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NEW: Voting problems minor, but frustrating    Story Here  Archive
Tracy Idell Hamilton San Antonio Express News 02 November 2004
Uncharged batteries in several touch-screen voting machines hampered early morning voting at a southeast Bexar County precinct for about two hours today, officials said.

E-voting problems reported as election gets under way    Story Here  Archive
Paul Roberts, IDG News Service 02 November 2004
Reports of problems with electronic voting technology cropped up across the country Tuesday, including the key states of Pennsylvania and Ohio, as millions of U.S. citizens flooded polling places for the country's presidential election.

Harsh weather, long lines, a few reports of problems at polls    Story Here  Archive
ALAN SAYRE Associated Press 02 November 2004
NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Rain around Louisiana made getting to polling places a soggy affair Tuesday, but the state's top election official disputed claims that there were widespread voting machine problems.

Nearly 40 Votes May Have Been Lost In Palm Beach County    Story Here  Archive
WKMG - TV Associated Press 02 November 2004
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Nine voting machines ran out of battery power and nearly 40 votes may have been lost in Palm Beach County, the first major problem reported on Election Day in the state that was the epicenter of the election fiasco four years ago.

Isolated voting problems reported across Texas    Story Here  Archive
LIZ AUSTIN Associated Press 02 November 2004
DALLAS - Long lines and stormy weather were the biggest hurdles most Texas voters faced on Election Day, but some voting machine problems were reported and an election judge accused of assaulting a federal election observer was replaced.

Surge in interest clogs election monitoring Web site    Story Here  Archive
Paul Roberts The Industry Standard 02 November 2004
Election monitors and technology experts at the Verified Voting Foundation expected that their Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS) would be a popular source of information about voting mishaps as millions of U.S. citizens took to the polls in the Nov. 2 presidential election but maybe not quite so popular. Besieged by requests for access to its sophisticated database of field reports of voting irregularities from across the nation, the public face of EIRS, www.voteprotect.org, slowed to a crawl Tuesday. By Tuesday afternoon, Eastern Standard Time (EST), systems administrators were rushing to bring additional servers on line to accommodate the crush of activity, according to Will Doherty, executive director of the Verified Voting Foundation.

Voting machine troubles cause long lines    Story Here  Archive
PHILIP ELLIOTT Courier & Press 02 November 2004
Voters found backed-up lines and electronic voting machines on the fritz Tuesday at some polling locations because, the county's top elections official said, poll workers weren't following directions or simply were not trained.

Activists seek to extend Orleans voting hours    Story Here  Archive
BRETT MARTEL Associated Press 02 November 2004
NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Voting activists asked a judge Tuesday evening for an emergency order extending poll hours in New Orleans until 10 p.m. ? two hours past the standard closing time ? so that voters who were improperly denied access to electronic voting booths could have time to return and cast a full ballot.

Illegal campaigning alleged at Iowa polling sites    Story Here  Archive
By LYNN CAMPBELL Des Moines Register 02 November 2004
Iowa was among at least five states - along with Minnesota, New Hampshire, Colorado and Michigan - where Republicans complained today that the left-leaning group MoveOn was illegally campaigning too close to polling sites.

Scattered Problems Impede Some Voting    Story Here  Archive
DEBORAH HASTINGS, AP National Writer 02 November 2004
Machines malfunctioned, tempers flared and edgy voters often waited hours Tuesday to pick a president in a contentious race watched by thousands of monitors who expected the worst.

Electronic Voting Glitches Reported    Story Here  Archive
Chris Gaither, Los Angeles Times 02 November 2004
Today's election was the first major test for the electronic voting machines, which record results on hard drives instead of on paper. More than 45 million people in 29 states, or 29% of the nation's electorate, were expected to cast votes on the new machines, up sharply from 12% in 2000.

Group tallies more than 1,100 e-voting glitches    Story Here  Archive
Grant Gross, IDG News Service 02 November 2004
U.S. voters calling in to a toll-free number had reported more than 1,100 separate incidents of problems with electronic voting machines and other voting technologies by late Tuesday during the nationwide election.

Officials say long lines, complex ballot cause most problems at polls    Story Here  Archive
JIM WASSERMAN Associated Press 02 November 2004
SACRAMENTO - Elections officials reported a mostly smooth vote Tuesday in California, noting only minor complaints as people cast ballots and scattered malfunctions among 28,000 electronic voting machines.

Electronic Voting Machine Woes Reported    Story Here  Archive
Rachel Konrad Associated Press 02 November 2004
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. ? Voters nationwide reported some 1,100 problems with electronic voting machines on Tuesday, including trouble choosing their intended candidates.

Vote on e-Voting Machines    Story Here  Archive
by Thomas M. Stockwell MCPress 01 November 2004
Tomorrow, November 2, 2004, we'll see the culmination of the e-voting efforts that have preoccupied state election officials across the United States for the last four years. It has been an IT effort of unparalleled sensitivity, garnering national media attention. Yet, on the eve of the 2004 Presidential election, it is still unclear if the various voting systems employed by the states and municipalities will prove to be a boon to the cause of democracy or one more contentious element in a very close and highly contentious election. Tomorrow, we will all find out.

E-Voting Tests Get Failing Grade    Story Here  Archive
Kim Zetter WiredNews 01 November 2004
In 1996, a federal testing lab responsible for evaluating voting systems in the United States examined the software for a new electronic voting machine made by I-Mark Systems of Omaha, Nebraska.
The tester included a note in the lab's report praising the system for having the best voting software he had ever seen, particularly the security and use of encryption.


State Election Commission has met challenge    Story Here  Archive
Laurel Suggs Opinion Charleston Post and Courier 01 November 2004
There has been, and continues to be, so much media coverage about the "hazards of HAVA" (the 2002 federal legislation entitled "Help America Vote Act"), centered mostly on the integrity of electronic voting machines, that some will go into this election uncertain about the integrity of our voting system, no matter how many facts are presented to reassure the voter.

Two state firms just hope for glitch-free election    Story Here  Archive
Roger Fillion, Rocky Mountain News 01 NOvember 2004
Two Colorado companies are no doubt hoping for a relatively glitch- free election Tuesday.
Ciber Inc. and SysTest Labs are among three companies nationwide authorized by state officials to test the accuracy of touch-screen voting systems that more than 45 million Americans will have the opportunity to use.


Voting machines rejected    Story Here  Archive
By LISA DEMER Anchorage Daily News 01 November 2004
The state won't use 100 new touchscreen voting machines in Tuesday's election because of increasing concerns about their lack of a paper trail and vulnerability, said Laura Glaiser, director of the state Divisions of Elections.
The state spent almost $300,000 to buy the machines last year. But unless they can be upgraded with the addition of a paper trail, they likely will never be used, she said.


Voters Turned Away After Waiting Hours    Story Here  Archive
WPLG, Local 10, Miami and Fort Lauderdale 1 November 2004
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. After waiting in line for several hours, several voters were told late Sunday evening that they would have to come back another day to be able to cast their ballot.

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