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'Daily Voting News' For September 05, 2008 Story Here |
| Published:Friday, September 5, 2008 A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
Will every vote count in Palm Beach County? (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 5, 2008 Undervotes, overvotes. Confusion over vote totals. An election in question, 10 days later, hanging on a fraction of the ballots cast. Does any of this sound sickeningly familiar? It should, because Palm Beach County's search for 3,400 missing ballots in a tight judge's race has all the feel of the 2000 presidential election debacle, without the national spotlight. But could that be far behind? |
Recount continues with a review of voter registration logs (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 5, 2008 Palm Beach County elections officials are reviewing voter registration logs this morning from the Aug. 26 primary, hoping to get a better count of how many people voted. The tedious review of the logs, which people sign at their precincts before they actually vote, is part of an effort to account for 3,478 missing ballots revealed following a recount of the primary results. |
Fla. officials search for missing primary ballots Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 5, 2008 Palm Beach County election officials launched a massive search Friday for about 2,500 missing ballots from last week's primary. |
Palm Beach Voting Snafu (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 5, 2008 The day began with 3478 missing ballots in Palm Beach County. The ballots were cast August 26th and have come up missing as the state ordered a recount in a close judicial race. As Mike Vasilinda tells us, now the state is considering sending monitors to Palm Beach for the November election. |
State vows 'something new' to ensure fair Nov. election in Palm Beach County (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 5, 2008 TALLAHASSEE — Florida Secretary of State Ken Browning said today that the missing ballots in Palm Beach County were an "administrative issue" and signaled the state would be intimately involved in operating the Nov. 4 election in the county. "We're going to work with Dr. Anderson and see to it that he has a good general election," Browning said. |
Ballot Problems Persist; Close Race Still Unresolved (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 5, 2008 Friday there was yet another new figure for the number of missing ballots. Canvassing board members learned a machine count of the ballots Thursday night turned up nearly 3,000 fewer ballots than the original vote total after the election almost 500 fewer than a hand count earlier in the day. |
Palm Beach County election mess passed on to the courts (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 5, 2008 Another Palm Beach County election mess, including thousands of missing ballots, stumbled toward a new venue Friday with county officials leaving it to the courts to decide a disputed judicial race. |
'Daily Voting News' For September 04, 2008 Story Here |
| Published:Thursday, September 4, 2008 A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
Broward County elections officials audit primary results (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 4, 2008 About 32 employees from the Broward Supervisor of Elections Office then conducted a three-hour manual audit of results from 16 of the race's 779 precincts, or about 2 percent. Of the 16 chosen precincts — picked by drawing pieces of paper from a box — nine mirrored machine results while the other seven resembled original results by 95 percent or more. |
Workers spend day counting ballots, not votes (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 4, 2008 More than 30 workers today were sifting through thousands of ballots at the tabulation center off Belvedere Road, desperate to come closer to a conclusion in the race between Circuit Judge Richard Wennet and challenger William Abramson. But unlike last week, the workers weren't recounting votes in the controversial race. This time around, they were merely counting the number of ballots. |
Not even McCarty can get answers (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 4, 2008 Palm Beach County Commissioner Mary McCarty was in her own element Thursday. As one of two commissioners assigned to the county canvassing board, Commissioner McCarty led the grilling of elections officials, including reticent information technology chief Jeff Darter. |
Palm Beach County starts counting election ballots by hand (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 4, 2008 Teams of Palm Beach County workers this morning began counting thousands of ballots in hopes of accounting for all 102,523 that officials believe were cast in last week's election. Shortly after midnight, county election staffers said they had found 2,700 of the 3,478 ballots that somehow disappeared between the Aug. 26 primary and a weekend recount. |
Missing Ballots Mess Gets Murkier (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 4, 2008 There is now a new number of missing ballots. And a cloud of uncertainty remains over a close judge's race and all voting in Palm Beach County, for that matter. At the start of the day Thursday, we thought most of several thousand missing ballots had been located. That's what staff at Palm Beach County's elections office staff announced Wednesday night. But late Thursday afternoon, the election canvassing board heard something very different and troubling |
Ballot Debacle Continues, 2500 Ballots Still Missing (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 4, 2008 The election mystery continues tonight. Palm beach County officials say 2500 ballots still cannot be found from last week's judges race. The frustration is growing and more candidates are coming forward calling for a recount now in other races. |
Missing ballots case may go to court (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 4, 2008 Just when Palm Beach County election officials thought they had solved the mystery of the missing ballots it blew up in their faces again. A welcome report that 2,700 of the 3,478 missing ballots had been found on Thursday was replaced with the grim news that workers had recovered only 957 ballots. |
Hunt for missing ballots widens in Palm Beach County (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 4, 2008 A hunt will launch at daybreak today for roughly 2,500 missing Palm Beach County ballots from the Aug. 26 primary, the latest turn in an election plagued by counting problems. The search for ballots will involve what Assistant County Administrator Brad Merriman describes as an armada of county workers, including off-duty firefighters and sheriff's deputies, who will go to voting locations in hopes of finding missing ballots. |
'Daily Voting News' For September 03, 2008 Story Here |
| Published:Wednesday, September 3, 2008 A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
Election count errors under review (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, September 3, 2008 Palm Beach County officials are struggling to clear up confusion about another local election, and this time it involves the first widespread use of new optical-scan voting machines. |
Despite problems with vote totals, Indian River County Canvassing Board approves primary election results (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, September 3, 2008 VERO BEACH — Indian River County's three-member canvassing board approved the Aug. 26 primary results on Tuesday — but those numbers are absent the more than 5,000 votes that had to be removed from the election night totals due to the ballots in 40 precincts being counted twice. |
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