically record their choices. |
Computer voting reignites fears Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 22, 2004 Scott Vanderveer walked out of his Pinellas Park voting precinct on March 9 with a thought running through the back of his mind: Did the computer get his vote right? |
Changing how we vote: Officials are hesitant to buy the required new polling machines. Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 22, 2004 Like a grandfather clock or a grand piano, a device can be low-tech, yet elegant and functional. So it is with the old, lever-activated voting machines that York County currently relies on. They’re bulky, yet reassuring in their very solidity. Cast your ballot and hear a metallic “thunk,” like the mechanisms of democracy kicking into gear. |
E-voting is inevitable, despite flaws Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 22, 2004 Imagine if your grocery store told you it wasn't giving out receipts any more because everything is scanned and the computer is never wrong. |
Voting with new machines 'went wonderfully,' official says Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 21, 2004 CARMI, Ill. - Voters in White County used an optical scan voting system for the first time in Tuesday's primary election, leaving behind the old punch card system. |
Voting machines prove new not always better Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 21, 2004 The problems with electronic voting machines don't seem ready to subside, even though a district judge has upheld an election that was challenged based on their use. |
Test awaits computer voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 21, 2004 If Henry Cuellar calls for a Bexar County recount of his razor-slim Democratic primary loss to U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, it will be the first such test locally of electronic voting technology at the center of some troubled elections around the country. |
Multi-Precinct Polls Blamed for Mix-Up Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 21, 2004 Orange County poll workers say breakdowns in training on new electronic voting machines contributed to thousands of voters receiving the wrong ballots March 2. |
New voting machines touch off official debate Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 21, 2004 DAYTON — Debate is growing over the security of the electronic voting systems that are poised to flood into polling places throughout the state and country. |
Florida remains vulnerable to Election Day problems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 21, 2004 MIAMI - (KRT) - During this month's Democratic presidential primary in Florida, an elections staffer in Polk County mistakenly gave five voters extra ballots - giving them the chance to vote twice. |
County mulls voting systems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, March 21, 2004 It all sounds so simple, so clean. Just walk up to the voting booth, touch your finger on the name you want, or highlight it and it all goes through — no fuss, no muss. |
Election fix stymied by delays, computer doubts, confidence gap Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, March 20, 2004 Problems with the election system in Florida left the winner of the 2000 presidential race in doubt for more than a month, and prompted widespread calls to reform the way the nation elects its leaders. Yet nearly four years since George W. Bush won in Florida by 537 votes, reform has been spotty. This story is part of the AP's ongoing coverage of electoral problems across the country. |
Vote safety plan told Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, March 20, 2004 SACRAMENTO - Touch-screen voters should be able to view, but not touch, paper versions of their electronic ballots, Secretary of State Kevin Shelley said in a draft proposal of election standards released Friday. |
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