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E-ballot software wins vote of confidence Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 19, 2004 The companies will team to integrate the technology into AVS's WINvote touch-screen voting terminal and will test the device during the November election. Rather than allow for a centralized re-count, the system gives voters the ability to check their vote online by matching a coded number on a receipt with the same number in a database. |
Opposition Grows to Paperless Voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 19, 2004 Voters took to the streets in 19 states last week to protest paperless electronic voting machines. In the coast-to-coast "Computer Ate My Vote" rallies, citizens showed what activists say could become widespread dissent against nonverifiable ballots if this year's presidential election becomes another close call. |
Electronic voting still a live issue Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 19, 2004 When Georgia voters cast their touch-screen, electronic ballots in Tuesday's primary elections, they will be at the center of a nationwide debate. |
In Our View: Worrywarts and electronic voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 19, 2004 The only thing that was certain after the 2000 presidential election was that punch-card ballots had to go. The turmoil over confusing butterfly ballots and punch cards with chads that didn't completely break away from the card spurred federal legislation to move the nation to computerized voting machines. Touch-screen technology, which we've seen in grocery stores, fast-food restaurants, gas stations and now airports should end the possibility of another presidential election being thrown into doubt because of a piece of paper. |
Voting machine upgrade scrapped Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 19, 2004 The town has abandoned a plan to replace its mechanical lever-operated voting machines with optical scanners for the November election because of a misunderstanding over the types of equipment allowed under state law and who would pay. |
Nelson: Vote machines in doubt Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 19, 2004 TALLAHASSEE - U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, seizing upon recent news reports questioning the accuracy of touch-screen voting machines, joined those asking for an independent statewide review to make sure the machines will work properly on Election Day. |
Kerry Building Legal Network for Vote Fights Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, July 18, 2004 Mindful of the election problems in Florida four years ago, aides to Senator John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, say his campaign is putting together a far more intricate set of legal safeguards than any presidential candidate before him to monitor the election. |
Glitch in voting machines gets fixed Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, July 18, 2004 DADE CITY - Supervisor of Elections Kurt Browning envisions an assembly line of sorts. A couple of employees will place some touch screen voting machines on the table. Other workers will download an d program into those units. Once the five-minute download finishes, the machines will go back into storage, and new ones will move onto the table. |
The manual on recounts Election procedures aren't what they used to be Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, July 18, 2004 Question: What do you think the term "manual recount" means in 2004? If you flash back to Bush vs. Gore and answer, "An incredibly laborious, contentious, but thorough review of every single ballot," you're wrong. |
State set to approve less-flawed e-voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, July 18, 2004 California elections officials are poised Monday to approve a new Diebold electronic-voting system for Alameda, Los Angeles and Plumas counties that still leaves some published security holes unplugged and the fix for a troubling vote-counting problem unproven. |
Touch to Vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, July 18, 2004 July 18, 2004 — When American voters line up at the polls this November, more of them than ever will be using touch-screen, electronic voting: A new study shows 50 million votes will be cast this way, with 28 states having at least one district using the method. |
Addresses in Warren still pose election problems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, July 18, 2004 WARRENTON - The Warren County elections office appears to have cleared up its database troubles - at least for the moment - but board members expressed anxiety about dealing with voters who do not know their precinct. |
E-vote pact not signed Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 17, 2004 San Bernardino County officials are still haggling with the Secretary of State's office over an agreement allowing the use of electronic voting machines in November. The Board of Supervisors agreed to settle its lawsuit against Secretary of State Kevin Shelley on Tuesday, ending a battle that began in April when Shelley decertified all touch screen voting machines in California. |
Primary candidate sues county over recount Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 17, 2004 Lawyers for Linda Soubirous, a candidate for county supervisor who nearly forced incumbent Bob Buster to face a runoff, filed suit in Riverside Superior Court late Friday to make the county provide information denied her in a recount of the March 2 primary. |
State recertifies county's voting system Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 17, 2004 Secretary of State Kevin Shelley on Friday recertified Riverside County's voting system, clearing the way for more than 4,000 ATM-like, touch-screen machines to be used in the Nov. 2 general election. |
Electronic voting machines nixed Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 17, 2004 COLUMBUS Lorain County and two other counties that were considering a switch to electronic voting machines for the November election will not be allowed to do so because of concerns about the machines' security, Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell said yesterday. |
Diebold voting machines on hold in Ohio Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 17, 2004 COLUMBUS — Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell wanted all of Ohio’s 88 counties to be using electronic voting machines for this year’s presidential election. He foresaw Ohio as the nation’s leader in the use of the machines. |
Blackwell blocks use of new voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 17, 2004 Columbus- Diebold Inc., the embattled Ohio-based voting-machine maker, was blocked Friday from putting its touch-screen machines in Ohio counties in November. |
Blackwell nixes touch-screens for Nov. 2 election Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, July 17, 2004 COLUMBUS - Even if the Lucas County Board of Elections had been able to agree on voting machines, it still would have been forced to make other plans for the Nov. 2 election. |
Vote Fiasco Brewing? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 South Carolina seems to be headed for a no-win situation on the credibility of the statewide vote count in the Nov. 2 election. If the state Election Commission gets clearance to put electronic touch-screen voting machines in the S.C. counties that don't already have them, those machines won't create a paper record of the voting for recount or vote-verification purposes. |
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