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As Blackwell Says, Ohio?s in 2004 was a National Model Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 24, 2005 Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell finally testified ? something he had refused to do in the Moss v. Bush Ohio election challenge before the State Supreme Court and refused to do in Washington, D.C. His testimony proved so contentious that at one point Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, D-OH, told him to ?haul butt? if he was unwilling to answer questions about irregularities in the 2004 election. |
Voting reforms set to be proposed Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 24, 2005 A blue-ribbon panel convened by the state's top elections official plans to call for a series of reforms in the voting process today. |
Standardized voting machines coming to all Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 24, 2005 Voters across Saginaw County all will soon cast their ballots in the same fashion, thanks to Help America Vote Act funds. |
Jimmy Carter to Chair Election Reform Commission Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 24, 2005 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Jimmy Carter will lead a bipartisan commission to examine problems with the U.S. election system, American University's Center for Democracy and Election Management said on Thursday. |
Voter fraud probed in state Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 24, 2005 Hundreds of Coloradans are being investigated for voter fraud in the November election. |
Too many questions about touch-screens Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 24, 2005 Forty years ago, in a moment that showed America at its finest, President Lyndon B. Johnson reacted to "Bloody Sunday" by calling for the "toughest voting rights act" that could be devised, one with "no ifs, ands or buts." |
Hundreds in Colorado investigated for voter fraud Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 24, 2005 DENVER ? Hundreds of Coloradans are under investigation for alleged voting violations in the November election, including casting multiple ballots, forging signatures or voting when they were ineligible, county officials say. |
Election reform plan headed for full Senate Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 23, 2005 A package of election reforms that would make it easier to vote won approval of a Senate committee Tuesday. |
New York State Legislature's Plan to Help America Vote May Hurt NYC Residents Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 23, 2005 Only a few weeks ago, New York State risked losing over $200 million in federal aid because legislators from the State Senate and Assembly just couldn?t compromise. |
Wetzel Commissioners Discuss Voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 23, 2005 NEW MARTINSVILLE - Wetzel County Clerk Carol Haught approached commissioners on Tuesday regarding the purchase of an optical scan voting system on the recommendation of Secretary of State Betty Ireland. |
Green Party Presidential Candidate Joins ?Divestiture for Democracy? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 22, 2005 WASHINGTON ? Green Party Presidential candidate David Cobb has endorsed the Velvet Revolution?s ?Divestiture for Democracy? campaign that seeks to assure accurate and fair voting procedures in future elections. |
Blackwell questioned about Ohio's election performance Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 22, 2005 COLUMBUS - The battle over the 2004 presidential election raged anew yesterday as a congressional committee questioned Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell over what happened on Election Day and his decisions leading up to that day. |
City Clerk Defends Over-Marking of Mayoral Ballots Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 22, 2005 City Clerk Frank Martinez told the Los Angeles City Council on Monday that he acted with justifiable prudence on election night, inspecting every ballot by hand and over-marking ballots where the voter's ink mark might not have been read by vote-counting machines. |
Volusia in fight on touch screens Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 22, 2005 DAYTONA BEACH As a blind voter, Doug Hall has to rely on someone else to mark his ballot on Election Day. |
Hearing on election turns heated Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 22, 2005 Columbus - A fiesty Secretary of State Ken Blackwell defended his handling of the presidential election at a sometimes heated congressional field hearing Monday. |
Lawmaker asks more time on voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, March 22, 2005 COLUMBUS - As state lawmakers remain divided over what Ohio's new voting machines should look like, one House member Monday asked federal officials to extend the deadline for when those machines must be in place |
Paperless voting pushed Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 21, 2005 DELAND ? When the political oven of the 2000 presidential recount was at its hottest, Volusia County elections officials stayed relatively cool, scouring paper ballots with marked ovals. |
Blackwell to testify before committee Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 21, 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio - The state's chief elections official has a message for those who say Ohio's Nov. 2 election was fraught with unpreparedness, mistakes and fraud: Take a closer look. |
Up for the Count Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 21, 2005 MARYLAND VOTERS will never know for sure whether their election choices last year were recorded correctly and the same uncertainty could haunt them next year if lawmakers again fail to address a serious defect in the touch-screen voting machines used throughout the state. When functioning properly and the state elections administrator, Linda H. Lamone, insists that nearly all the machines did work last time they are said to be as accurate as they are efficient. But without a paper trail showing each vote cast, who's to know? And what about the machines that did freeze or had mechanical problems? Voters should not have to take it on faith; yet as it stands, there is no way to conduct a solid recount or audit. |
St. Louis County lags behind in shift from punch card voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, March 21, 2005 Blame it on Florida. The ghost of that state's punch card-ballot mess in the 2000 presidential election is still haunting election officials in Missouri and Illinois - especially those in the states' urban areas, which mainly still use punch card ballots. |
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