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February 11, 2004 Story Here Archive |
Election law will change when voters head to the polls next year A new election law to go into effect next year will change how Michigan voters cast ballots. Oceana County Clerk Becky Griffin expects the law to create additional work for her office and township clerks because county clerks now assume responsibilities for all elections. |
February 11, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Congressman's suit seeking voting machine paper trail dismissed Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A congressman's lawsuit seeking to require electronic voting machines to produce a paper trail was dismissed Wednesday when a Palm Beach County judge ruled he did not have the standing to sue. |
Four years after a now-defunct local company ran the first online Democratic primary, the state of Internet voting is at a tenuous crossroads. |
February 11, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| This Time, Fairfax's Touch-Screen Machines Meet Challenge By David Cho Washington Post Staff Writer Fairfax County's new touch-screen voting machines behaved well throughout the day for yesterday's Democratic presidential primary, and most precincts succeeded in quickly transmitting vote tallies electronically once the polls closed last night. |
February 11, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| County to choose voting system Three companies ed as eligible vendors By LACHELLE SEYMOUR of the Newark, OH Advocate NEWARK On Monday, Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell's office announced that Ohio counties may upgrade to electronic voting systems with three companies. Licking County's first choice, Sequoia Voting Systems, of Oakland, Calif., was not one of them. |
February 11, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Md. Lawmakers Look at Plugging Touch-Screen Security With Paper Ballots By STEPHANIE TRACY of the Capital News Service ANNAPOLIS, Md. - With only three weeks remaining until voters statewide get their first feel of new touch-screen voting machines, lawmakers are still working to plug the system's security holes, including adding voter-verifiable paper records. |
February 11, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Speakers dissect e-voting concerns By Albert Chiou of the Stanford Daily “The votes of we, the people, are now the secrets of corporations,” said Faye Anderson, a Stanford Law School graduate and the writer and producer of “Counting on Democracy,” a nationally televised documentary about the 2000 Florida presidential election. Anderson was one of five speakers who examined the problems of electronic voting machines in a panel discussion hosted last night by the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. |
February 11, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Optical scan machines perform perfectly By Walter Mares, news editor for the Eastern Arizona Courier Yvonne Pearson and company passed with flying colors. Greenlee County's first election involving use of a new system came off without a hitch. |
February 10, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Representative Rush Holt on Paper Voting Trails and Restoring Voter Confidence A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW After the debacle of the 2000 election in Florida over hanging chads, a search began for a technological solution to voting problems and irregularities that would ensure that votes cast would actually be counted. The answer to some came in the form of touch screen voting technology. But what began as a technological fix to voting irregularities, may open pandora's box and potentially undermine the voting process and democracy itself. Now many Americans worry that computerized voting will allow the erasure and theft of elections all with the click of a button. |
February 10, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Voting machine choice recalled By DIANE ERWIN of the Springfield OH News-Sun Clark and Champaign counties' Boards of Elections must choose new electronic voting machines after the company they ed withdrew from contract negotiations with the secretary of state's office. |
February 10, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| From WALB News 10 in Georgia Albany A glitch at one of the city's largest precincts throws the elections back into court Tuesday afternoon. Polls normally close at seven p.m., but because of voting problems, the Westtown precinct will remain open an extra two hours. That's because 75 voters had trouble casting ballots at Westtown this morning. |
February 10, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Paper trail still needed for elections: New technology for voting unproven Opinion from the Florida News-Press The new touch-screen voting machines used in Lee and 15 other counties appear to be working well, but given our tumultuous recent election history, it would be a good idea to have a paper trail on hand in case a re-count is needed. |
February 10, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Voting machine showdown A leading maker of computer election equipment defends itself in court against charges that it overreached itself in trying to stifle critics. By Farhad Manjoo for Salon.com SAN JOSE, Calif. Diebold, one of the nation's leading manufacturers of computerized voting machines, faced off against some of its critics on Monday in U.S. District Court. But this time, the question at issue wasn't whether the machines could be hacked, but whether Diebold was abusing the principles of free speech in an attempt to quash the critics. |
February 10, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Bill would mandate election paper trail Legislation stems from security concerns related to new electronic voting machines; Proponents cite need for 'backup' record; Critics say altering system sends wrong message By Stephanie Desmon and Bill McCauley of the Baltimore Sun Staff |
February 10, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| How New Hampshire Primary Election Was Rigged by LYNN LANDES It's been all downhill for Howard Dean since he lost the New Hampshire primary by a significant margin. But, now questions are being raised about the security of New Hampshire's voting system in the wake of a recent analysis of the election results. It could add up to nothing, but it does underscore how easily technology can be used to sabotage the voting process. |
February 10, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Voting via computer not ideal, engineer says By Amy L. Ashbridge Staff Writer for the NY Daily Star ONEONTA — Voters shouldn't trust their votes to machines without a paper record, a software designer said Monday night. |
February 10, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Touch-screen voting puts state out front But technology is imperfect, experts report By Danny Jacobs, Capital News Service, The Jeffersonian Maryland's decision to use touch-screen voting machines in its March 2 primary has moved it to the forefront of nationwide election reform, according to a report released last month. |
February 09, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 9, 2004 Will the election be hacked? By Farhad Manjoo of Salon.com A few weeks after Election Night 2002, Roxanne Jekot, a computer programmer who lives in Cumming, Ga., began fearing demons lingering in the state's voting machines. The midterm election had been a historic one: Georgia became the first state to use electronic touch-screen voting machines in every one of its precincts. The 51-year-old Jekot, who has a grandmotherly bearing but describes herself as a "typical computer geek," was initially excited about the new system. |
February 09, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 9, 2004 Can the 2004 Elections Be Taint Free? By Ekram Haque for the Muslim American Society As George Bush and the Republican Party go into full gear in hopes of clinching a landslide victory in 2004, many Americans will be looking for a comprehensive solution to the 2000 Florida voting fiasco. Three years and millions of dollars later, doubts remain if all states will have the necessary legislation and systems in place in time. Despite an extensive investigation of Florida election irregularities by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the passage of the federal landmark Help America Vote Act (HAVA), states have not implemented all of the mandated corrective actions, the high-tech voting machines being offered have security flaws, and their vendors are allegedly quite close to the Republican Party. |
February 09, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 9, 2004 Three companies sign contracts to sell machines Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio - Three makers of electronic voting machines have signed contracts with the state to replace punch-card and lever voting devices that must be scrapped under a new law requiring d equipment. |
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