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Counted votes at the core of democracy Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, February 6, 2005 The story that garnered attention was that Amendment 2 was not only dead, but also buried, having avoided resurrection by a recount. The story that did not garner much attention is what the recount revealed about election administration more generally. |
Adding E-Voting Printers Could Cost $23 Million, Counties Say Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, February 6, 2005 Local election officials in California say they may have to pay between $18 million and $23 million to comply with a state law requiring printed records of ballots cast on electronic voting machines. |
County chooses new vote devices Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, February 5, 2005 BUCYRUS Crawford County voting precincts should be equipped with a Diebold-brand computerized voting system in time for the November polls, the four-member board of elections recommended Friday. |
You're Not Invited - Pennsylvania to conduct Secret 'Re-examination' of Defective Voting System in Harrisburg Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, February 5, 2005 (PRWEB) February 5, 2005 On Tuesday February 15th 2005 at 9:00 AM in Room #303 North Office Building. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. There will be a 're-examination', by the Commonwealth's Secretary of State's office of the Unilect Patriot paperless voting system. |
Election results are in: Absentee ballots lose Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, February 5, 2005 Absentee voting is not the panacea the political parties claim it is. In fact, absentee voting is more prone to mistakes than touch-screen voting. But party operatives in Florida don't want voters to know that. Exploiting paranoia over touch-screen voting, they urged voters to cast ballots by mail last year to increase party turnout. When far too many voters take advantage of a system meant for far fewer, it causes more problems, not less. |
Hamilton Co. pleads for time on voting machines, to no avail Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, February 5, 2005 Hamilton County election officials asked Friday for more time and more options to pick a new voting system - a request that Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell immediately rejected. |
News From The U.S. Election Reform Movement Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, February 5, 2005 The Invisible War: As the Nation Lolls Into a Second Bush Presidency, Many Statisticians Are Still Fighting Over Whether He Won the Job or Stole It |
Optical scan vote coming locally Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, February 5, 2005 BELMONT COUNTY'S Election Board will meet on Tuesday to iron out the details of the new optical scan voting system that will be changing years of voting practices in this county as well as others in Ohio. |
Optical scan vote coming locally Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, February 5, 2005 BELMONT COUNTY'S Election Board will meet on Tuesday to iron out the details of the new optical scan voting system that will be changing years of voting practices in this county as well as others in Ohio. |
News From The U.S. Election Reform Movement Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 4, 2005 It wasn't enough for Mr. DeGregorio that we wrote an entire, fully-sourced article about him, in which our readership had every opportunity to compare our analysis of his actions with reporting of same in other news outlets. It wasn't enough that we've meticulously tracked the progress of the election reform movement in the United States over the past sixty days and have found little evidence that the primary body charged with furthering this cause the U.S. Election Assistance Commission has been of "assistance" to the movement in any manner whatsoever. |
Local election officials may HAVA problem Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 4, 2005 State elections officials say the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) will cover all costs except storage for precinct-count optical scan voting machines. |
Portune seeks more vote options Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 4, 2005 Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune sent a letter to Secretary of State Ken Blackwell Thursday asking him to reconsider his directive requiring the state's 88 counties to use one of two vendors' optical scan voting systems in Ohio. |
Elections officials seek to continue partisan activities Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 4, 2005 WASHINGTON - Elections officials agreed Friday to send a message to voters that they conduct fair and impartial elections despite any partisan ties, prompted by proposed legislation to ban the officials from political campaigning. |
Election reform is urgent Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 4, 2005 The irregularities, machine failures, paperless ballots, disenfranchisement, lack of transparency and other issues in the 2000 and 2004 elections underscore an electoral crisis that needs to be fixed right away. Americans are losing confidence in the integrity of our electoral system, and with good reason. |
March ballots pass first test Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 4, 2005 Ballots for the March 8 special City Council election are scheduled to start going out in the mail Feb. 11, and local election officials tested ballots printed by system vendor Hart InterCivic Thursday in efforts to prevent counting problems that plagued the Nov. 2 general election. |
State to check counties' election systems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 4, 2005 The Washington Secretary of State's Office is launching a statewide audit of county election offices to make sure that local election systems are secure and are using only state-approved software and voting machines. |
Elections official rips into Shelley Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 4, 2005 California's chief county elections official says Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's administration has created a "full-blown crisis" that threatens the state's compliance with federal law and its ability to conduct the 2006 elections. |
Voter fraud group gears up Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 4, 2005 Voter fraud and abuse of absentee ballots are targets of the Democracy Defense League. |
Butler Co. asks AG to block optical-scanner systems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 4, 2005 HAMILTON - Butler County elections officials say changing to optical-scanner voting systems would be a waste of money - and they're asking the Ohio Attorney General to block the Secretary of State from forcing local elections boards into using that pencil-and-paper method. |
11,310 ballots cast out Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 4, 2005 RALEIGH - The N.C. Supreme Court ruled Friday that provisional ballots cast by voters outside their home precinct are illegal, throwing out 11,310 ballots and potentially overturning a statewide vote and local races across the state. |
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