An insider's view of vote vulnerability Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 10, 2004 By Avi Rubin, Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun I BECAME EMBROILED in the national debate about electronic voting security when I co-authored a report exposing serious security flaws in Diebold Inc.'s AccuVote-TS machines.
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Electronic voting: A trust issue Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 10, 2004 by Linda K. Harris in the Philadelphia Inquirer As the nation approaches its first presidential election since the controversial Florida count gave George W. Bush the White House, debate is heating up over the security and accuracy of electronic-voting machines.
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Bexar computer glitch delays counting of votes Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 10, 2004 Tom Bower in the San Antonio Express-News Tabulation computers for Bexar County's almost-new $8.5 million touch-screen voting system had to be re-programmed midway through Tuesday's count, momentarily throwing the local party primaries into disarray for the second time in two years.
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BREAKING NEWS: Republican primary results delayed until Thursday or Friday Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 10, 2004 by Toni Garrard Clay in the Athens (TX) Review Henderson County is looking more and more like Florida every election day. There are no hanging chads here, but there are thousands of Republican primary ballots that cannot be read correctly by the vote counting machines.
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Discovery of test votes leads to recount Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 10, 2004 by:David J. Mitchell, Daily Star Staff Writer PONCHATOULA - Test votes left in the Secretary of State's computer system blocked out the vote tallies of eight citywide precincts and changed winners in four races parishwide, Clerk of Court John Dahmer said this morning.
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Bay County election problems stir bad Florida memories Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 10, 2004 By BILL KACZOR of the Associated Press Ballot problems that initially gave last-place finisher Dick Gephardt a 2-1 lead in Bay County over the state's Democratic presidential primary winner John Kerry brought back memories of Florida's previous botched elections.
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Nevada elections chief presses for printed ballot receipts Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 10, 2004 By BRENDAN RILEY of the AP CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Some election officials and members of Congress who oppose paper-trail devices for electronic voting machines - so people have a record of how they voted - were criticized Wednesday by Nevada's top election official.
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Power problem hit 40 percent of polls in San Diego's first use of e-voting Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 10, 2004 MICHELLE MORGANTE for the AP SAN DIEGO - A computer battery problem affected about 40 percent of polling stations in San Diego County, delaying and frustrating voters who lined up to cast electronic ballots in last week's primary election, according to a county report issued Wednesday.
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Election Problems Stir Bad 2000 Memories Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 10, 2004 By BILL KACZOR for AP Florida elections workers were counting ballots by hand - again - on Wednesday after improperly coded ballots appeared to give former presidential candidate Rep. Dick Gephardt a decisive win in one Panhandle county.
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Lawmakers call for paper trail to secure electronic voting Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 10, 2004 BY TAMARA LYTLE for the Orlando Sentinel WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Up to 50 million Americans will use electronic ballots in November's presidential election - machines that an increasing number of people fear are vulnerable to tampering and errors because they lack back-up to ensure votes are properly counted.
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Editorial: Ballot botches need to be fixed Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 10, 2004 Walker County Messenger, March 10, 2004 Problems with election-day ballots are not unusual, but Walker County seems to have more than its share of voting confusion.
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Elections Board Asks City for an Extra $20 Million Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, March 9, 2004 By MIKE McINTIRE in the New York Times The New York City Board of Elections surprised City Council members yesterday with a request for almost $20 million it says it needs to cope with federal voting changes.
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Martin County democratic executive committee wants paper backups of votes sought Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, March 9, 2004 By Jim Turner staff writer for Scripps Newspapers The Martin County Democratic Executive Committee has asked the county and state to include a device into every voting machine to create a hardcopy backup of individual votes.
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Nevada voting machine contract approved Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, March 9, 2004 Associated Press CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - A contract to buy more than 4,500 electronic voting machines and move Nevada voters into the computer age was approved Tuesday by the state Board of Examiners.
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Town balks at electronic voting Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, March 9, 2004 By Gary Alexander , Correspondent Daily Freeman SHOKAN - The Olive Town Board, citing voter concern about the reliability of electronic voting systems recommended by the Help America Vote Act of 2003, has resolved to resist the introduction of the new machines in the town's hamlets.
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7,000 Orange County Voters Were Given Bad Ballots Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, March 9, 2004 By Ray F. Herndon and Stuart Pfeifer, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers Poll workers struggling with a new electronic voting system in last week's election gave thousands of Orange County voters the wrong ballots, according to a Times analysis of election records. In 21 precincts where the problem was most acute, there were more ballots cast than registered voters.
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Wexler files lawsuit demanding printers for new voting machines Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, March 9, 2004 By Kathy Bushouse for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler took his crusade for voting machine printers back to court Monday, filing a federal lawsuit in West Palm Beach that claims having no way to manually recount votes from touch-screen machines is a violation of federal law.
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After complaints, Montco to retest voting machines Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, March 9, 2004 By Jeff Shields in the Philadelphia Inquirer Montgomery County will retest its electronic voting machines at the insistence of a group of former candidates who have questioned whether the machines worked properly in November.
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International monitors will watch election Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, March 9, 2004 By Nancy Cook Lauer of the Tallahassee Democrat They've monitored voting in Haiti; now they're on their way to El Salvador. Their next stops? Jacksonville, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami.
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Disabled sue over voting machines Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, March 9, 2004 By Cameron Jahn Bee Staff Writer Claiming that 250,000 people with disabilities were disenfranchised in last week's election, advocates for the disabled filed suit in Los Angeles federal court Monday to force four of the state's largest counties to install voting machines that all voters can use independently by the November presidential election.
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