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In Stuart, Sen. Nelson urges voting machine audit    Story Here  Archive
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004
By Charlie Reed for TCPalm.com 05 August 2004
STUART — Citing an increased risk for malfunction in touch-screen voting machines such as those now used in Martin County, Sen. Bill Nelson on Wednesday urged state officials to audit the new system before Election Day.

McMaster gives new voting system green light    Story Here  Archive
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004
by JENNIFER HOLLAND for Associated Press 05 August 2004
COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina's new touch-screen voting machines meet federal requirements, the state attorney general says, despite complaints from a group that promotes voter education and participation.

Election Board Okays Ballot Design    Story Here  Archive
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004
By Jim Shella for WISH-TV 05 August 2004
(Marion County) - The Marion County election board adopted a ballot design for the November election Thursday that should eliminate the controversy that led to a court battle last year.

Absentee landslide might lead to machine reform    Story Here  Archive
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004
by Michael Mayo in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel 04 August 2004
In honor of the approaching Aug. 31 primary and Nov. 2 presidential election, a South Florida voter's soliloquy: To absentee or not to absentee, that is the question.

Touch-screens dealt a blow    Story Here  Archive
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004
BY GARY FINEOUT for Miami Herald 05 August 2004
TALLAHASSEE - While state election officials publicly proclaim their faith in touch-screen voting machines in the midst of criticism, their own reports may have been the first to highlight potential shortcomings in the technology more than 18 months ago.

Vote scanners draw interest    Story Here  Archive
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004
By CHARLES RABIN for the Miami Herald 05 August 2004
On the same day political activists gathered at Miami-Dade County Hall to demand more oversight during elections, Mayor Alex Penelas met with county leaders to discuss studying a possible switch to optical scanning machines for the Nov. 2 election.

Voting machines a huge gamble on Election Day    Story Here  Archive
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004
OP-ED Miami Herald 05 August 2004
Within the mad cacophony of a Vegas casino corny music, flashing lights, rows of slots singing: cha-ching cha-ching cha-ching bettors enjoy protections not yet extended to voters. Regulators have their priorities for safeguarding the integrity of computer terminals that cater to the masses. Those priorities aren't about voting.

Still hanging    Story Here  Archive
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004
Op-ED in the Charlotte Observer 05 August 2004
In the land of the hanging chads, public confidence in the voting system remains shaky and for good reason.
The doubters aren't just Democrats. While Gov. Jeb Bush was reassuring Floridians that the state's new touch-screen voting machines are reliable, his own state Republican Party recently gave his assertions a vote of no confidence.


Touch-screen voting machines in Miami-Dade concern Penelas    Story Here  Archive
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004
By David C?zares for the South Florida Sun Sentinel 05 August 2004
Less than three years after Miami-Dade County spent $24.5 million on 7,200 touch-screen voting machines, Mayor Alex Penelas wants to know whether elections officials should scrap them.

Radio ads criticize paperless balloting    Story Here  Archive
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004
By Jerry Cornfield for the Everett Herald 05 August 2004
EVERETT - The latest concoction from a millionaire founder of the Ben & Jerry's ice-cream empire is a bit too sour for Bob Terwilliger's taste.
Its flavor is politics, 100 percent pure, no sugar added.


Voting system will get faster, officials say    Story Here  Archive
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004
by CRicks in the Kalamazoo Gazette 05 August 2004
Tuesday's primary-election process may have been slow in yielding final results, but nobody was denied the right to vote because of it, Kalamazoo County's chief election official said.

Democrats: give voters choice of using electronic, paper ballots    Story Here  Archive
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004
by DAVID ROYSE for AP in the San Jose Mercury News 05 August 2004
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Two Democratic lawmakers wrote to Gov. Jeb Bush Thursday asking him to order 15 counties that use touchscreen voting to give voters a choice in November between the electronic machines and those that use paper ballots.

PFAWF urges "Paper or Plastic" Vote Option in Florida    Story Here  Archive
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004
Press Release in Common Dreams 05 August 2004
WASHINGTON - August 5 - Ralph G. Neas, President of People For the American Way Foundation (PFAWF), wrote to Gov. Jeb Bush today urging him to offer Floridians the option of voting on paper ballots that can be recounted instead of the problem-plagued electronic voting machines being used in 15 Florida counties.

New way to vote on Tuesday    Story Here  Archive
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004
By RICHARD VALENTY Colorado Daily 05 August 2004
The Aug. 10 party primary elections might not draw the full suspense and passion that the Nov. 2 general election will generate, but the Democratic and Republican tilts for the party's U.S. Senate nomination will be of national interest, and the overall race for Boulder County Commissioner District 1 could be all but formally decided Tuesday night.

Paper ballot request draws supervisor's ire    Story Here  Archive
Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004
By Dara Kam in the Palm Beach Post 05 August 2004
TALLAHASSEE — Sen. Ron Klein urged Gov. Jeb Bush on Thursday to give voters in the 15 counties that use touch-screen voting machines the option of casting paper absentee ballots, a move that Palm Beach County's top elections official rejected as "the most absurd thing I've heard yet."

Poll finds scattered vote errors, widespread cynicism    Story Here  Archive
Published:Wednesday, August 4, 2004
By THOMAS HARGROVE and GUIDO H. STEMPEL III for Scripps Howard News Service 04 August 2004
With malfunctioning voting machines and confusion over registration plaguing millions of Americans, most voters believe the ballot-counting problems discovered in Florida four years ago can actually occur nationwide, a new poll finds.
Slightly more than 6 percent of participants in a survey reported problems at the polls at some point since they began voting, a figure that would translate to nearly 7 million voters nationwide based on turnout in the presidential election four years ago.


Press Journal editorial: Indian River residents clamor for pre-election vote, paper ballots    Story Here  Archive
Published:Wednesday, August 4, 2004
Editorial in the Florida Press Journal 04 August 2004
Indian River County residents just can't wait to vote. As of Tuesday, nearly 4,000 absentee ballots were ordered for the Aug. 31 primary — more than 10 times the number requested in 2002. Early voting runs Aug. 16-30 and is expected to draw record turnouts at the election office in Vero Beach and at Sebastian City Hall.

Johnson County Placing Pressure on Software Company    Story Here  Archive
Published:Wednesday, August 4, 2004
By Joy Dumandan for WISH-TV Indianapolis 04 August 2004
The Johnson County Election Board is placing pressure on Election Systems & Software (ES&S). That's the company responsible for certifying software for its voting machines.

Election Task Force to Release Recommendations    Story Here  Archive
Published:Wednesday, August 4, 2004
by WISH-TV Indianapolis 04 August 2004
(Indianapolis) Marion County should anticipate some changes in the voting process this fall. They're being brought about by the ballot shortages and software problems seen last spring.

Miami-Dade activists call for election oversight    Story Here  Archive
Published:Wednesday, August 4, 2004
by Charles Rabin in the Miami Herald 04 August 2004
Fortified by Miami-Dade Commission Chairwoman Barbara Carey-Shuler's call for voting reform, political activists gathered at County Hall Wednesday to urge voter turnout and demand proper oversight during upcoming elections.

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