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Political Passion Counts ? But Your Vote for Bush Might Not! Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 2, 2004 Groups like the San Francisco-based Verified Voting Foundation and www.VerifiedVoting.org say that electronic voting equipment is vulnerable to programming errors, equipment malfunctions and malevolent tampering, with no way to detect malfeasance or deliberate rigging either before or after a vote. |
Call for UN observers in US poll Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 2, 2004 SEVERAL members of the US House of Representatives have requested the United Nations to send observers to monitor the November 2 US presidential election to avoid a contentious vote as in 2000, when the outcome was decided by Florida. |
Touch and Go Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 2, 2004 Also in the March primary, blind voter and computer scientist Noel Runyan, who lives of Campbell, was a casualty of Santa Clara County's Sequoia DRE system. Theoretically, when Runyan donned the earphones connected to the DRE, a recorded voice would lead him through the ballot. That didn't happen. "The speech function didn't work at all," says Runyan. "We tried it on several machines, and they didn't work either." He finally gave up and asked his wife to cast his ballot for him. |
County argues vote case in court Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 2, 2004 LOS ANGELES Stung by an unfavorable tentative ruling, attorneys argued in Los Angeles federal court Friday that Riverside County should not have to follow tough, new state guidelines on using touch-screen voting machines in November. |
Protection for Md. Voters Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 The June 18 editorial "At-Risk Voters" asserted that because Maryland is not adopting a paper trail for electronic balloting it is unconcerned about voter confidence. Let me add some perspective: |
E-ballots worrisome to those who value accuracy, fairness Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 No commodity in a democracy is more precious than the right to vote. That's why many county election officials looked silly as they spent the springtime loudly protesting and then filing lawsuits over the decision of California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley to ban touch-screen voting machines in four counties and impose several conditions on all other counties using them. |
Ballot snafu inquiry opens Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 A committee investigating mistakes during the May 4 primary heard Wednesday of broken ballot printers, outraged voters and shocked poll workers in testimony that brought more details to light about the failures. |
New election equipment brings new problems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 LAKE CONROE Dan Wallach, a Rice University Department of Computer Science assistant professor, is a known skeptic of Direct Recording Electronic voting systems, or DREs. |
A new way to vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 New electronic voting machines slated to replace the punch-card voting system in the general election this November will be available for perusing at a few locations in the county during July. |
N.C. weighs ballot model Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 Four years after the much-disputed presidential election recount in Florida, there are no technology standards in place to guarantee that fiasco won't be repeated. As a result, North Carolina is no closer to an easy, electronic way for voters across the entire state to cast their ballots. The new goal: the 2006 election. |
Journalist to File Federal Lawsuits Against Use of Voting Machines and Absentee Voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 PHILADELPHIA, July 1 /PRNewswire/ On Friday, July 2, two federal Complaints will be filed by freelance journalist Lynn Landes challenging the use of voting machines and absentee voting in elections for political office. The Complaints will be filed against MARGARET TARTAGLIONE, Chair of the City Commissioners of Philadelphia, PEDRO A. CORTES, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and JOHN ASHCROFT, the Attorney General of the United States, at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The Complaints are an unprecedented legal challenge to the use of voting machines and absentee voting. Landes specializes in voting technology and democracy issues. She is acting as her own attorney. |
Electronic ballots in N.C.: Maybe next election Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 Although North Carolina is no closer to an easy, electronic way for voters statewide to cast their ballots than it was in the last presidential election, the state does have strong safeguards, officials say. Some states have rushed to buy new equipment that they don't know how to operate, experts have told Congress. But North Carolina put a moratorium on certifying any new voting equipment until technology concerns are resolved. |
States change policies after SHNS points out problems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 Top election officials in Delaware, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas have vowed they will - for the first time - report the number of ballots cast for every county in their states during the upcoming presidential election. Counting ballots is critical to determining if inaccurate voting machines or improper counting procedures are causing Florida-like tabulating problems. |
AccuPoll to acquire NTS Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 Touch-screen voting machine maker AccuPoll Inc. plans to buy NTS Data Services Corp., a provider of voter registration applications and election support services. "AccuPoll's proposed acquisition of NTS will create a full-service election company," said Frank Wiebe, president of AccuPoll, in a statement. |
U.S. district judge refuses to lift state ban on electronic voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 SACRAMENTO - A federal judge in Los Angeles upheld a partial state ban Thursday on electronic voting in the Nov. 2 election, denying a request by advocates for the disabled. In a tentative ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper declined to overturn an April 30 order by Secretary of State Kevin Shelley to ban electronic voting in 14 counties. Four counties and advocates for the disabled sought a temporary restraining order to block Shelley's order. |
Voting machine scrutiny urged Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 30, 2004 Election officials need to have voting machines analyzed, provide more thorough training for election workers and carefully monitor the process to ensure the security of votes in the November election, a report released yesterday recommended. |
Diebold and the dutiful Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 30, 2004 From the electioneering you've seen so far this year, you might not think anyone's testing for logic or accuracy. But in fact four guys spent last week doing just that on about 400 of Columbus' touch-screen voting machines. One guy worked for Columbus' elections office. The other three worked for voting-machine maker Diebold, which is pronounced "dee-bold," like in a soap opera ("Diebold and the Beautiful"). |
Voting-gear check rejected Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 30, 2004 TALLAHASSEE - The state's top election officials dismissed a request Tuesday from an election watchdog group to conduct an independent review of the state's touch-screen voting systems. The Miami Dade Election Reform Coalition urged the governor to conduct audits of the electronic touch-screen voting machines used in 15 Florida counties, and do random audits of the optical scan machines used in the other 52 counties, to determine if they are working correctly during the Aug. 31 primary. |
Group wants check of state's voting systems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 30, 2004 A Miami group is asking Gov. Jeb Bush to order a statewide, independent audit of voting systems, following a county employee's discovery of ballot-counting irregularities there. |
Groups seek study of August primary to gauge voting systems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, June 30, 2004 TALLAHASSEE · A coalition of groups Tuesday called on Gov. Jeb Bush to order a statewide study of the August primary election to make sure voting systems work for November's presidential vote. Florida is a key battleground state, and problems have been found with a type of electronic voting machines used by 11 of the state's 67 counties, including some in Central and South Florida. |
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