Electronic voting comes to county (McLennan Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Cindy V. Culp Waco Tribune-Herald 23 August 2005
Paper ballots are pretty much a thing of the past for McLennan County elections. About 500 electronic voting machines were delivered to the local elections office Monday, ushering in a new era of ballot casting. They will replace the so-called optical scan machines the county has been using, which had voters fill in ovals on a paper ballot.
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Morgan to receive voting equipment (Morgan Co., UT) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Deanne Winterton Standard-Examiner 23 August 2005 MORGAN The Morgan County Council approved a contract with the state Friday that allows the county to move into the computerized age of elections.
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Clark: Voting-machine price should be low despite smaller order (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 23, 2005 John Fuquay The Clarion-Ledger 23 August 2005 Counties' decision not to buy machines hiked per-unit cost $387, secretary of state says
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Lobbying effort not seen here (Washington Co., WV) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 23, 2005 JUSTIN McINTOSH The Parkersburg News and Sentinel 23 August 2005 MARIETTA - Washington County Board of Elections members said they have not been pressured or offered money to a particular voting machine, as other counties in the state reported last week.
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Paper primary ballots predicted (Erie Co., NY) Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 23, 2005 ROBERT J. McCARTHY The Buffalo News 23 August 2005 Erie County election officials are preparing for a Sept. 13 primary that could see up to one-third of voters casting their ballots the old-fashioned way - on paper.
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Clark needs to deliver on promise Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Opinion Hattiesburg American 23 August 2005
The most accurate elections in the history of Mississippi. That's what Secretary of State Eric Clark promised Friday will be the result of the decision by a vast majority of Mississippi counties to use new electronic, touch-screen voting machines.
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Computer experts to review voting machines (Franklin Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, August 22, 2005 Associated Press 22 August 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio - A county elections board has asked a team of computer experts to test its recently purchased touch-screen voting machines to ensure the devices' programs are sound.
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Call in backups for computer voting (Indiana) Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, August 22, 2005 Editorial Indianapolis Star 22 August 2005 Our position is: Indiana should join 25 other states in requiring a paper trail for computerized balloting.
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Elections staff to begin training for voting system (Hidalgo Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, August 22, 2005 Agnes Jasinski The Monitor 22 August 2005 EDINBURG ? The "dinosaur-ish" Shoup voting machines have officially been put to rest in Hidalgo County, making way for touchscreen voting machines ready for use later this year.
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New voting machines will fade as issue (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, August 21, 2005 Charlie Mitchell Vicksburg Post 21 August 2005 VICKSBURG ? In two years, perhaps less, the vast majority of Mississippians will wonder what all the fuss was about, says Secretary of State Eric Clark.
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County shops for new voting machine (Beaver Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, August 21, 2005 J.D. Prose, Beaver County Times 21 August 2005 BEAVER - Beaver County officials are expecting to return from a convention in Philadelphia this week with potential replacements for the county's banned Patriot touch-screen voting system.
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Voter access lagging (Indiana) Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, August 21, 2005 MARTIN DeAGOSTINO South Bend Tribune 21 August 2005 Unsteadied by Parkinson's disease, Michael V. Houghton Sr. no longer participates in the binding civic rite of Election Day voting.
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Montgomery and Other Counties May Not be Ready For Voters (Alabama) Story Here Archive |
Published:Sunday, August 21, 2005 WSFA News 21 August 2005 There's an election battle brewing in Alabama and it has nothing to do with the candidates. A deadline is looming for the entire state to change its voting system. Dozens of counties may not be ready when the next election rolls around in June. Those are the fears of probate judges across the state who are now trying to get an extension. Why won't we meet the deadline and who's responsible?
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Diebold hires top Dem for PR blitz Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 20, 2005 Ian Hoffman ANG News 20 August 2005 With a phone call and a retainer, Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell has launched former Democratic National Committee chairman Joe Andrew on a 50-state ambassadorship for electronic voting.
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Herbert finishes voting machine pitch (Utah) Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 20, 2005 Arrin Newton Brunson Salt Lake City Tribune 20 August 2005 LOGAN - His ambitious campaign completed, now Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert will just have to wait for the final tally as county officials decide the best way to comply with the 2002 Help America Vote Act.
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Questions raised on voting machine paper backups (Utah) Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 20, 2005 Associated Press 20 August 2005 SALT LAKE CITY Questions have been raised as to whether paper backups produced by the state-ed electronic voting machines will qualify for election recounts.
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Challenge to election process possible (Utica, Hinds Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 20, 2005 Raymond Reeves The Clarion Ledger 20 August 2005 UTICA ? Mayor Charles Stokes' re-election was validated Friday morning after a meeting with the Hinds County Election Commission confirmed a recount of Tuesday's elections was accurate.
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76 counties sign up for voting machines (Mississippi) Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 20, 2005 Laura Hipp and Josh Cogswell The Clarion Ledger 20 August 2005 Most of Mississippi's 82 counties joined a $22.5 million state contract to purchase voting machines after the deadline for a decision passed Friday.
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Supervisors say no to secretary of state's plan (Lee Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 20, 2005 LEESHA FAULKNER Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal 20 August 2005 TUPELO - Lee County supervisors took less than 20 minutes Friday to vote 4-1 against Secretary of State Eric Clark's plan for touch-screen voting machines.
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HAVA and the Rush to Poor Judgment Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, August 20, 2005 Vickie Karp OpEdNews 20 August 2005 If you liked the Orwellian-named ?Clear Skies Initiative?or the ?No Child Left Behind? Act, you should really love the ?Help America Vote Act?, another farce brought to you by our esteemed leaders in the White House and Congress.
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