Disabled are pleased with e-voting    Story Here  Archive

By STEPHEN MANNING, Associated Press 03 October 2004 COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - This November, Eileen Rivera Ley, 41, will vote by herself for the first time. Blind voters in Maryland and several other states will use electronic voting machines equipped with technology that allows the disabled to vote independently.

Appeal deadline passes in manual recount case    Story Here  Archive

by Jack Gurney Pelican Press 02 October 2004 Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood will apparently abide by an administrative law judge's ruling that Sarasota County and 15 other counties must be capable of conducting manual recounts with their paperless touch-screen voting matches. But she hasn't said how.

Duval County: Touch-screen voting machines won't be ready for election    Story Here  Archive

Associated Press 02 October 2004 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Duval County won't have touch-screen voting machines for the disabled in place by the November election, despite a judge's order, election officials said in a court filing.

Joe Crankshaw: Carter is right?voting machines are a huge issue    Story Here  Archive

By Joe Crankshaw Scripps 01 October 2004 Gov. Jeb Bush is a tad upset at former President Jimmy Carter, who said that conditions do not exist to assure a fair election in Florida. Carter said there are too many questions about the touch screen voting machines that don't produce a paper trail. The governor said the former president is "haranguing" and that "conspiracy theories" are ridiculous.

Error will force Hamilton County to reissue 17,500 absentee ballots    Story Here  Archive

By Cindi Andrews Cincinnatti Enquirer 01 October 2004 Ballots sent to 17,500 absentee voters in Hamilton County this week will be reissued because about 3,400 of them could foil a voter's intention. An error in how the ballot was structured would have given votes intended for William Brayshaw, the county engineer who is running unopposed for re-election, to Nancy Fuerst, a Democratic candidate for Ohio Supreme Court.

Voting without a receipt    Story Here  Archive

By Courtney Hunter The Guilfordian 01 October 2004 The presidential election is a little over a month away, and the controversy over electronic voting is in full swing. Computer scientists, civil rights groups, and public officials are banding together to protest the use of electronic voting machines, which, according to The Economist, will be used by 50 million people (one third of all voters), this November.

The Perils of Polling    Story Here  Archive

Spectrum IEEE Online. October 2004. By Steven Cherry This November, people all over the United States will cast ballots using methods that span centuries of technological development. In fact, in this technologically advanced country, more than half of the voters will mark their choices by hand on paper ballots, just as their great-great-great-grandparents may have done.

Libertarians score ballot spots    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 JOSEPH TURNER; The Tacoma News Tribune The Libertarian Party candidates for U.S. Senate and governor will appear on the Nov. 2 general election ballot even though they got less than 1 percent of the vote in the September primary election.

Florida fiasco keeps Bush's votes in safe hands    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 By ANDREW GUMBEL as reported in the New Zealand Herald 30 September 2004 Of the many weird and unsettling developments in Florida since the presidential election meltdown four years ago, none is so startling as the fact that Theresa LePore, the calamitously incompetent elections supervisor of Palm Beach County, still has her job.

DOWN FOR THE RECOUNT    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 Andrew Gumble LA City Beat 30 September 2004 Bad news for the campaigners trying to force Riverside County to come clean about the inner workings of its controversial electronic voting machines. A local judge last week rejected a lawsuit brought by an aggrieved candidate, Linda Soubirous, who was trying to acquire backup data from a contentious local election held last March. The judge found no merit in her argument that the data was essential to the conduct of a meaningful recount.

Quest for paper vote trail heats up    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 By David Damron Orlando Sentinel 30 September 2004 With the 2004 election barely a month away, Gov. Jeb Bush's election chief is seeking another round of opinions this week on how to recount votes cast on paperless electronic voting machines.

Florida still lacks uniform voting standard    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 Opinion in Miami Herald 30 September 2004 Florida Congressman Robert Wexler's seemingly moribund quest for a statewide paper trail of votes cast on electronic voting machines got a reprieve this week from the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, and that's good news for Florida's voters.

Black Voters 'Afraid' of Electronic Voting Machines, Activist Says    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 By Marc Morano CyberNewsService 30 September 2004 Miami (CNSNews.com) - An African-American civil rights spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the new computerized voting machines "terrify" her, and that blacks are "afraid of machines like that."

Diebold Rep Now Runs Elections    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 Kim Zetter Wired News 30 September 2004 An influential employee of voting machine maker Diebold Election Systems left the company recently to take a job as elections manager for a California county. Deborah Seiler, a sales representative for the beleaguered voting company, was hired a week ago and started Monday in Solano County, northeast of San Francisco in California's wine country. The position puts her second in command of elections in the county, under the registrar of voters.

Glitch in Ohio election law may mean some provisional votes get thrown out    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 By Meghan Crosby Athens News Voters who are registered to vote in any Ohio county are eligible to cast a ballot in the precinct where they live using a provisional ballot, but a strict interpretation of state law may deny some a chance to weigh in on this year's elections.

Change in software made primary inherently unfair    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 John Mills Opinion in Tacoma News Tribune 30 September 2004 Republicans think Libertarian Jeff Jared cost Slade Gorton his seat in the 2000 U.S. Senate race and accordingly cost the Republicans control of the U.S. Senate. They don't want a repeat this year, so Sam Reed, our Republican secretary of state, thinks the Libertarians should butt out of the U.S. Senate race this November.

Hart-Intercivic And ES&S Up To No Good    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 David Allan as printed in Scoop 30 September 2004 I have come into possession of a pair of letters written by a former Hart-Intercivic technician to the Secretaries of State for Ohio and Texas. These letters detail a 'long history of concealing problems' and a willingness to ignore potentially serious problems 'largely for the sake of corporate profit'.

Senate candidate wants recount    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, September 29, 2004 JOSEPH TURNER; The Tacoma News Tribune 29 September 2004 The Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate, who fell 100 votes short of winning a spot on the general election ballot, is asking a judge to make state election officials put his name there anyway. J. Mills, a member of the Libertarian Party of Washington, claims that the computer software used to count ballots in the Sept. 14 primary election could be unreliable and might not have counted all the votes he got.

Paper Trail    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, September 29, 2004 Editorial Indiana Courier Press 29 September 2004 For our grandchildren, and for their children, the future of electronic voting is limitless. Indeed, by the time they are of voting age, even the term "electronic" may be archaic. Future generations will likely be voting from their homes on secured devices unimagined today. But today, we are in the pioneer age of electronic voting. These touch-screen devices we will be using Nov. 2 are the Model-Ts of electronic voting. There is much to learn from experience, much that we do not know. And that's why citizens concerned about the integrity of the voting process worry that the system Vanderburgh County will be using this fall does not provide for a paper trail of the votes cast.

Pending fiasco    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, September 29, 2004 Editorial Volusia-Flagler News Journal 29 September 2004 What can save the Florida election now? It's a dispiriting question. The stage is set for disaster. Fifteen counties will be using a paperless, touch-screen voting system that has a deeply troubling record of inaccuracy, and state officials have managed to tangle up valid challenges long enough to make it unlikely a more reliable method can be found. (Volusia and Flagler counties use the more reliable optical-scan voting machines, which produce paper ballots.)

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