Daily Voting News October 03, 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 October 02, 2006 Story Here |
John Gideon A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues
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FIRM FINDS ROOT OF VOTE GLITCHES (MD) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Melissa Harris 27 Sept. 2006 Diebold Election Systems Inc. said yesterday that a subcontractor has found the source of two additional design flaws that sporadically caused the state's electronic voter check-in computers to stop talking to each other and not program ballots during the Sept. 12 primary.
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Diebold says patch will fix poll books Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, September 25, 2006 Asociated Press 25 Sept. 2006 SEP. 25 5:47 P.M. ET The maker of the electronic poll books used to check in voters at the polls said it has fixed the problem that plagued the equipment on Maryland's primary election day.
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Clerk: Voting Machines Not Accessible (AR) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, September 19, 2006 Mary L. Crider TIMES RECORD County Clerk Doris Tate told the Sebastian County Election Commission she will refer a handicap accessibility problem with the new voting machines to Secretary of State Charlie Daniels. The new electronic iVotronics voting machines supplied by Election Systems and Software are not user-friendly for the visually or hearing impaired, she said.
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New voting system off to bumpy start Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, August 9, 2006 By George Merritt, Denver Post Staff Writer 09 August 2006 Denver's new system of voting got off to a bumpy start today as poll workers fumbled with new electronic machines and computer system logjams.
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District 16 recount sought; 432 lost votes cited in suit Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, June 24, 2006 DANIEL NASAW, Northwest Arkansas News Source A state Senate candidate who lost a Democratic primary election in which an equipment malfunction left more than 400 votes uncounted has filed a lawsuit requesting a recount.
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Polk County recorder to contest election (IA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, June 24, 2006 BERT DALMER, The Des Moines Register Polk County Recorder Tim Brien, a five-term incumbent who was soundly defeated by a political newcomer in June's primary elections, plans to challenge the election results based on the failure of similar voting machines in another Iowa county.
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Recount In AR Race Reverses Result (AR) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, June 20, 2006 Eyewitness News A recount in the June 13th runoff for the Democratic nomination for a state Senate seat in eastern Arkansas has produced a new winner.
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Ballot printer provides insight Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, June 19, 2006 Warren Watkins The Daily Citizen (Arkansas)
While debates and discussions about the state-wide debacle of this year?s elections continue, not many White County residents realize a small print shop in southern White County has printed millions of ballots for Arkansas elections since 1988. Jim Pinner, owner and manager of Jim Harris and Associates, has valuable insight into the election process. He produces printed items of all types from a non-descript building without a sign on Hwy. 267 south of Searcy, and while he prints no ballots for White County, a significant number of the larger counties in Arkansas turn to Pinner for their paper ballots.
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Ballot printer provides insight Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, June 19, 2006 Warren Watkins The Daily Citizen (Arkansas)
While debates and discussions about the state-wide debacle of this year?s elections continue, not many White County residents realize a small print shop in southern White County has printed millions of ballots for Arkansas elections since 1988. Jim Pinner, owner and manager of Jim Harris and Associates, has valuable insight into the election process. He produces printed items of all types from a non-descript building without a sign on Hwy. 267 south of Searcy, and while he prints no ballots for White County, a significant number of the larger counties in Arkansas turn to Pinner for their paper ballots.
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Runoff set in Marion County (AR) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 14, 2006 The Baxter Bulletin, ARMANDO RIOS, June 14, 2006 YELLVILLE — Marion County Judge Charles Trammell appeared to be going into a Democratic primary runoff with Kenneth Oxford June 13 in a race Tuesday that included minor glitches.
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Voters to decide candidates in runoff. (AR) Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, June 12, 2006 By Jeff Hunter, The Daily Citizen White County voters will finalize the ballot for November's general election today by choosing among state and local candidates in the Democratic primary runoff.
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Election snafu under investigation (CA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, June 8, 2006 BY JAMES BURGER, Bakersfield.com Two senior members of California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson's staff arrived at the Kern County elections division Thursday with a list of hard questions about this week's problem-plagued local election.
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Hand count prompts differing opinions from candidates (IA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, June 8, 2006 TIM ROHWER, The Daily Nonpareil Online It was back to the old-fashioned way of doing things at the Pottawattamie County Courthouse Wednesday.
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Knauss, Leaders, Williams win in GOP supervisors primary (IA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, June 8, 2006 TIM ROHWER, The Daily Nonpareil Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors Chairman Loren Knauss and fellow incumbent Lynn Leaders were the two top Republican Party winners in Tuesday's primary election for the board.
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Glitch, absentee votes slow results Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, June 8, 2006 SONJA LEE, Great Falls Tribune With a boost in absentee votes, more Cascade County residents cast ballots in Tuesday's primary election than in previous ones, making results a bit tougher to tally, according to election officials.
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Faulty voting machines delay results; counting under way (IA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 7, 2006 Tim Rohwer, The Daily Nonpareil Online The counting in Tuesday's Pottawattamie County primary election came to a sudden halt shortly after midnight today when Pottawattamie County Auditor Marilyn Jo Drake announced to the waiting courthouse crowd that something wasn't right with the new computers purchased to count the ballots.
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Ghosts in the machines plague local polling places (CA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 7, 2006 BY RUTH JUSTIS, The Daily Independent Many Ridgecrest residents who set out to cast their ballots in the Primary Election were stymied by software problems. Some of the encoded cards, which enter the voter's personal information in the voting machine, were left over from a previous election and would not work in the electronic voting machines.
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Most voting goes smoothly; A few glitches in primary, not serious Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 7, 2006 Sun Herald; By SHELIA BYRD, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS YAZOO CITY - Marsha Williams was a little nervous about the idea of using new touch-screen voting machines Tuesday, but she said the computerized equipment is an improvement over outdated lever machines.
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