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Lawmakers: Reconsider punch cards Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, March 5, 2004 State lawmakers studying voting-machine security might consider taking Ohio's plan back to square one, with some suggesting that the state erase three years of planning and stick with punch cards. |
Voters turned away by glitches: 200 Alameda County precincts encounter problems Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, March 5, 2004 California's transition to electronic voting hit glitches on election day as voters were delayed and in some cases turned away from polling places in Alameda and San Diego counties because of malfunctioning machines. |
Voting Machine Foul-Ups Delay Local Count Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, March 5, 2004 Berkeley voters ran into a number of glitches Tuesday when the machines that clear voter cards after they are used malfunctioned throughout the day, forcing several precincts to move to paper ballots which quickly ran out and had to be re-supplied by the county. |
Digital Democracy? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 The excruciatingly narrow presidential contest in Florida four years ago left the nation eager to adopt a more reliable voting system one that wouldn't systematically disenfranchise swaths of voters or raise suspicions of tampering. The goal was to eliminate the crude machines, puzzling butterfly ballots, and hanging chads that cost thousands of voters their choice in 2000. |
E-Voting Field Test Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 High-tech voting machines got yet another trial run on Super Tuesday this week. The results, according to critics? There's still a lot of work to be done to make electronic voting secure and glitch-free. |
Unlikely Allies: Blust, Williamson Share Voting Concerns Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 Politically, Republican County Commissioner David Blust and Democratic Party activist Pam Williamson couldn’t be farther apart. Blust and Williamson hold very different views on a number of issues and rarely agree. But one of the mandates of the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 has the two of them seeing eye to eye. Neither favors the federal requirement for changing from the familiar punch-card system to a “direct-recording electronic system” — a computerized voting machine. |
Sheila Lennon: One person's experience as an election judge Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 My experience as an Election Judge in Baltimore County: Let's follow up on yesterday's item that led with Aviel Rubin, one of the authors of the Johns Hopkins study Analysis of an Electronic Voting System, serving as an election judge in Lutherville, Md. Here's Rubin's account of his day. It's all interesting, but here are the relevant revelations from the front lines: |
Security reviews, push for paper tallies, funding postpone use of Diebold's machines in Ohio Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 Issues delay E-vote rollout It all seemed so simple. After weeks of figuring out which chads were pregnant and which chads were hanging, why wouldn't it? |
Blackwell Plans To Lead Public Information Effort's Media Tour Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell could be featured in part of a $15.3 million public information campaign to explain to Ohio voters how new voting systems work. A proposal that the state Controlling Board will consider Monday describes the voter education campaign as focus groups, phone surveys, television spots and a "campaign-style media tour" featuring Blackwell. |
Johnson County: Election Worker Fired Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 Election officials in Johnson County are now demanding answers from a voting machine company at the heart of a recent I-Team investigation. |
Taxpayers Association blasts voter PR campaign Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 The Ohio Taxpayers Association on Thursday called the secretary of state's campaign to educate Ohioans about new voting machines a "total waste of time and money." |
Printers Wanted for Voting Machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 Though Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox said the state’s 26,000 elections voting machines performed without any problems on Super Tuesday earlier this week, some lawmakers Thursday said the machines may nonetheless be vulnerable to fraud and wanted printed receipts to serve as proof to the computer tabulation. |
Election officials say problems minimal Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 County officials said Wednesday that they do not think significant numbers of people were deprived of their right to vote Tuesday when early computer problems forced poll workers to turn some voters away in San Diego County's first election with electronic ballots. |
Ballot card problems delayed election returns Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 Walker County election officials worked until after midnight, following Tuesday’s election, to rectify problems tallying results. |
Electronic voting devices lack federal OK and disrupt vote for thousands Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 None of the devices used Tuesday to generate digital ballots for millions of California voters have undergone federal testing and certification. |
Glitches in voting machines examined Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 State and federal officials said yesterday they will examine the problems with the county's new electronic voting system, while a county supervisor and the ACLU called for investigations into the matter. |
Voters like new machines; failure delays results Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 Election officials had hoped to have the final results tabulated no more than two hours after the polls closed at 8 p.m. But a computer problem prevented them from downloading the precinct results electronically, delaying the tallies for hours. |
ALAMEDA COUNTY: Computer Glitches, human error, paper ballot shortage slow count Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 Glitches plagued a new computer designed to speed voting in Alameda County on Tuesday, forcing voters in many locations to cast their ballots on paper instead of electronically. Some sites ran out of paper ballots before the breakdown could be fixed. |
Registrar says electronic vote went smoothly Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, March 4, 2004 A day after Tuesday's landmark election, initiating a new age of electronic voting, the Solano County Registrar of Voters Office called the process "one of the smoothest elections ever conducted in Solano County." |
Primary Concerns Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, March 3, 2004 The early returns are in and no voter fraud has been discovered in the wake of Maryland's first statewide use of touch-screen electronic voting machines, which took place during the Democratic primary on March 2. That's a good thing...right? |
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