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Election 2004: Quarter of voters will use unreliable machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 One out of every four voters in November will face the same election machines — some more than 40 years old — and unreliable counting procedures that botched the presidential race in Florida four years ago. |
Election 2004: S.C. county illustrates voting difficulties Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 SUMTER, S.C. — An unraveled paper clip in the hands of Sumter County Elections Commissioner Lucinda Macias became a vital tool for preserving democracy in South Carolina. |
Voting-software test begins Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 State elections officials in Miami-Dade County on Tuesday began testing new electronic voting machine software designed to correct a glitch in the equipment's ability to audit election results. |
County closer to optical scan voting system Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 Unhappy they have to tap county funds to make up for a political impasse on the elections board, Lucas County commissioners nevertheless agreed yesterday to let the board seek bids for leasing 386 optical-scan voting machines for the Nov. 2 general election. |
Panel urges touch-screens' certification Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 COLUMBUS - A panel that advises Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell on the viability of new voting equipment recommended yesterday that Mr. Blackwell certify Diebold Election Systems Inc.'s newest version of touch-screen voting machine for use in Ohio. |
Federal Court Rules in Favor of Paper Trail Reform in E-Voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 LOS ANGELES, July 7 (AScribe Newswire) A federal judge ruled yesterday that California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's requirements for additional security on electronic voting machines do not violate federal or state law. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, California Voter Foundation, VerifiedVoting.org, and Voters Unite! submitted a friend-of-the-court brief and a sur-reply in support of Secretary Shelley. The case is Benavidez v. Shelley. |
E-voting security: looking good on paper? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 A couple of weeks ago, the US League of Women Voters incurred the wrath of touch-screen ballot skeptics by indicating its acceptance of DRE (Direct Recording Electronic) ballot machines with no voter-verifiable paper trail. |
Lawsuit Challenges Florida Ballot Recount Rules Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 MIAMI (Reuters) - Voting rights groups sued Florida election administrators on Wednesday to overturn a rule that prohibits manual recounting of ballots cast with touch-screen machines, a lawsuit with echoes of the state's disputed 2000 presidential election voting. |
Lots of questions, few clear answers on e-voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 Computer security experts and election officials debating the merits of paperless voting before a House committee today presented widely differing opinions about the security of electronic voting. |
Federal court upholds Calif. e-voting ban Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 JULY 07, 2004 - A federal judge today upheld California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's April 30 directive that decertified touch-screen voting machines and withheld future certification until vendors of those systems could meet specific security requirements, including voter-verifiable paper audit trails (VVPAT). |
Reed announces safeguards for electronic voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 SEATTLE Secretary of State Sam Reed announced a series of measures to improve trust in electronic voting machines Wednesday, including the requirement that by 2006 each produce a paper trail that will allow voters to verify their ballots. |
Push for safer electronic voting bolstered by court decision Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 SACRAMENTO - Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's push for safer electronic voting appears to be gaining momentum with a fresh victory in federal court and new agreements from counties with touch-screen machines to make extra security arrangements. |
Experts warn of potential voting machine problems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 WASHINGTON - Just four months before November's elections, vulnerabilities persist in electronic voting machines used nationwide, a group of computer experts told House lawmakers on Wednesday. |
State: 1,600 ex-felons eligible to vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 The Florida Division of Elections did an about-face Wednesday, acknowledging that 1,600 former felons whose voting rights had been restored should be removed from its list of potentially ineligible voters. The Herald reported last week that the 1,600 were among more than 2,100 felons who remained on the state's list even though they had regained the right to vote. |
Company Fixes Voting Machine Problem Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 6, 2004 The rush is on to make sure South Florida electronic voting machines will do the job in November. Earlier this year, a problem was found with the way machines in 11 counties, including Broward and Miami-Dade counties, provide a log of voting results. |
Report highlights need for added security in use of new electronic voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 6, 2004 Although Beaufort County has not yet decided whether it will abandon its voting machines to follow the state's plan to move to a uniform electronic system, two studies released this week recommended increased security precautions to ensure the reliability of electronic voting. |
Keeping elections clean in November Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 6, 2004 Although it sounds like a publicity stunt by those still upset about the way the presidential election was conducted and counted in Florida in 2000, it is true that a number of people are concerned about the integrity of the Nov. 2 presidential election. |
Disabled voters to cast ballots with new system Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, July 6, 2004 Denton County is shopping for touch-screen voting machines to help disabled voters in order to comply with the Help America Vote Act. But instead of machines that also count the votes, county Elections Administrator Don Alexander said he's looking at one that simply marks the paper ballots the county uses now. |
A Wine Region's Future Is Centered on 2 Rivals Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 5, 2004 These are uncertain times in California's Napa County, a pastoral region of fertile hills that produces some of the world's best cabernet and, recently, accusations of voting fraud. |
Vote, But Verify: Electronic machines need a paper trail Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, July 5, 2004 There's just one thing wrong with electronic voting machines: People don't trust them to accurately record their votes. Voters reasonably fear fraud – a padding of the totals or a manipulation of the software so that a vote for Smith automatically becomes a vote for Jones. So it's equally reasonable that voters would want to verify their votes through the use of paper receipts that they could check and that could be used in recounts. |
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