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The Secretaries Revolt Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, April 25, 2005 DeForest "Buster" Soaries is resigning this week after a tumultuous stint as the first chairman of the Election Assistance Commission, an obscure federal agency that some want to have increasing power and influence over how the 50 states conduct elections. Let's hope Mr. Soaries's departurecombined with the fact that the EAC will go out of business this year unless Congress reauthorizes itgenerates a national debate over just how much we want our elections run from Washington. |
Failing the Electoral Standards Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, April 25, 2005 The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has been monitoring elections in emerging democracies ever since the fall of the Berlin wall, but now it has done something different and uniquely controversial. It has turned its attention to the United States, issuing a report that highlights numerous areas in which this past November's presidential and Congressional elections failed to meet international standards. |
Vote Fraud Theorists Battle Over Plausibility Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, April 25, 2005 After my recent column on President Bush's popularity woes, a torrent of e-mail flooded in from angry Democrats insisting that Bush's relative lack of popularity only reinforced their belief that the 2004 election was stolen. |
Van gives voters a look at touch screen machines (Orangeburg Co., SC) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, April 24, 2005 Hanging chads, pregnant chads, dimpled chads. No chads is the rallying cry for Orangeburg County election officials as the county seeks to welcome the latest in touchscreen voting technology later this year. |
Bartlett tells Duplin waiting on new voting machines wise (Duplin Co., NC) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, April 24, 2005 KENANSVILLE Duplin County officials were wise not to rush out and buy new voting machines until new federal standards are in place, says the executive director of the state Board of Elections. |
Voter verification critical for touch-screen machines (Opinion) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, April 24, 2005 I am appalled that Secretary of State Glenda Hood and state elections officials have been promoting touch-screen voting machines with all the enthusiasm of hired salespeople, in spite of mounting evidence that these machines have failed miserably in elections nationwide. |
The ballot question remains unanswered (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, April 24, 2005 HARRISBURG - The touch-screen voting system used by Beaver County repeatedly failed Friday to register the fingertip touches of an examiner during a sometimes-tense retest that will determine whether the system is certified in the state. |
Pierce had vote foul-up, too (Pierce Co., WA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 23, 2005 If misery loves company, beleaguered King County elections workers may be pleased to know that their counterparts in Pierce County ran into problems of their own handling pesky provisional ballots in the 2004 election. |
Georgia Gov. Signs Voter ID Bill Into Law Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 23, 2005 ATLANTA ? Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue signed into law Friday a bill requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification, an issue so emotional for black legislators that they staged a walkout from the Capitol this spring. |
Electronic voting coming soon to South Dakota Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 23, 2005 South Dakota is on track to receive electronic touch-screen voting machines and optical-scan ballot counters by the end of this year, Secretary of State Chris Nelson said Friday. |
South Dakota reaches deal for touch-screen voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 23, 2005 PIERRE - Secretary of State Chris Nelson said Friday he has reached a $4.6 million deal with an Omaha company to supply touch-screen voting machines for every South Dakota county. |
Did early closures affect BOE outcome? (Salem, NJ) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 23, 2005 SALEM Two voting machines were turned off an hour early at a Salem polling station during the Tuesday school elections, city and election officials said this week. |
Lawmakers In Albany Struggle To Come Up With Voting Reform Plan (New York) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 23, 2005 New York is the only state in the nation that doesn't have a plan to modernize voting procedures. But it's no surprise old-style politics is keeping state lawmakers from reaching an agreement, even with $$200 million in federal funding in jeopardy. |
Bowie County committee picks e-voting vendor (Texas) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 23, 2005 NEW BOSTON, Texas-After a full month of study, the Bowie County Voting Systems Committee voted Friday to one of four electronic voting systems vendors to supply the county with equipment before next year's elections. |
Task force seeks earlier primary in presidential years (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 22, 2005 HARRISBURG - The state's primary election should be moved from May to early March in presidential years to give Pennsylvania greater weight in national elections, according to a task force convened by Gov. Ed Rendell to broadly review the state's election law. |
Woman's quest to decertify voting system succeeds (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 22, 2005 NEW SEWICKLEY TWP. - Sheila Green said she never wanted to be a crusader against Beaver County's electronic voting system, but county officials just wouldn't heed her warnings. |
Call for instant runoffs may prove costly (Alameda Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 22, 2005 A growing movement in favor of instant-runoff voting in Alameda County is being thwarted by the manufacturer of the county's electronic voting machines, critics charged. |
Coalition wants to radically alter Ohio's elections (Ohio) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 22, 2005 Columbus - Voters in November could see three issues on the ballot aimed at radically changing the future of elections in Ohio. |
State reviews voting machines a second time Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 22, 2005 HARRISBURG, Pa. - For two weeks, Jack Gerbel has criticized the state's decision to decertify his company's touch-screen voting machines from use in Pennsylvania. |
House overwhelmingly votes to pass final election reform bills Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 22, 2005 The House overwhelming voted Friday to pass the two major bills of an election reform package, which had been held up by a battle over how voters should identify themselves at the polls. |
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