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Thoughts on Paper Story Here Archive |
PREDICTIONS THAT touch-screen voting machines would enable massive fraud on Election Day seem to have gone the way of Y2K. Still, watchdog groups are continuing to report machine failures, including screen malfunctions that voters said hindered attempts to record their choices accurately. That is the haunting question still not addressed in most states using touch-screens: Without any paper records of how votes were cast, who will ever know how accurate the machine tallies were? |
Samuelson campaign manager alleges votes were also undercounted Story Here Archive |
After Mecklenburg County election officials announced they believed they had overcounted the number of ballots in the hotly contested congressional race, campaign staff believes some votes were undercounted in the recount. |
Democrats' leader decries voting glitches Story Here Archive |
SHARON, Pa. ? Mercer County Republicans aren't really concerned about glitches with county voting machines that caused problems in Tuesday's election. |
Paper trail tested for e-vote devices Story Here Archive |
During the two weeks leading up to the presidential election, one of the country's most sophisticated polling places was in one of the most unlikely locations: a parking lot behind the Mirage Hotel on Las Vegas' famous neon Strip. |
County resets software, recounts 81,000 ballots Story Here Archive |
The Thurston County elections staff recounted an estimated 81,000 ballots first tallied Election Day after learning that computer software wasn't set up properly for the first count. |
Computer Loses More Than 4,000 Early Votes Story Here Archive |
Jacksonville, N.C. More than 4,500 Carteret County votes have been lost because officials believed a computer that stored ballots electronically could hold more data than it did. |
State readies for touch-screen voting Story Here Archive |
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The state will use $5 million in federal money to buy touch-screen voting machines that will be in place for disabled voters in 2006. |
Fanello Wants Audit Into the New Election Equipment Story Here Archive |
The President of the Vanderburgh County Commission says she won't spend another dime on election equipment until there's an audit on its performance. |
Countinghouse Blues: Too many votes Story Here Archive |
Sarpy County election officials are trying to figure out how they ended up with more votes than voters in the general election. As many as 10,000 extra votes have been tallied and candidates are still waiting for corrected totals. |
Election problems due to a software glitch Story Here Archive |
A systems software glitch in Craven County's electronic voting equipment is being blamed for a vote miscount that, when corrected, changed the outcome of at least one race in Tuesday's election. |
Stop the buck: Management, not system, at heart of election fiasco Story Here Archive |
More than two days after most voters in Boulder County marked their ballots, there was understandable outrage, intense water-cooler conversation and general amazement that, for all intents and purposes, their votes meant nothing. |
Gambling vote glitch mars tally Story Here Archive |
Broward County corrected a computer glitch Thursday that had miscounted thousands of absentee votes, instantly turning a slot-machine measure from loser to winner and reinforcing concerns about the accuracy of electronic election returns. |
L.A. County May Stick With InkaVote Ballots Story Here Archive |
Los Angeles County may continue to use its temporary InkaVote balloting system for several more elections, despite complaints from some voters that the system is difficult to use and evidence that it's less accurate than touch-screen machines. |
Software flaw found in Florida vote machines Story Here Archive |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. ? It had to happen. Things were just going too smoothly. Early Thursday, as Broward County elections officials wrapped up after a long day of canvassing votes, something unusual caught their eye. Tallies should go up as more votes are counted. That's simple math. But in some races, the numbers had gone ... down. |
Ohio Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Votes Story Here Archive |
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said. |
Glitch Found in Ohio Counting Story Here Archive |
An electronic voting machine in hotly contested Ohio added 3,893 votes to President Bush's tally in a suburban Columbus precinct, even though there are just 800 voters there. |
Winner so far: Confusion Story Here Archive |
RALEIGH For a few brief hours on Wednesday, N.C. Agriculture Commissioner Britt Cobb saw his Tuesday election loss turn to a win. By Thursday, he was losing again. |
San Francisco Finds Fix For Election Day Tech Snafu Story Here Archive |
San Francisco, which is no stranger to election snafus, has figured out the software problem that delayed some of the city's local election results, an official said Friday. While the city didn't know when the problem would be fixed, a spokesman said the Elections Department expected to easily meet the state's Nov. 30 deadline for certifying election results. Election Systems and Software Inc., the Omaha, Neb., company that sold the city the vote-counting system, said the problem stemmed from a safeguard in the software that converts optical scans of ballot results into data that the computer system uses to calculate winners. The conversion software shutdown when the amount of data entering the system had reached a level set by the vendor. |
Lancaster County counts by hand after malfunction Story Here Archive |
LANCASTER, S.C. - Huddled in the basement of the Lancaster County Administration Building, election officials late Wednesday were manually tallying results of about 1,600 absentee ballots. |
Broward Vote-Counting Blunder Changes Amendment Result Story Here Archive |
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. The Broward County Elections Department has egg on its face today after a computer glitch misreported a key amendment race, according to WPLG-TV in Miami. |
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