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Brown County tries out new voting technology on Aug. 2 (Brown Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 27, 2005 GEORGETOWN ? In accordance with the Help America Vote Act, the Brown County Board of Elections is trying out a new voting machine during the special election Aug. 2. |
Disabled lose again in battle over voting (Volusia Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 26, 2005 DELAND Advocates for the blind suffered another legal setback Monday: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit refused to order Volusia County to immediately purchase disability-accessible touch-screen voting machines for the fall elections. |
Commission approves vote centers (Mesa Co., CO) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 26, 2005 It?s time for Mesa County to think outside the ballot box when it comes to the way people vote on Election Day, county leaders said Monday. |
ERIC CLARK: Our election machines are ed with care (MIssissippi) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Next year, nearly every voter in Mississippi will cast ballots on new touch-screen voting machines. These will replace out-of-date machines and greatly improve the accuracy and integrity of every election in Mississippi. |
Decision to Forgo Uniform Voting Machines (New York) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 26, 2005 The decision by the Legislature to forego a uniform statewide standard for voting machinery, in favor of local decision-making by county boards of elections in the legislation passed in the final days of the legislative session has been sharply criticized by Sen. Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan) |
Muscatine County gets grant for new voting machines (Muscatine Co., IA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 25, 2005 MUSCATINE, Iowa n Secretary of State Chet Culver met with Muscatine County officials Saturday and delivered a check for $185,905 to offset most of the county's costs for the purchase of new voting machines. |
County still holding out for cheaper voting machine option (Utah Co., UT) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 25, 2005 Utah County officials are waiting for an August meeting with Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert to talk about election equipment, but not idly. |
Imagine voting at local mall, uptown hotel (North Carolina) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 25, 2005 RALEIGH - Forget lining up before or after work on Election Day. Instead, imagine popping over to a mall, a shopping center or an uptown hotel ballroom and voting during lunch rather than trekking back to a polling place near your home. |
Stay the course (Volusia Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 23, 2005 Volusia County officials defending ballot integrity scored a victory Thursday when a federal judge refused to order them to buy controversial touch-screen voting machines for disabled voters in time for this fall's elections |
Local officials voice strong support for current voting machines (DeSoto Co., MS) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 23, 2005 HERNANDO ? Officials in DeSoto County are anxious to meet with Secretary of State Eric Clark to voice their strong opposition to a plan that calls for adopting touch screen voting machines in Mississippi. |
Disabled advocates fight vote ruling (Volusia Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 23, 2005 DELAND A federal judge misread a state law and incorrectly applied previous court rulings when he refused to order disability-accessible touch-screen voting in Volusia County this fall, attorneys for the National Federation of the Blind and others said Friday. |
Secretaries of state, civil-rights groups meet on historic anniversary Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 22, 2005 On an historic March day 40 years ago, an angry but peaceful group of civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. marched across a Selma, Alabama, bridge toward a new era in American democracy. As police beat them back with billy clubs, the protesters stood their ground in a pitched battle for a most basic human liberty?the right to vote. Their message rang loud and clear in the annals of political power. Within five days, President Lyndon Johnson told Congress that he would soon bring them a voting rights bill. On August 6, Johnson signed the landmark Voting Rights Act?believed by many to be the most effective civil liberties law ever. |
State to unveil new touch-screen voting machines (Oklahoma) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 22, 2005 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Oklahomans will find new touch-screen voting machines when they go to vote next year. |
Voting via touch screen approved (Monterey Co., CA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 22, 2005 Wholesale changes are in store for the Monterey County elections office. |
Judge blocks disabled-voters' lawsuit (Volusia Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 22, 2005 A federal judge refused Thursday to force Volusia County to provide touch-screen voting machines for the disabled by October, a move hailed as a victory for supporters of paper ballots. |
U.S. judge backs Volusia in voting-machine case (Volusia Co., FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 22, 2005 DeLAND In a victory for Volusia County and foes of paperless voting, a federal judge Thursday denied blind advocates' demand for disability-accessible, touch-screen voting devices in Volusia for the Oct. 11 city elections. |
Paper trail required under bill (North Carolina) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 22, 2005 A Senate committee Thursday recommended new voting machine standards that would require a paper record of each ballot cast and require sample hand counts to ensure accurate totals. |
Voting equipment purchase postponed (Val Verde Co., TX) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 22, 2005 On the advice of the county clerk, who oversees Val Verde County elections, commissioners court voted Thursday to postpone a decision on the purchase of equipment aimed at making voting easier for the disabled |
Bucks making sure its votes count (Bucks Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 New federal and state laws stipulate replacement voting machines must be ordered by the end of the year, in place and ready for use by next year's May primary. Since the switch from the decades-old manual machines to new electronic voting machines is not voluntary, county commissioners are forced to explore the issue further and make a change soon. |
Is Your Vote Your Vote? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 21, 2005 On June 1, 2005, I received a consumer alert from www.Blackboxvoting.org. It indicated that when the Diebold optical scan voting machines in Leon County, Fla., were tested, they were "hacked" (altered) in three different ways. The complete report is at http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVreport.pdf. |
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