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King County election chief under fire Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, April 5, 2005 The top election official in King County should resign, two Republican members of the County Council said yesterday in reaction to the latest blunder to come to light in the troubled election department. |
Touch-screen vote machines to get test Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, April 5, 2005 The machines arrived Monday. The curious, the outraged and the Volusia County Council can come today. |
Some polling places might be combined Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, April 5, 2005 Some major changes in elections are scheduled to start next year. That was one of the messages that about 40 Houston County township officials heard at their annual meeting on March 28. County auditor Pete Johnson spoke about the voting changes for about half an hour at the Four Seasons Community Center. |
Elections director on the hot seat Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, April 5, 2005 The discovery of 93 absentee ballots that were overlooked in the 2004 election has prompted calls for county elections chief Dean Logan to resign and for a federal probe of his operations. |
Paperless voting meets fans, foes Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, April 5, 2005 DELAND Mike Thompson brought a big yellow protest sign to the Department of Elections on Tuesday to show his opposition to paperless voting. |
Brief honeymoon, but then it's time to get cracking Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, April 4, 2005 The applause that welcomed Bruce McPherson after he was sworn in as California's new secretary of state was especially warm. |
Jersey County voters to use punch card ballots for last time Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, April 4, 2005 JERSEYVILLE Tuesday?s election will mark the last time Jersey County voters pick up a stylus and punch out a piece of cardstock to cast their ballots. |
Counties Plan For Optical Scan Voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, April 4, 2005 Local counties in West Virginia report that they are making plans to implement new optical scan voting systems, but elections officials say they nevertheless will miss their punchcards and lever machines. |
Elections directors will meet in Carteret Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 2, 2005 With the assortment of vote-counting irregularities reported in North Carolina's 2004 General Election and lawmakers' consideration of election reform to avoid recurrences, the 240 state elections directors meeting in Carteret County this month have a clear conference agenda. |
Election package approved Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 2, 2005 Tempers flew and voices cracked Friday as House Democrats narrowly beat a deadline for pushing out of a key committee a package of bills that would change election procedures. |
Election bills await action Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 2, 2005 Dozens of election bills were introduced in the Washington Legislature this session, but only nine remain. |
87 valid, uncounted ballots found Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 2, 2005 Elections workers in King County have discovered 87 valid absentee ballots still in their envelopes that were mistakenly left out of the vote-counting in the November election, officials said yesterday. |
The Photo ID Movement as White Privilege Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, April 2, 2005 "This is her first time to vote!" exclaimed her grandmother as the young woman stepped toward me to sign the poll list, voter card in hand. Grandmother and granddaughter were beaming. They were both so proud. Right then and there all my training fell to the floor. |
Miami-Dade County election chief quits amid criticism Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 1, 2005 MIAMI - Miami-Dade Elections Supervisor Constance Kaplan, a veteran Chicago election official who was recruited to help the county erase the embarrassing memories of the 2000 presidential election, has resigned amid revelations of voting problems in six elections. |
E-voting Corruption Record Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 1, 2005 FLORIDA?S 2000 nightmare over punch-card ballots caused America to stampede toward purely electronic voting. But this snowballing trend raises two new concerns: vote-stealing could be easier in digitized elections, and several computer balloting firms have shady pasts. |
Dade election chief Kaplan resigns Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 1, 2005 Miami-Dade Elections Supervisor Constance Kaplan resigned Thursday amid increasing pressure from county officials who had grown frustrated with a succession of problems that included several hundred votes being lost in the most recent election. |
Analysis points to election `corruption' Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, April 1, 2005 There's a one-in-959,000 chance that exit polls could have been so wrong in predicting the outcome of the 2004 presidential election, according to a statistical analysis released Thursday. |
Bedford County to vote in a new way Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 31, 2005 Voters throughout Bedford County will use touch screen machines in this year?s November elections, after using lever machines for the last time in the upcoming June primaries. |
Miami-Dade elections supervisor quits amid pressure over voting snafus Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 31, 2005 Miami-Dade Elections Department Supervisor Constance Kaplan resigned Thursday after County Manager George Burgess raised public questions about voting problems in six recent local elections. |
A new level of voting machine, minus the lever Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 31, 2005 There's something about the "ca-chunk" when you pull the voting machine's red lever to the left to let those politicians know what you really think. |
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