Make sure voters can count on system Story Here Archive |
Opinion Indianapolis Star 20 December 2004 Our position is: Americans need assurance that when they go to the polls, their votes will count.
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Irregularities in Ohio Story Here Archive |
Matt Loy Harvard Crimson 20 December 2004 While Harvard students mull over the split ticket outcome of the recent Undergraduate Council presidential elections, Ohio residents are still technically waiting for the results of another election?their Electoral College delegation for last month?s presidential race. Six weeks and one major Eastern European voting scandal later, what happened on November 2 in the Buckeye State remains unclear. Though Bush?s victory is not realistically under scrutiny, Ohio voters deserve a quicker and more thorough examination of the election results than they will receive.
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Ohio Recount Stirs Trouble Story Here Archive |
Kim Zetter WiredNews 20 December 2004 As a statewide election recount got underway in Ohio last week, a Democratic congressman called on the FBI to impound vote-tabulating computers in at least one county and investigate suspicions of election tampering in the state.
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Count Every Vote Story Here Archive |
Editorial New York Times 20 December 2004 Every vote is supposed to count in America, but candidates too often maneuver to disqualify votes that they think might go to the other side. A month and a half after Election Day, battles are still raging in Washington State and in San Diego over whether to count all of the votes that were cast. The answer to that question must be yes.
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State's counties vary on verifying signatures Story Here Archive |
Associated Press 20 December 2004 SEATTLE Procedures for validating ballot signatures vary widely from county to county in Washington state, a fact that has become significant given the razor-thin margin of the governor's race. A survey by The Seattle Times showed that counties use different procedures for evaluating signatures, the newspaper reported Sunday.
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Green Party official pleased with local recount of presidential vote Story Here Archive |
David Laber Athens NEWS 20 December 2004 The statewide presidential recount is not over yet, but in most of southeastern Ohio, county boards of elections have complied with requests and the voting counts are accurate, a regional coordinator said.
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Congressman calls for investigation of election in Hocking County Story Here Archive |
David Laber Athens News 20 December 2004 An affidavit signed by the Hocking County Board of Elections deputy director has prompted the ranking Democratic member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to ask for further investigation into possible vote fraud.
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Wash. Supreme Court to decide fate of King County disputed ballots Story Here Archive |
KING and AP Staff 20 December 2004 TUKWILA, Wash. - Washington's Supreme Court will hear an appeal Wednesday morning by Washington's Democrats, who are asking the court to overturn a judge's decision and allow King County to include 723 disputed ballots in the hand recount of the Washington governor's race.
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Election study finds widespread ballot-counting problems Story Here Archive |
THOMAS HARGROVE Scripps Howard News Service December 20, 2004 A review of election results in a 10-county sampling revealed more than 12,000 ballots that failed to record a vote for president, almost one in every 10 ballots cast. The unofficial audit by Scripps Howard News Service uncovered malfunctioning voting machines, improperly designed ballots and poor accounting procedures around the nation.
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Democrats advocate a cherished value Story Here Archive |
JIM SAWYER GUEST COLUMNIST Seattle Post-Intelligencer 20 December 2004 Washington state has become ground zero in the war between reds and blues as the gubernatorial race between Republican Dino Rossi and Democrat Christine Gregoire heads to the wire. The chairmen of both political parties Republican Chris Vance and Democrat Paul Berendt need to chill out.
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Other counties included 'new' ballots in recounts Story Here Archive |
Rebecca Cook Associated Press 21 December 2004 At least five Washington counties found ballots that weren't included in the original tally for governor and added them to the recount, according to an affidavit by state Elections Director Nick Handy.
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Other Counties Tallied New Ballots In Their Recount Story Here Archive |
KOMO Staff & News Services 20 December 2004 SEATTLE - At least five Washington counties found ballots that weren't included in the original tally for governor and added them to the recount, according to an affidavit by state Elections Director Nick Handy.
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Voting Rights Groups 'Block' Talk of Machine-Free Elections Story Here Archive |
Lynn Landes FreePress 20 December 2004 So much for a free and fair exchange of ideas. At conferences and hearings across the country, traditional voting rights organizations have successfully blocked any serious debate on machine-free, paper-only elections. It appears that our well-entrenched so-called 'voting rights' organizations, including the NAACP and ACLU, haven't absorbed the lesson from America's election debacles. They would rather invite the industry-funded National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) to speak at their conferences, than invite researchers and activists who will argue that the machines must go.
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Ohio Recount: Interview with Chair of Franklin County's Board of Elections Story Here Archive |
Elites TV. December 20, 2004 Like Tim Burke, Chair of Hamilton County's Board of Elections, William A. Anthony, Jr., chair of Franklin County's Board of Elections disagrees with the uniformly positive statements coming out of Ohio's secretary of state's office.
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Voting in America: The flaws persist Story Here Archive |
The Roanoke Times 19 December 2004
The Florida vote-count debacle of 2000 did not recur in 2004. For that, however, credit the fact that this year's presidential election was not as agonizingly close as in 2000. Do not credit great strides toward a fairer, more accurate and more confidence-inspiring system of voting and vote-counting. The latter does not yet exist. The Florida margin in 2000 was extraordinarily tight: George W. Bush won the state that year by 537 votes (officially, anyway) out of millions cast, and the election hinged on Florida's electoral votes.
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Governor's Race So Close, Yet So Divisive Story Here Archive |
Sam Howe Verhovek, Los Angeles Times 19 December 2004 SEATTLE ? Every vote counts, and every vote should be counted. If only it were that simple.
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Ohio Election Officials Obstruct Recount. Story Here Archive |
News Release Green Party USA 19 December 2004 Reports from throughout Ohio present a clear and disturbing pattern of state and local election officials obstructing the recount of Ohio?s 2004 presidential vote, according to the Green Party?s presidential campaign which initiated the recount and is monitoring the process.
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Elections directors shop for solutions Story Here Archive |
RICHARD RUBIN Charlotte Observer 19 December 2004 Some of the latest voting machines on the market will be on display in Raleigh on Monday, ready for an N.C. commission on electronic voting to examine.
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Elections directors shop for solutions Story Here Archive |
RICHARD RUBIN Charlotte Observer 19 December 2004 Some of the latest voting machines on the market will be on display in Raleigh on Monday, ready for an N.C. commission on electronic voting to examine.
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Elections directors shop for solutions Story Here |
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