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January 29, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Net has too many holes to cast ballots by PC Mike Himowitz for SunSpot.net THE INTERNET is a splendid medium for influencing public opinion, mobilizing political workers or raising money for candidates, as Howard Dean proved early in his presidential campaign (at least before the Great Yowl). But the Internet is a rotten medium for voting. |
January 29, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| E-Vote Still Flawed, Experts Say By Kim Zetter for WiredNews Computer security experts hired to hack electronic voting machines manufactured by Diebold Election Systems found that flaws in the machines could result in malicious insiders or outsiders stealing an election. |
January 29, 2004 Story Here |
| Diebold's record year hurt by vote machines
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January 29, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Princeton professors examine electronic voting By Alexander Maugeri of The Daily Princetonian (Princeton U.) 01/29/20 (U-WIRE) PRINCETON, N.J. A little over half of Americans vote for president, less than a third for members of Congress. Most say it's because their vote doesn't matter. But what if votes didn't matter. What if votes were being systematically eradicated and discounted? |
January 29, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Voting machine debacle inexcusable By State Sen. Ken Cuccinelli, (R-37th) 01/29/2004 As we near the Feb. 10 Democratic presidential primary in Virginia, it seems an appropriate time for me to voters in Fairfax County on my experiences investigating the problems with the new voting machines that were used for the first time in the November 2003 general election. |
January 28, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Paper ballot receipt drive takes two steps forward Wexler lawsuit to get a speedy hearing; by Dale M. King of the Boca Raton News The drive to provide Florida voters with a paper receipt after they cast their ballots on Election Day is gaining momentum. A Palm Beach County circuit court judge has paved the way for a quick hearing on U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler’s lawsuit against Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood and Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore. In addition, county commissioners from Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach County have voted unanimously to ask the state legislature to mandate a paper record of votes cast on electronic voting machines. |
January 28, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Bill calls for paper record of all votes By TOM BELL, Portland Press Herald Writer AUGUSTA — Touch-screen voting machines will be in every Maine precinct in two years, and people who worry about the potential for fraud are pushing for a law to ban machines that don't keep a voter-verified paper trail. |
January 28, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| N.H. Among Few Using Paper in Vote Records RACHEL KONRAD Associated Press The technology troubles that could bedevil elections this year in California, Georgia, Florida and elsewhere were absent in New Hampshire this week. That's because it is among the few states that require a paper record for every ballot cast. |
January 27, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Florida still lacks uniform voting system An Op-Ed by By Pamela Hasterok: It is that time again. Chaos! Confusion! Mayhem! Yes, it's a presidential election year in Florida. |
January 27, 2004 Story Here |
| Paper-trail hearing set for Feb. 6 By George Bennett, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH A Palm Beach County circuit judge agreed Monday to speed up consideration of a lawsuit that challenges the paperless voting machines used by 15 Florida counties. |
January 27, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| 3 most-populous counties push for ballot paper trail By Connie Piloto, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH Florida's three most populous counties took a rare, unified stance Monday, calling for the state legislature to require a ballot-by-ballot paper record of votes cast on electronic voting machines. |
January 27, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Florida still lacks uniform voting system An Op-Ed by By Pamela Hasterok: It is that time again. Chaos! Confusion! Mayhem! Yes, it's a presidential election year in Florida. |
January 25, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Florida still lacks uniform voting system By Pamela Hasterok, Vantage Point, for the Daytona Beach News-Journal It is that time again. Chaos! Confusion! Mayhem! Yes, it's a presidential election year in Florida. Considering the ordeal of 2000, voters could be forgiven if they never entered a polling place again, after being blamed and humiliated for the 36-day deadlock the nation endured before the U.S. Supreme Court chose George W. Bush as president. The state blamed voters, too, trying to pass off its inept and often unconscionable handling of ballots as the fault of those casting the vote. |
January 24, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Electronic voting a big flop; the betrayal of American voters An OP-ED from ABC-CBN News: The morning after the 2000 election, Americans woke up to a disturbing realization: the United States’ electoral system was too flawed to say with certainty who had won. Three years later, things may actually be worse. |
January 24, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| New voting machines not certified Wayne Co.: Equipment has not been approved by the state of Indiana By Rebecca Helmes, Staff writer for the Palladium-Item of Richmond, IN. Election Systems & Software is working fast to Wayne County's touchscreen voting machines after the Indiana Election Commission found the company's products in at least three counties were not certified with the state. |
January 24, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Capital goes low-tech on voting: It will be a pencil-and-paper primary in March By Cameron Jahn Sacramento Bee Staff Writer Sacramento County is taking the slow road to voting reform, using a paper-and-pencil system for the March 2 primary to replace the discredited punch-card machines that were at the center of the voting fiasco in the 2000 presidential election in Florida. County elections officials are in no hurry, given the questions, hurdles and controversy surrounding the ultimate goal of having electronic touch-screen voting machines in all precincts statewide by 2005. |
January 23, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Democracy at Risk By PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times OP-ED Columnist The disputed election of 2000 left a lasting scar on the nation's psyche. A recent Zogby poll found that even in red states, which voted for George W. Bush, 32 percent of the public believes that the election was stolen. In blue states, the fraction is 44 percent. |
The Perils of Online Voting Story Here Archive |
Internet voting has been viewed as a possible cure for some of the ills that afflict the mechanics of American democracy. Recently, the technology has seemed to move ahead of any serious consideration of whether it is actually a good idea to allow home computer owners to choose a president in the same way they order bath towels online or send e-mail to their relatives. But now there are grave questions about whether even the technology makes sense. |
January 23, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Doubts about technology and a lack of funds seen slowing voting upgrades By Robert Tanner, Associated Press, in the Boston Globe: Political wrangling and doubts about new technology have slowed efforts to improve the nation's election system, leaving many states open to the same problems that caused the 2000 presidential stalemate, a new report found. |
January 22, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Voting Blind: E-voting ignites local, state and national controversy By Tara Treasurefield, a freelance writer and activist "The League National Board has taken a position against a paper trail for electronic voting machines. They're wrong, of course," says Tony Miller, one of many men who belong to the League of Women Voters. Though he is smiling, he isn't joking. |
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