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February 14, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Shelley asks registrars' support ELECTION: The secretary of state asks registrars to help ensure the accuracy of touch-screen voting. By TAMMY McCOY / The Press-Enterprise Despite an outcry from election officials in several counties, the California secretary of state will stick with a plan he contends will help ensure that touch-screen voting is reliable and secure. Secretary of State Kevin Shelley on Friday responded to criticisms and concerns over his directive, and asked county registrars to act as a team. |
February 14, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Punch-card ballots that prompted 2000 election recount still in use BY MARTIN MERZER for Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) - It is Election Night 2004. The presidential tally stalls in a near-tie. All eyes turn to a pivotal state, a rich source of electoral votes, where election supervisors scrutinize ballots. Punch-card ballots. Yes, punch-card ballots, the much maligned voting system - dimpled chad, hanging chad, pregnant chad - that symbolized Florida's botched election four years ago, politically paralyzed the nation for 37 days and altered the course of electoral history. |
February 13, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| County officials challenge state over voting machines ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS FACE SECURITY TESTS By Elise Ackerman for the Mercury News Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters Jesse Durazo and nine other California elections officials have challenged Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's authority to require security measures to safeguard the integrity of electronic voting systems in next month's presidential primary. |
February 13, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Rose: Worries about vote fraud By John David Rose for the Carolina Morning News Think About It In defense of electronic voting, Tom Hatfield, Beaufort County chairman of the Election Commission, pooh-poohed the potential for fraud. Let's hope he hasn't bought those machines yet. |
February 13, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Opponents of change a threat to electronic voting By Mike Langberg for the Mercury News Fear of change is a universal human emotion, and it often erupts when new technology comes along to alter an established and comfortable way of doing things. |
February 13, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Florida should have ballot printouts OUR OPINION: PAPER RECORD OF VOTES WILL ENSURE ELECTION INTEGRITY Those dreaded hanging chads and overvotes will be missing when Florida voters again cast their vote for president and other offices in November, and good riddance. But something will be missing that should have been included in the new electronic voting systems installed throughout Florida: a paper printout of each ballot cast. |
February 13, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Fulton County Voters learn how to use new voting equipment By DEB FOWLKS for Eagle Publications Newspapers The weather may have been less than perfect, but that didn’t stop Fulton County Clerk employees, Brenda Smick and Marge Grafford, from braving the harsh elements to come to Avon in order to instruct voters on the new voting equipment that will be implemented in the March 16, Primary Election. |
February 13, 2004 Story Here Archive |
Elections board continues election investigation |
February 12, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| State approves touch-screen voting software for county By Les Mahler for the San Joaquin News Service STOCKTON The California secretary of state has approved voting software for San Joaquin County, paving the way for the county to use the technology with no worries in the March 2 primary. |
February 12, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| New voting machines in Pittsfield By: Ryan Peterson for Capital News 9 State and Federal mandates are requiring municipalities all over the country to phase out and eventually eliminate some older forms of voting technology, including those old lever pulling booths so many of us are used to. |
February 12, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Wexler ponders next move in battle for ballot receipts Palm Beach County judge tosses out by Dale King for the Boca Raton News U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler says he hasn’t given up in his fight to attach a printer to every touch-screen voting machine in Florida. |
U.S. considers e-vote for primaries Story Here Archive |
(U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES ? The U.S. Department of Defense explored an option that would allow citizens overseas to vote online for the upcoming presidential election, but the project was abandoned last Friday. |
February 12, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Plenty of risks associated with touch-screen voting GUEST OPINION, Ed Kleinow in the Florida News-Press I am pleased that The News-Press has taken the position that we need to have a voter verifiable paper record of our votes in case a recount is required. |
February 12, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Commission comes out against voting machines By Nick Claussen the Athens NEWS Associate Editor The Athens County Commissioners have been arguing with the county Board of Elections over new electronic voting machines for the county, and now some members of the Board of Elections are at odds with one another over the issue, too. |
February 12, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Touchscreen ballots don't have to be recounted, official claims By Brendan Farrington, Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla — .The Department of State has notified elections supervisors that touchscreen ballots don't have to be included during manual recounts because there is no question about how voters intended to vote. |
February 12, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| County ordered to offer voters paper ballots By: GIG CONAUGHTON - Staff Writer for the NC Times Less than three weeks before the March 2 elections, state officials have ordered San Diego County to offer voters the option of casting paper ballots because of continued questions and criticisms of new electronic "touch-screen" voting machines. |
February 11, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Election Pros Are Cons Two felons have been involved in printing and processing ballots for King County—one of them a convicted embezzler. A voter activist calls this a security breach by George Howland Jr. of the Seattle Weekly BEV HARRIS HAS tangled with election bigwigs around the country. Her exposés of shady practices, conflicts of interest, and poor security in both the private and public sectors have helped ignite a national debate over the integrity of the U.S. electoral system. Now the 52-year-old Renton resident is claiming that there are local examples of lax security, too—at the King County Department of Records, Elections, and Licensing Services. She says the elections office has John Elder, a convicted drug dealer, printing ballots and Jeff Dean, a 23-count embezzler, programming software. |
February 11, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Voting Receipts Debated By Tim Craig for the Washington Post Critics of Maryland's new $55 million electronic voting system came out in favor of a bill yesterday that would require paper receipts to be printed, verifying each vote. |
February 11, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Voting machine clears a hurdle 4 COUNTIES CAN USE THEM IF THEY ADD SECURITY MEASURES By Elise Ackerman for Mercury News California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley told four counties on Tuesday they could use a controversial Diebold electronic voting machine in the March election if they take additional security measures. |
February 11, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Diebold electronic voting machine passes federal tests By Thomas Peele for the CONTRA COSTA TIMES A controversial touchscreen voting machine scheduled for use in Solano and three other counties for the March 2 election passed a series of federal tests, a spokesman for the California Secretary of State said Tuesday, but it has yet to win final state approval. |
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