Voting machines removed in Grafton (Grafton Co., NH) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, March 16, 2006 CAROL ROBIDOUX Union Leader 16 March 2006
Grafton ? No matter how you do the math, 193 ?yeas? plus 198 ?nays? don?t add up to 369 votes. That faulty equation ? results of a warrant article vote from Tuesday?s election ballot ? was the first clue for Grafton town officials that something was wrong.
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Election uproar; County officials say there were plenty of red flags Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, March 16, 2006 JULIE DAFFERN, LAREDO MORNING TIMES 14 March 2006 A representative of Election Systems and Software was blasted Monday at Webb County Commissioners Court for errors in programming and inadequately training county staff. The county paid almost $900,000 in federal grant money for the electronic machines, and officials fear that problems in the March 7 election could lead to more voter apathy and distrust.
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Voting system's troubles spread (NC) Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, March 16, 2006 Lisa A. Abraham Akron Beacon Journal 16 March 2006 A North Carolina election official says 1,000 memory cards delivered to that state from Election Systems & Software had problems similar to those seen in Summit County.
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Despite glitch with electronic voting machines, all is well in Wilton Manors Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 15, 2006 Robert Nolin South Florida Sun-Sentinel 15 March 2006 Voters in Wilton Manors thought they were getting a little extra bang for their ballot Tuesday and experiencing an unpleasant d?j? vu of election meltdowns past.
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Voting machine talks break down Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 15, 2006 Tom Long The Citizen's Voice 14 March 2006 Jilted by the company it chose to upgrade its voting machines, Luzerne County now finds itself in a $3 million bind.
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County to decide on voting machines Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 15, 2006 Hal Marcovitz The Morning Call 15 March 2006 Bucks County commissioners are expected today to approve the purchase of new voting machines but they are doing so at the risk of forfeiting a $3 million federal grant because they don't expect the machines to be delivered by the May 16 primary.
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Election officials try to work out bugs Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 15, 2006 Beth Gallaspy, The Beaumont Enterprise 15 March 2006 BEAUMONT - Election officials in Jefferson County and with Election Systems & Software, the company that sold the county its new electronic voting system, are hoping to make changes to prevent future problems like the one that prompted a Monday recount.
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A small (we hope) problem with voting machines (NC - ES&S PCMCIA Cards) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, March 14, 2006 Mark Brinker Greensboro News-Record 14 March 2006
A couple folks have sent me this story and others like it from Ohio in recent days. The main thrust is this: A bunch of memory cards that are used as part of ES&S's optical scan voting equipment malfunctioned when tested in Ohio.
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Voting smooth despite glitches Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, March 14, 2006 Robert P. King Palm Beach Post 14 March 2006
Electronic cards got stuck in voting machines. Pricey touch-screen gizmos weren't working when voters showed up to cast their ballots. Just call it Election Day in Palm Beach County.
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Jefferson County to Recount Votes Monday Afternoon (ES&S) Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, March 13, 2006 KBTV 4 13 March 2006 The Jefferson County Elections office tells Hometown News there will be a recount of all primary election returns Monday afternoon. Hometown News first reported this information during a live news at four o`clock Monday afternoon.
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Jefferson County election recount (ES&S) Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, March 13, 2006 BETH GALLASPY, The Beaumont Enterprise 13 March 2006 BEAUMONT - An election night problem that resulted in an extra 5,000 votes being included in the Jefferson County tally is prompting a recount that could change last week's results.
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Group calls for audit of March 7 elections (Pinellas Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, March 13, 2006 WILL VAN SANT, St. Petersburgh Times 14 March 2006 CLEARWATER - State regulators are weighing an audit of Pinellas County's March 7 municipal elections, which snagged when a computer server froze and delayed the tallying of votes for two hours.
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Batteries trouble voting system (Summit Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 Lisa A. Abraham Akron Beacon Journal 03-11-06 Dead batteries that's what Election Systems & Software officials are saying is to blame for the failure of dozens of computer memory cards in Summit County's new optical scan voting system.
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Tracking the primary elections Texas Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 KRGV-TV 07 March 2006 Besides the usual sights of candidate supporters holding signs and voters streaming in and out, the Palmview Community Center has something you won?t find everywhere. The watchdog group, Futuro McAllen, has sent poll watchers to several spots in McAllen to make sure no one is interfering with the legal voting process.
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Voting woes mar debut of electronic ballots Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 Rolando Garcia, The Enterprise 08 March 2006 Election workers apparently skipped a step in counting ballots Tuesday night, halting the public release of most vote totals until about 11 p.m.
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Computer problems delay election returns Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 Paul A. Anthony San Angelo Standard-Times 07 March 2006 Problems with some of Tom Green County's new electronic scanners have delayed ballot counting in today's primary election, county elections administrator Mike Benton said.
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'New' voting machines aren't Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 Jerome L. Sherman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 03/11/06
It's a three-way trade involving Chicago, Las Vegas and Pittsburgh and almost $70 million. But the commodity at the center of this web isn't a group of star athletes. It's voting machines, all manufactured by Sequoia Voting Systems Inc. of Oakland, Calif.
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Voting machine support costly Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 Mary Beth Lane The Columbus Dispatch 03-05-06 The cost of service contracts for new touchscreen voting machines has left county elections officials across Ohio in sticker shock.
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Optical-scan cards show improvement (Summit Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 Lisa A. Abraham Akron Beacon Journal 10 March 2006 A new shipment of computer memory cards for voting equipment at the Summit County Board of Elections continued to experience failures Thursday but at a lower rate than those tested earlier in the week.
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Summit voting gear flunks (Summit Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 Lisa A Abraham Akron Beacon Journal 09 March 2006 The computer memory cards in the newoptical-scan voting equipment at the Summit County Board of Elections have experienced a 30 percent failure rate in testing this week.
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