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February 09, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 9, 2004 Elections officials say touch-screen machines now working OK The Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) More than a year after Louisiana encountered its first problems with its new touch-screen voting machines, elections officials said Monday the machines are operating properly and the state should pay the rest of the bill for them. |
February 09, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 9, 2004 Voting Machines On Trial In Fairfax: Ill-Fated Fall Vote Prompts Scrutiny By David Cho Washington Post Staff Writer The Democratic presidential nomination is not the only issue on the line in tomorrow's primary in Virginia. Local and state lawmakers say they will be watching closely how Fairfax County's touch-screen voting system performs after its disastrous debut in the November elections. |
February 09, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 9, 2004 E-Vote Machines Drop More Ballots By Kim Zetter for Wired News Six electronic voting machines used in two North Carolina counties lost 436 absentee ballot votes in the 2002 general election because of a software problem, raising increasing doubts about the accuracy and integrity of voting equipment in a presidential election year. |
February 09, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 9, 2004 High-tech twist for election Machines: The new touch-screen voting system is making it harder for counties to recruit election judges. By Ryan Davis of the Baltimore Sun Staff Election judge George Ruggles had practically memorized the 69-page manual on how to do his job. Piece of cake, he thought. Then he saw this year's 101-page version, and it's causing him quite a headache. More instructions. More responsibility. And new high-tech voting machines. |
February 9, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 9, 2004 Novachek won't appeal By: B.J. O'Brien if the Bethel Sun Former Republican First Selectwoman Judith Novachek announced this week that neither she nor nine other fellow party members will appeal a decision by Danbury Superior Court Judge Douglas Mintz to dismiss their lawsuit that sought to overturn the Nov. 4 municipal elections. |
Sometime via the 'Net? Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 9, 2004 I wrote about Internet-based voting after the chad-filled fiasco of the last presidential election. The column was not all that sanguine about the prospects, and events of the last few weeks have reinforced my skepticism. |
February 09, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 9, 2004 Paperless E-voting Is a Threat Opinion by Dan Gillmor for ComputerWorld In the electronic-voting scandal that threatens one of our most fundamental duties in a democracy voting there's a small amount of good news but plenty of bad news. Which is why I'm going to ask IT people to do something that may seem, at first glance, overtly political. |
Michigan perseveres with Internet voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 9, 2004 Michigan Democrats will choose their presidential candidate via the Internet, despite doubts cast by the US Defense Department on online voting's security |
Michigan Net ballots get vote of approval Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 9, 2004 The only U.S. presidential contest in 2004 to use Internet voting was completed over the weekend without a hitch, the Michigan Democratic Party said Monday. Michigan's caucus, in which nearly one-third of the votes cast arrived through the Internet, gave presidential contender John Kerry another early victory over rivals Howard Dean, John Edwards and Wesley Clark. |
February 08, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, February 8, 2004 Report questions secure use of voting machines By Alex Wayne, Staff Writer News & Record in Greensville, North Carolina A recent report on voting reform questions the security and accuracy of the kind of electronic touch-screen voting machines used in Guilford County, saying that the machines “have raised more suspicion than the antiquated punch-card and lever machines they were slated to replace. |
February 08, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, February 8, 2004 Budgeting for Another Florida Opinion from the NY Times President Bush has been spending money with reckless abandon, but he has found at least one place to economize: election reform. Mr. Bush undoubtedly remembers the debacle of 2000, and the federal government's promise to replace unreliable voting machines, train poll workers and upgrade voter registration lists before another presidential election rolled around. But in the budget he proposed last week, fixing the machinery of American democracy wound up on the bottom of the president's priorities, and wildly underfunded. |
February 09, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, February 8, 2004 Integrity of 'paperless' voting at issue: Vanderburgh County to debut touch-screen balloting in May primary By JOHN MARTIN of the Evansville Courier & Press Concern that new paperless voting technology could sabotage elections this year is surfacing across the United States in newspaper columns, Internet sites and among some members of Congress. |
February 09, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Sunday, February 8, 2004 Caroline voters to go digital As advent of touch-screen voting raises concerns, Caroline residents will try out the new technology in Tuesday's presidential primary By CONOR REILLY of the Fredericksburgh, VA Free-Lance Star Voters in Caroline County will try out a new way to vote when they go to the polls in tomorrow's Democratic presidential primary. |
February 07, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, February 7, 2004 Officials challenge Wexler's suit for state paper ballots By Kathy Bushouse of The Palm Beach Sun-Sentinel U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler's lawsuit to require paper ballots for the state's voting machines should be dismissed or transferred out of Palm Beach County, attorneys for the county elections supervisor and Florida secretary of state argued Friday. |
February 07, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, February 7, 2004 Tallying the supervisors Palm Beach Post Editorial Pam Iorio, the former Hillsborough County elections supervisor who last year was elected Tampa's mayor, is correct that the public "has a different take of what they're going to accept and not accept" in the wake of the 2000 presidential election debacle. With her former colleagues increasingly hanging up more than their chads, however, the public will only further question the integrity of their increasingly electronic voting systems. |
February 07, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, February 7, 2004 Florida Still Producing Voting Mix-Ups Special to the NNPA from the Westside Gazette Arguments against paperless touch screen voting machines took on greater urgency earlier this month, following a disputed special election involving Florida House District 91, which extends along the coast from Boca Raton to Dania Beach. Now many state election officials are left wondering if another election debacle rivaling the 2000 presidential election could be just around the corner. |
Michigan tries online balloting: Attempt by Dems in Arizona in 2000 was unsuccessful Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, February 7, 2004 Today's caucuses in Michigan featured the presidential primary season's only opportunity to cast an early vote over the Internet, a novelty that brought Arizona Democrats international attention when they pioneered it with limited success four years ago. |
February 06, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 6, 2004 The Potential for Voting Machine Fraud Charles R. Smith for NewsMax.com There is an old proverb in data processing: To err is human. To really mess things up you need a computer. The flawed 2000 presidential election in Florida unleashed a sudden and urgent effort to reform the U.S. voting system. At the forefront of this effort are businesses offering touch screen computer voting and Internet voting systems to replace punch cards and physical paper ballots. |
February 06, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 6, 2004 Local News from The PalmBeach Post The Palm Beach County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union wants to join in a lawsuit seeking to mandate a "paper trail" for electronic voting machines. The local ACLU filed a motion Thursday to join U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach, as a plaintiff in his suit against Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood and Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore. Wexler wants a judge to order the county to include ballot printers with its paperless electronic voting system. A hearing on motions to dismiss the suit or to have it moved to Tallahassee is scheduled for today in Palm Beach Circuit Court. |
February 06, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 6, 2004 Election board confronts rep for voting equipment Greenwood Members of the Johnson County Election Board on Thursday blasted a representative from Election Systems & Software for providing allegedly illegal voting equipment during last year's general election. The state's election commission had not certified the software used in the machines as reliable and accurate, which meant counties should not have used it. |
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