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Receipt negates 'hanging chad' worry (Gloucester Co., NJ) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 Voters who cast ballots on electronic machines like the ones used in Gloucester County will get a receipt under a bill signed into law by Acting Gov. Richard Codey. |
New vote system is touching (Monterey Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 Elections in Monterey County will soon be conducted by touch-screen voting machines that look as though they could be R2-D2's grandchildren. |
Bucks urged to vote out machines (Bucks Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 A citizens group called on the Bucks County commissioners Wednesday to turn down state aid to replace the county's voting machines, and instead provide stopgap measures to make the Eisenhower-era devices comply with the 2002 U.S. Help America Vote Act. |
Optical-scan systems are best choice for voting (New York) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 In a recent oped article in The Buffalo News, Jeffrey Zaino of the American Arbitration Association questioned whether New York State would be ready for the 2006 elections. Zaino's concern is shared by the League of Women Voters of New York State. |
Commissioners await guidance on voting machines (Bucks Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 Demonstrators armed with signs and scads of questions about voting machines dominated Wednesday's meeting of Bucks County's commissioners. |
First company OK'd to offer touch-screen voting machines in Missouri Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The secretary of state's office said Thursday it has approved the first company to offer touch-screen voting machines in Missouri. |
N.C. Senate panel backs voting machine standards, paper records Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 RALEIGH, N.C. A Senate committee Thursday recommended new voting machine standards that would require a paper record of each ballot cast and require sample hand counts to ensure accurate totals. |
Bucks making sure its votes count (Bucks Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 New federal and state laws stipulate replacement voting machines must be ordered by the end of the year, in place and ready for use by next year's May primary. Since the switch from the decades-old manual machines to new electronic voting machines is not voluntary, county commissioners are forced to explore the issue further and make a change soon. |
Is Your Vote Your Vote? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 On June 1, 2005, I received a consumer alert from www.Blackboxvoting.org. It indicated that when the Diebold optical scan voting machines in Leon County, Fla., were tested, they were "hacked" (altered) in three different ways. The complete report is at http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVreport.pdf. |
Election official's pay docked for forwarding political donation (Franklin Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 20, 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio - The director of the Franklin County Board of Elections will lose 30 days' pay for forwarding a $10,000 check to the Republican Party from a voting-machine company's representative. |
Board should hold a revote in the city (Berks Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 20, 2005 The Issue: The Berks County Elections Board decides not to hold a special election in four city precincts where 111 votes were lost during the primary election. |
Voting machines won't stand up, Bucks solicitor warns (Bucks Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Bucks County's voting machines 'would not comply' with state or federal laws, and the county should move forward on a mandate to replace them by the end of the year. |
$10,000 check not from us, Diebold says (Ohio) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Diebold Corp., the Green-based maker of electronic voting machines, is denying any involvement in a $10,000 check one of its outside consultants handed to Franklin County's elections director on a day the board was opening bids for new voter-registration software. |
Electronic Voting Law Splits Florida Disabled Advocates (Volusia Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Jul 20 - An approaching deadline for the purchase and installation of electronic voting machines designed to ease the voting process for Florida?s disabled citizens has pulled one county into court and created a rift in the state?s disabled advocacy community over the necessity of including paper receipts on the machines. |
A new way of voting (Leflore Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Leflore County election commissioners are pleased so far with the touch screen voting machines suggested by Secretary of State Eric Clark. |
McKinney urges inquiry into electronic voting (Georgia) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 19, 2005 Fourth-District Rep. Cynthia McKinney on Monday called for an investigation of the state's electronic voting machines, pointing to numerous problems with equipment failure, defects and software problems in the 2002 elections. |
County to review voting machine proposals (MIssissippi) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 19, 2005 NATCHEZ - County supervisors will review proposals from several voting machine companies before ing one from which to buy machines that disabled people can use more easily. |
County squares off with Secretary Clark over voting machines (DeSoto Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 19, 2005 At Monday?s Board of Supervisors meeting County Election Commission Chairman Paul Beale said the county?s optical scan voting machines meet all federal requirements under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). |
County unveils finalists for new voting machine (Luzerne Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 19, 2005 County commissioners must choose one voting machine for all 316 precincts in Luzerne County within the next two months. The public was invited to the courthouse to try out prospective models and speak with company representatives. |
Why voters dislike machines (North Carolina) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 19, 2005 North Carolinians can regain some trust in the accuracy of election returns if the General Assembly requires voting machines to make printed records and let voters check them before they leave the booth. |
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