Panel urges touch-screens' certification    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 By FRITZ WENZEL for the Toledo Blade COLUMBUS - A panel that advises Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell on the viability of new voting equipment recommended yesterday that Mr. Blackwell certify Diebold Election Systems Inc.'s newest version of touch-screen voting machine for use in Ohio.

Voting machines point forward    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 Douglas Co. Record Courier Staff Reports By the time we get to cast our first ballot of the Primary Election, the punch ballot we've used for so long will be illegal. On Sept. 1, those ballots will no longer be used in Nevada. That's kind of scary when you think that the new voting system is not yet functional.

Federal Court Rules in Favor of Paper Trail Reform in E-Voting    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 NewsWire Report LOS ANGELES, July 7 (AScribe Newswire) A federal judge ruled yesterday that California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's requirements for additional security on electronic voting machines do not violate federal or state law. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, California Voter Foundation, VerifiedVoting.org, and Voters Unite! submitted a friend-of-the-court brief and a sur-reply in support of Secretary Shelley. The case is Benavidez v. Shelley.

E-voting security: looking good on paper?    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 By Thomas C Greene for The Register (UK) A couple of weeks ago, the US League of Women Voters incurred the wrath of touch-screen ballot skeptics by indicating its acceptance of DRE (Direct Recording Electronic) ballot machines with no voter-verifiable paper trail.

Groups challenges rule on touchscreen recounts    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP) A group is suing the state to reverse a rule that tells elections supervisors they don't have to include touchscreen ballots in manual recounts.

Your vote is at risk in some states: here's why    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 By THOMAS HARGROVE and MICHAEL COLLINS for Scripps Howard Call them the dirty dozen of democracy. Election officials in 12 states did not report how many ballots were cast when they certified 26,349,619 votes for president four years ago, making it impossible to know how many votes were lost because of inaccurate counting machines or other tabulation errors. Most are still unprepared to check for missing votes this November, increasing the odds that America will face another uncertain presidential election. Experts warn that the mistakes painfully discovered in Florida in 2000 could be repeated.

State approves electronic voting for Napa's Nov. election    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 By CHRIS TRIBBEY for NapaNews.com Napa County's electronic voting system was recertified Tuesday by California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, ending months of speculation about whether the technology would be available for the November election.

Lawsuit Challenges Florida Ballot Recount Rules    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 By Jane Sutton for Reuters MIAMI (Reuters) - Voting rights groups sued Florida election administrators on Wednesday to overturn a rule that prohibits manual recounting of ballots cast with touch-screen machines, a lawsuit with echoes of the state's disputed 2000 presidential election voting.

Lots of questions, few clear answers on e-voting    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 By William Jackson for Government Computer News Computer security experts and election officials debating the merits of paperless voting before a House committee today presented widely differing opinions about the security of electronic voting.

Federal court upholds Calif. e-voting ban    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 News Story by Dan Verton for ComputerWorld JULY 07, 2004  - A federal judge today upheld California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's April 30 directive that decertified touch-screen voting machines and withheld future certification until vendors of those systems could meet specific security requirements, including voter-verifiable paper audit trails (VVPAT).

Reed announces safeguards for electronic voting    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 By GENE JOHNSON for the AP SEATTLE Secretary of State Sam Reed announced a series of measures to improve trust in electronic voting machines Wednesday, including the requirement that by 2006 each produce a paper trail that will allow voters to verify their ballots.

Push for safer electronic voting bolstered by court decision    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 by Jim Wasserman for AP SACRAMENTO - Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's push for safer electronic voting appears to be gaining momentum with a fresh victory in federal court and new agreements from counties with touch-screen machines to make extra security arrangements.

Experts warn of potential voting machine problems    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 By SUMANA CHATTERJEE for Knight Ridder WASHINGTON - Just four months before November's elections, vulnerabilities persist in electronic voting machines used nationwide, a group of computer experts told House lawmakers on Wednesday.

State: 1,600 ex-felons eligible to vote    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 BY DEBBIE CENZIPER AND ERIKA BOLSTAD for the Miami Herald The Florida Division of Elections did an about-face Wednesday, acknowledging that 1,600 former felons whose voting rights had been restored should be removed from its list of potentially ineligible voters. The Herald reported last week that the 1,600 were among more than 2,100 felons who remained on the state's list even though they had regained the right to vote.

Report highlights need for added security in use of new electronic voting machines    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, July 6, 2004 By CAMILLE GERWIN for Beaufort Gazette Although Beaufort County has not yet decided whether it will abandon its voting machines to follow the state's plan to move to a uniform electronic system, two studies released this week recommended increased security precautions to ensure the reliability of electronic voting.

Keeping elections clean in November    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, July 6, 2004 Opinion from the Kalamazoo Gazette Although it sounds like a publicity stunt by those still upset about the way the presidential election was conducted and counted in Florida in 2000, it is true that a number of people are concerned about the integrity of the Nov. 2 presidential election.

Company Fixes Voting Machine Problem    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, July 6, 2004 Channel 10 Miami-Dade The rush is on to make sure South Florida electronic voting machines will do the job in November. Earlier this year, a problem was found with the way machines in 11 counties, including Broward and Miami-Dade counties, provide a log of voting results.

Disabled voters to cast ballots with new system    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, July 6, 2004 By TOM REEDY / Denton Record-Chronicle Denton County is shopping for touch-screen voting machines to help disabled voters in order to comply with the Help America Vote Act. But instead of machines that also count the votes, county Elections Administrator Don Alexander said he's looking at one that simply marks the paper ballots the county uses now.

Vote, But Verify: Electronic machines need a paper trail    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, July 5, 2004 Opinion of the Dallas Morning News There's just one thing wrong with electronic voting machines: People don't trust them to accurately record their votes. Voters reasonably fear fraud – a padding of the totals or a manipulation of the software so that a vote for Smith automatically becomes a vote for Jones. So it's equally reasonable that voters would want to verify their votes through the use of paper receipts that they could check and that could be used in recounts.

Focus on voter education to avoid election mistakes    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, July 5, 2004 Opinion from the Central Illinois Pantagraph Election officials have had nearly four years to guard against a repeat of the ballot confusion and voter consternation of November 2000 that wound up reaching all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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