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Wrong Time for an E-Vote Glitch Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 13, 2004 It was simultaneously an uh-oh moment and an ah-ha moment. When Sequoia Voting Systems demonstrated its new paper-trail electronic voting system for state Senate staffers in California last week, the company representative got a surprise when the paper trail failed to record votes that testers cast on the machine. |
The new voting systems are in Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, August 13, 2004 Nye County Clerk Sam Merlino and interested viewers conducted an informal test Wednesday. The subject was the new voting machines to be used, for the first time in the nation's history and only in Nevada, during the 2004 election. The new voter machines, designed by Sequoia Voting Systems include a printer component attached to a touch-screen and are the first ever voter-verifiable machines with a paper audit trail. |
Electronic voting has yet to fulfill promise Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 12, 2004 DALLAS - The technology revolution that was supposed to modernize voting booths by the November elections is turning out to be, well, not so revolutionary. Disputes over their security and delays in federal funding have slowed the upgrade of U.S. voting machines, promised after the Florida vote-counting debacle in the last presidential election. |
Several touch-screen machines show glitches Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 12, 2004 INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Four touch-screen voting machines had to be re-programmed in a routine test Wednesday because of minor copying glitches, county Elections Supervisor Kay Clem said. |
Voting machines 'perfect' in tests Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 12, 2004 TUART — Randomly ed voting machines perfectly recorded every test vote cast Wednesday. However, local Democrats and American Civil Liberties Union representatives remain skeptical of the county's exclusive reliance on the touch-screen machines in the upcoming elections. |
Three more California counties approved for electronic voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 12, 2004 OAKLAND, Calif. - Three more California counties have been approved for electronic voting in the November election, bringing to 11 the number of counties cleared to cast digital ballots with touch-screen machines. |
Test confirms vote machine accuracy Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 12, 2004 The accuracy of Palm Beach County’s touch-screen voting machines was put to the test on Wednesday – literally. In a bunker-style garage adjacent to the Supervisor of Elections office on Military Trail, 2 percent of the county’s 4,270 “voting units” whirred, clicked and chirped as they tabulated mock election results. On the sidelines, poll watchers watched, skeptics pondered and election officials mused. But when it was all over, they pronounced the apparatus A-OK. |
Voting equipment takes a test Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 12, 2004 Trying to reassure voters that all systems are "go" for the Aug.31 primaries, state and local officials began publicly testing election equipment in seven Florida counties Wednesday. |
Elections officials evaluate electronic voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 12, 2004 PALM BEACH COUNTY - Palm Beach County elections officials Wednesday publicly tested a sample of the thousands of electronic voting machines they'll deploy for the upcoming primary and Election Day. |
State approves limited e-voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 12, 2004 California approved three final counties Wednesday for electronic voting in November, freeing a total of 11 counties to use touch-screen machines. |
E-voting clears final hurdle Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, August 12, 2004 California approved three final counties Wednesday for electronic voting in November, freeing a total of 11 counties to use touch-screen machines. |
Every vote counts, except in Florida Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 11, 2004 No matter who wins the November presidential election, cross your fingers that the outcome isn’t close. Given the latest election news coming out of the Sunshine State, that may be the only way to avoid catastrophe. |
ACLU sues state over closed meetings of voting examiners Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 11, 2004 AUSTIN - The American Civil Liberties Union sued state officials Wednesday in an attempt to force Texas' voting system examiners to hold their meetings in public. |
PBC gets glimpse of election scrutiny Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 11, 2004 A routine test of some of Palm Beach County's voting machines on Wednesday offered a glimpse of the election scrutiny Florida can expect between now and the Nov. 2 election. |
Voting rule could cost county $88,000 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 11, 2004 ANNAPOLIS A new voting rule approved Tuesday that is intended to provide the appearance of tighter voting security could result in lengthy delays in getting results on election night or in added costs for county governments. |
County betting on 'close to fool-proof' electronic voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 11, 2004 SAN BERNARDINO - Scott Konopasek is pretty sure of himself, and he's sure of his machines, too, which is probably a good thing. Konopasek is the county registrar of voters, and his machines are the ones San Bernardino County residents will be using to vote in November. |
Solutions still missing Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 11, 2004 The ghost of elections past haunts Palm Beach County. As the November presidential contest nears, Democrats complain that not enough has been done to chase those ghosts away. Ill-conceived, last-minute suggestions by outsiders, such as state Sen. Ron Klein, cannot rebuild the system in time or recapture lost public confidence. Entrenched insiders, such as Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore, have had years to reinstill public confidence but have failed. |
Brent Batten: Voting machines pass early test Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, August 11, 2004 The bad news is, errors showed up in the test of touch-screen voting machines conducted Tuesday. The good news is, they were of the human kind. |
ES&S Agrees to Johnson County Election Board Demands Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, August 10, 2004 (Johnson Cty) Voters in Johnson County are assured one thing come November they will get to vote. The question that remains up in the air is exactly how your vote will be cast. |
High-tech voting may not be ready Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, August 10, 2004 At least one member of the Johnson County Election Board has lost faith that touch-screen voting machines will be ready by an Aug. 20 deadline. Election Systems & Software has until that date to certify the machines before election officials scrap the $2.4 million investment in favor of paper ballots and optical scan machines for the Nov. 2 general election. |
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