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Presidential Candidates To Demand Ohio Recount Story Here Archive | ||||||
David Cobb and Michael Badnarik, the 2004 Green and Libertarian presidential candidates, today announced their joint intent to secure a recount of presidential ballots cast in Ohio. | ||||||
Latest Conspiracy Theory Kerry Won Hits the Ether Story Here Archive | ||||||
MIAMI, Nov. 10 The e-mail subject lines couldn't be any bigger and bolder: "Another Stolen Election," "Presidential election was hacked," "Ohio Fraud." | ||||||
Democrats Cry Foul, Urge Vote Inquiry Story Here Archive | ||||||
TAMPA - It's more a ripple than a tidal wave, but in a growing stream of e-mail and Internet chat, John Kerry partisans are suggesting that last week's election was hacked, distorted, stolen or somehow marred by fraud. | ||||||
E-Vote Firm Agrees to Pay State Story Here Archive | ||||||
Touch-screen voting machine manufacturer Diebold Election Systems has agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the Texas-based company of misleading local and state officials in order to sell software and voting machines to several California counties. | ||||||
Election workers sue over computer system Story Here Archive | ||||||
A group of county election officials in New Jersey are suing their state counterparts to block a centralized state voter registration computer system, which the county officials contend would illegally strip them of duties while risking statewide breakdowns and delays. | ||||||
GAO investigation of e-voting problems requested Story Here Archive | ||||||
Half-a-dozen Democratic congressmen have asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate reports of voting irregularities in the Nov. 2 election, many of them involving electronic touch-screen voting machines. | ||||||
Losing by 335,000 in N.H., Nader Demands a Recount Story Here Archive | ||||||
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, who lost by about 335,000 votes in New Hampshire, has asked the state for a recount. | ||||||
Printer played role in Boulder voting woes Story Here Archive | ||||||
BOULDER - The head of a Denver company that printed ballots for Boulder County's troubled election acknowledged Tuesday he used a subcontractor who might have been responsible for the problems. | ||||||
Help America Vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
AFTER THE 2000 election debacle, Congress took steps to improve the voting system, but it acted slowly, stingily and sloppily. Of the $4 billion for new voting technology authorized by the Help America Vote Act of 2002, Congress provided only $1.5 billion, and much of that came late. While the law required that voters who for some reason aren't on the rolls be permitted to cast provisional ballots, it didn't specify how such ballots should be handled. That turned out not to be an issue this year only because President Bush won by a comfortable enough margin to make the provisional ballots irrelevant. | ||||||
Counties miss vote reporting deadline Story Here Archive | ||||||
For the first time in state history, North Carolina didn't have official election results on time because several counties were still counting when the deadline passed at midnight Tuesday, state officials said. | ||||||
Most provisional ballots rejected; voters often in wrong precinct Story Here Archive | ||||||
The vast majority of provisional ballots ? voters' last chance to have their voices heard ? were rejected, a review of the presidential election results from across the state found. | ||||||
Judge eyed on ballots Story Here Archive | ||||||
A Republican judge in one voting precinct has some explaining to do, Bernalillo County Clerk Mary Herrera said this morning. As the weary clerk's staff continued to examine provisional ballots, attention gathered on one batch in which the disqualified ballots all were Democrat and those that qualified were Republican, Herrera said | ||||||
Voting system failures Story Here Archive | ||||||
Election officials, voting-machine manufacturers and others are smugly congratulating themselves that this year's presidential election did not wind up as a repeat of the mess that occurred in 2000. And the public is buying in: In a poll for the Associated Press, 54% said the results made them more confident in the fairness of the election system. | ||||||
Judge Rejects ACLU Suit Over Counting Late Absentees Story Here Archive | ||||||
MIAMI Election officials will not be forced to count absentee ballots delivered after 7 p.m. on Election Day, regardless of what problems caused late mailings, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union. | ||||||
Election conspiracy theories persist Story Here Archive | ||||||
WASHINGTON ? Planning for President Bush's second term is well under way, but some disappointed supporters of Democratic Sen. John Kerry are not giving up ? at least not yet. | ||||||
Third of provisional ballots thrown out Story Here Archive | ||||||
DURHAM About one of every three provisional ballots cast in Durham County were not counted this year, according to local elections officials. | ||||||
Consider paper trail, but don't trash system Story Here Archive | ||||||
Incoming Supervisor of Elections Arthur Anderson promised to provide a paper trail to people worried about losing their votes in cyberspace. To do that, he suggested last week, the county might scrap its $14 million electronic voting system for optical scan ballots, like those used by absentee voters. | ||||||
Editorial: Supervisor of Elections offices Story Here Archive | ||||||
We're as glad as anyone else that voting went smoothly for the most part in Florida last Tuesday. We surely did not need another election-buster on the magnitude of the butterfly ballots and hanging chads of the presidential election of 2000. We say that not for the smarmy jokes and ridicule heaped upon our state. | ||||||
E-voting companies file code Story Here Archive | ||||||
In the weeks leading up to the Nov. 2 election, officials at five electronic voting machine companies filed digital signature information for many of their software products with the National Software Reference Library, a repository maintained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. | ||||||
Bush should push election reforms Story Here Archive | ||||||
Spencer Overton, a law professor at George Washington University, is author of the forthcoming book "The Ghost of Jim Crow: The Unfinished Struggle for Voting Rights in America." | ||||||
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