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AccuPoll Receives Certification for Electronic Voting System in Louisiana Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, April 19, 2005 TUSTIN, Calif.(BUSINESS WIRE)April 19, 2005AccuPoll Inc. (OTCBB:ACUP), a developer of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems, today announced the receipt of state certification for its voting system in the state of Louisiana. The designation marks yet another state where AccuPoll's electronic voting system featuring a voter verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) is now available. AccuPoll has also been extended an invitation to participate in public demonstrations of certified voting systems across the state April 26-28. |
Culver announces funds for new county voting machines (Pottawattamie Co., IA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Pottawattamie County will receive about $470,260 for new voting machines and other improvements for the election process from the Help America Vote Act, Secretary of State Chet Culver said Monday. |
Ballot cover invention may help the blind vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, April 19, 2005 It looks like a cardboard T-shirt. Since Nov. 16, it's been known as U.S. Patent No. 6,817,516 B2. Madison County voters won't think of the two-sided ballot sleeve as a new invention because they've been using it for four years to protect the secrecy of their computer ballots. |
Unacceptable UniLect (Pennsylvania) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, April 19, 2005 UniLect is trying to reverse the decertification and will be in Harrisburg on April 22, 2005 (to demonstrate that they can now hide undervotes). We need to put a stop to the use of this system if the Commonwealth doesn't abide by its valid decision to decertify. |
OUR OPINION: COUNTIES SHOULD SWITCH TO OPTICAL SCAN VOTING Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, April 18, 2005 Face it, the touch-screen electronic voting machines used by Broward and Miami-Dade counties are more trouble than they're worth, which is a lot. Miami-Dade paid $24.5 million for the iVotronic system. But both counties should face the hard truth and replace the electronic machines with optical scanners. The latter provide what the former cannot: a paper trail, voter-error prevention and more reassurance that all votes will be counted. |
Federal elections hampered by machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, April 18, 2005 WASHINGTON - Federal elections are still hampered by inadequate voting machines, outdated registration and poor training of poll workers despite a 2002 law passed to improve the system, witnesses told a special commission led by former President Carter and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III. |
Capitol Watch: Move the primary vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, April 18, 2005 Considering the hubbub over last November's election, lawmakers' failure to enact all the needed substantial election reform legislation is a stunning case of dereliction of duty. |
E-voting May Face Recall in Florida County Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, April 18, 2005 APRIL 18, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Ongoing technical glitches are prompting election officials in Florida's Miami-Dade County to consider scrapping a $25 million investment in electronic voting systems. |
Local elections board to vote yet again on new voting-machine system Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, April 18, 2005 The Athens County Board of Elections soon is expected to vote a third time on new voting machines for the county, and voting machines could be in place in time for the November election. |
Carter and Baker agree major parties want wide access, voter integrity in elections Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, April 18, 2005 WASHINGTON - Former President Carter and one-time Secretary of State James A. Baker on Monday rejected the notion that Democrats and Republicans have different interests in who gets to vote. |
Costs force counties to look at voting precincts Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, April 17, 2005 Some counties may reduce the number of voting precincts in response to the federal mandate that will force them to buy new voting equipment. |
A Vote for Paper Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, April 17, 2005 For several years, state legislators have been wooed, wined and dined by politically connected lobbyists working for the nation's largest voting-machine manufacturers. |
Back to the e-voting drawing board? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, April 17, 2005 The question on the minds of those in the electronic-voting machine know in Augusta County in recent days has been ... will we still be able to use the UniLect Patriot e-voting machines that were supposed to be ready for the November state elections in the wake of what has been transpiring in Pennsylvania? |
End Ohio's voting machine debate Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 16, 2005 Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell's decision Thursday to let counties opt for electronic touch-screen voting machines - along with his negotiation that netted the state a lowest-in-the-nation price for counties to buy the devices - is a welcome move to ease Ohio's continuing controversy over vote technology. |
Touch-screen voting machines to get retest Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 16, 2005 Voters in Beaver, Greene and Mercer counties might be able to use touch-screen machines in next month's primary after all. |
County looking at new voting equipment to hold 2006 'big ballot' Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 16, 2005 Shelby County is about to spend nearly $5 million on new voting machines to handle a huge August 2006 ballot. |
Voting machines get second look Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 16, 2005 WAYNESBURG ? The state outlawed the use of Greene County's electronic voting machines last week, but on Friday, the Department of State decided to give them another look. |
State deal to give Lucas County free touch-screen vote machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 15, 2005 Touch-screen voting machines appear to be on their way to Lucas County at no cost to county coffers. |
Pa. gives 2nd chance to maker of banned voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 15, 2005 HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania officials, who banned the UniLect touchscreen voting system last week, said Friday they will give the company another chance to prove the device is reliable. |
Counties to get choices on voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 15, 2005 COLUMBUS ? Electronic voting machines re-emerged Thursday as an option for local elections boards that must approve new systems in time for next year?s May primary. |
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