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Ensign Backs E-Voting Paper Trail    Story Here  Archive
Published:Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Roy Mark Internet News.com 09 February 2005
Nevada lawmakers introduced legislation today to require a paper trail be used with all touch-screen voting machines. In the 2004 national elections, Nevada was the only state to require e-voting machines to produce a paper backup of votes.

N.C. legislative panel proposes requiring paper ballot    Story Here  Archive
Published:Wednesday, February 9, 2005
GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press 09 February 2005
A divided legislative panel agreed Wednesday that every vote cast in North Carolina should generate a paper ballot starting next year, an attempt to avoid a repeat of 4,438 votes lost due to machine error in Carteret County last fall.

New U.S. legislation would require e-voting paper trail    Story Here  Archive
Published:Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Grant Gross IDG News 09 February 2005
FEBRUARY 09, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - A group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced a bill that would require electronic touch-screen voting machines to allow for a so-called voter-verifiable paper trail.

Petro says state can't mandate vote systems    Story Here  Archive
Published:Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Mark Naymik Cleveland Plain Dealer 09 February 2005

Ohio voters should not sharpen their pencils just yet. Attorney General Jim Petro said Tuesday that the secretary of state can't force election boards to use optical-scan voting systems that rely on pencil and paper.



Fixing America's Broken Elections    Story Here  Archive
Published:Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Rep. John Conyers Progressive Trail 08 February 2005
The election debacles in Florida's 2000 presidential election and Ohio's 2004 election clearly demonstrate that our nation still has a long way to go in the continuing fight for electoral justice. Our nation cannot withstand deficiencies in machines and procedures that foster legitimate questions about the validity of the election outcome. Our democracy is at risk, and the time is now to move forward with election reform legislation.

How do you move and store a 47-pound voting machine?    Story Here  Archive
Published:Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Matt Sluman Seneca Advertiser-Tribune 08 February 2005
The Seneca County commissioners still must determine where to store optical scan voting machines after the elections board decides between two qualified vendors.

Election Systems & Software wins scanner contract    Story Here  Archive
Published:Tuesday, February 8, 2005
DIANE ERWIN Springfield News-Sun 08 February 2005
As a member of the Clark County Board of Elections, Dan Harkins was partially responsible Monday for choosing which optical scan machine voters will use in November.

GOP wants a retally of county votes    Story Here  Archive
Published:Tuesday, February 8, 2005
CARRIE LEVINE Charlotte Observer 08 February 2005
Local Republicans want Mecklenburg County election officials to immediately retally election results in the wake of a ruling last week by the N.C. Supreme Court.

Paper trail for votes to cost $4.3 million    Story Here  Archive
Published:Tuesday, February 8, 2005
JOAN OSTERWALDER / The Press-Enterprise 08 February 2005
Creating a paper trail for electronic voting machines will cost Riverside County a pretty penny. But at the moment no one is exactly sure where the needed funds will come from.

New voting system in by November    Story Here  Archive
Published:Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Justin McIntosh Marietta Times 08 February 2005
The changes to Washington County polling places expected to prevent the voting disasters experienced in the 2000 presidential election will be ready for November's general election.

County should be wary of voting technology    Story Here  Archive
Published:Tuesday, February 8, 2005
OpEd Oakland Tribune 08 February 2005
BEFORE Alameda County shells out big bucks for another version of Diebold's electronic voting system, officials ought to take a long, hard look at whether it's worth the investment. Being first when buying new technology isn't always best.

Sheriff to probe voting by felons    Story Here  Archive
Published:Tuesday, February 8, 2005
ADAM WILSON The Olympian 08 February 2005
The Thurston County sheriff is investigating allegations of illegal voting in the November election, saying the effort will boost the public's confidence in the election system.

Media Alert: See AccuPoll VVPAT Voting Machines in Action    Story Here  Archive
Published:Monday, February 7, 2005
Media Alert AccuPoll 07 February 2005
TUSTIN, Calif.(BUSINESS WIRE)Feb. 7, 2005Long Beach UAW Local 148 Union Chapter has ed AccuPoll to conduct its annual election tomorrow, February 8, 2005. Members will be making their ions using AccuPoll's electronic voting system featuring a voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT).

Hart states its case    Story Here  Archive
Published:Monday, February 7, 2005
RICHARD VALENTY Colorado Daily 07 January 2005
The Boulder County Election Review Committee heard system vendor Hart InterCivic's version of what could have caused slow 2004 election results last Friday - and as Hart and printing company EagleDirect trade jabs, ERC members are asking for all cooperation possible to prevent a repeat performance.

Spitzer: State Legislature must act on vote system overhaul    Story Here  Archive
Published:Monday, February 7, 2005
MARC HUMBERT Associated Press 07 February 2005
ALBANY, N.Y. The Legislature's failure to agree on an overhaul of New York's voting system _ from new machines to computerized registration lists _ is "an embarrassment" that could cost the state $219 million in federal funds, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Monday.

G.O.P. Election Reform Bill Now Before Senate Considered By Progressive Activists to Be Better Than Democratic One    Story Here  Archive
Published:Monday, February 7, 2005
Nashua Advocate Staff 07 February 2005
Here at The Advocate, we call it like we see it and what we see as we look out on the election reform movement today is two competing and mutually exclusive election reform bills in the U.S. Senate.

Election Officials Work on Making Changes    Story Here  Archive
Published:Monday, February 7, 2005
ROBERT TANNER, Associated Press 07 February 2005
Flaw-proof election machines. Easy-to-read ballots. Registration systems that catch double-voters or dead voters still on the rolls.

County launching new voting system on April 5    Story Here  Archive
Published:Monday, February 7, 2005
DAVID SILVERBERG Daily American Republic 07 February 2005
Butler County's new Optech Insight optical scan voting system will be used for the first time during the April 5 election.

Punch card cast aside in elections    Story Here  Archive
Published:Monday, February 7, 2005
Julie Wallace Akron Beacon 08 February 2005

Area voters will be casting their ballots in a different way in the near future. Gone will be the punch-card ballots that have garnered so much controversy since the 2000 presidential election. In their place will be what can best be described as a throwback to the bubble tests from high school those that required filling in a circle next to the correct answer with the mandated No. 2 pencil.



Tracking of felon voting flawed    Story Here  Archive
Published:Sunday, February 6, 2005
BRAD SHANNON The Olympian 06 February 2005
Washington's system for taking away the voting rights of convicted felons and later giving them back is so confusing that some felons are able to register and vote illegally.

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