'Daily Voting News' For October 22, 2006 Story Here |
John Gideon A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues
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Absentee ballots corrected (OH) Story Here Archive |
Lisa A. Abraham Akron Beacon Journal 21 October 2006 Newly printed absentee ballots are expected to arrive at the Summit County Board of Elections this morning, after a printing error caused a number of mistakes on the second page of the ballot. "We should be mailing them by Monday if we get them (Saturday),' said Marijean Donofrio, deputy director of the board.
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Computer Voting Disks Likely Made For Testers (MD) Story Here Archive |
Cameron W. Barr Washington Post 21 October 2006 A Maryland election official said yesterday that possibly stolen computer disks believed to be electronic voting software were "apparently produced" for use by a testing firm hired by the Maryland legislature in November 2003. Ross Goldstein, deputy administrator of the Maryland State Board of Elections, said documents indicate that the disks were sent to Maryland so Raba Technologies Inc. could assess the security of the state's electronic voting system, which is provided by Diebold Election Systems. A receptionist at Raba, based in Columbia, declined to comment yesterday after consulting with her supervisor.
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Ballot Blunders Abound As Election Nears Story Here Archive |
Eric Kelderman Stateline.org 21 October 2006 While everyone is worried about high-tech glitches fouling the vote counts this Election Day, some of the biggest fumbles on the way to the ballot box are turning out to be of the man-made variety.
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'Daily Voting News' For October 21, 2006 Story Here |
John Gideon A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues
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'Daily Voting News' For October 20, 2006 Story Here |
John Gideon A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues
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No Ballots Spell Election Concerns In Benton County (AR) Story Here Archive |
The HomeTown Channel Associated Press 20 October 2006 BENTONVILLE, Ark. Election officials in Benton County said voting troubles
are already upon them, although Election Day is many days away. The county
didn't receive any of the 80,000 ballots it ordered for the Nov. 7 election in
time to mail them to absentee voters, and many people have been calling to
complain.
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Voting equipment to be fixed after two failures (Randolph Co. Indiana) Story Here Archive |
Tricia Braun NewsLink Indiana 20 October 2006 WINCHESTER, Ind. (NLI) - In the spring primary and during a test this week, Randolph County's new voting machines did not tabulate votes correctly.
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Officials Probe Possible Theft of Voting Software in Md. Story Here Archive |
Cameron W. Barr 20 October 2006 The FBI is investigating the possible theft of software developed by the nation's leading maker of electronic voting equipment, said a former Maryland legislator who this week received three computer disks that apparently contain key portions of programs created by Diebold Election Systems.
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Summit absentee ballots delayed (OH) Story Here Archive |
Lisa A. Abraham Akron Beacon Journal 20 October 2006 The 22,000 Summit County residents who are waiting for their absentee ballots to arrive in the mail will be waiting a while longer. When the ballots arrived at the Summit County Board of Elections on Thursday, staff members discovered the second page was fraught with typographical errors. Words are running together and their letters are spaced incorrectly, making the ballot hard to read, said board Deputy Director Marijean Donofrio.
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Former delegate gets purported Diebold code (MD) Story Here Archive |
Melissa Harris Baltimore Sun 20 October 2006 Diebold Election Systems Inc. expressed alarm and state election officials contacted the FBI yesterday after a former legislator received an anonymous package containing what appears to be the computer code that ran Maryland's polls in 2004.
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Voting officials concerned by missing absentee ballots (MD) Story Here Archive |
Megha Rajagopalan Capital News Service 20 October 2006 As the state's leading politicians urge voters to request absentee ballots instead of going to the polls, local elections officials are contending with a predictable flood of requests for absentee ballots.
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New Laws and Machines May Spell Voting Woes Story Here Archive |
By IAN URBINA New York Times 19 October 2006 WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 — New electronic voting machines have arrived in Yolo County, Calif., but there is one hitch: the audio program for the visually impaired in some of them works only in Vietnamese. “Talk about panic,” said Freddy Oakley, the county’s top election official. “I’ve got gray-haired ladies as poll workers standing around looking stunned.”
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'Daily Voting News' For October 19, 2006 Story Here |
John Gideon A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues
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Calif. GOP wants own candidate to withdraw Story Here Archive |
MSNBC Oct 19, 2006 GARDEN GROVE, Calif. - Orange County Republican leaders on Thursday called for the withdrawal of a GOP congressional candidate they believe sent a letter threatening Hispanic immigrant voters with arrest.
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Yolo finds glitch in e-voting (CA) Story Here Archive |
Ryan Lillis Sacramento Bee October 19, 2006 Yolo County election officials are skeptical that many vision-impaired voters
will use the county's 150 electronic voting machines in next month's election.
They're even more skeptical that many of those same voters will need to hear
instructions in Vietnamese.
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Problems on first day of early voting in Shelby County (TN) Story Here Archive |
WREG-TV Memphis Tennessee 19 October 2006 Go figure. Two different women early vote on the same day. Neither of them lives in Germantown, yet both get a chance to vote in the Germantown municipal elections. In a system that, according to election officials lives and dies based on the honesty of the voter, both women were honest in their own way: One simply ignored the ballot while the other let poll workers know about the problem. And that's when her trouble began.
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PEBs expected this week; early voting begins Monday (AR) Story Here Archive |
Alan Smith, Forrest City Times Herald 19 October 2006 The St. Francis County Election Commission learned Wednesday night that
Personal Electronic Ballots (PEBs) for early voting in the general election
could be in by the end of this week. Early voting is scheduled to begin Monday.
Election Coordinator Judy Armstrong told the commission that after speaking with
officials at Election Systems & Software, the PEBs should be in this
week.
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The Watchdog Gets Answers About Shelby Election Glitches (TN) Story Here Archive |
WREG-TV Memphis Tennessee 19 October 2006 It's not what Shelby County Elections officials wanted to see. A story about two people voting on the very first day of early voting who run into problems. Big problems. They were both given computer cards to plug into Diebold Election machines. The cards are supposed to provide the correct ballots for each voters address. In this case...both voters got Germantown Municipal election ballots...even though neither one of them lives in Germantown. What we have here is the textbook definition of a problem.
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'Daily Voting News' For October 18, 2006 Story Here |
John Gideon A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues
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