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- FL guv wants to junk all touch-screen machines
- In Florida, its back to the future. The state whose election irregularities sent the presidential election of 2000 to the Supreme Court and spawned a crisis in the trustworthiness of electronic voting machines wants to go back to all paper ballots. Gov. Charlie Crist will ask the Florida...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections, ballot, Charlie Crist, e-voting
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Next step in e-voting: printers that don't jam
- The widespread use of e-voting machines yielded a backlash among voters. Most election officials have opted for system that include a paper audit trail, so voters can check that their votes were entered in the electronic machine as intended. But that solution is creating another low-tech glitch, AP reports...
- Tags: e-voting, Elections, Government technology, paper, printer, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Changes in e-voting afoot but who will foot the bill?
- With new federal guidelines on e-voting machines and widespread voter discontent, changes at the polling place are a sure thing for the 2008 Presidential election, The New York Times reports. "In the next two years I think well see the kinds of sweeping changes that people expected to see...
- Tags: Elections, State &, Local Govt, Government technology, paper
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- Sarasota, FL, junks e-voting machines
- Things went so swimmingly on election day in Sarasota County, FL, that the county will abandon touch-screen voting in 2008 and return to paper ballots, the Orland Sentinel reports. The e-voting machines may have lost some 18,000 votes in a hotly contested congressional race. That was the number...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Elections Kathy Dent, ballot, voter
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
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- FCC wants public comment on digital democracy - voting online
- Online Voting - Destroying the integrity and fabric of democracy.On-line voting without safe guards against vote selling and guarantee that each vote was registered in private invalidates the intent and meaning of "one person, one vote."It's bad enough that this hole currently exists with the current mail-in voting process.RE: FCC...
- Tags: Federal government, digital democracy, public comment, FCC
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Apple
- Applere: So, will Cook and Co. release the hounds?That question was rhetorical, wasn't it?Apple can now sue EVERY touch screen device maker!!1!1one!!1From the patent:[i]detecting [b]one[/b] or more finger contacts with the touch screen display[/i]This patent doesn't cover just multi-touch, it also covers single touch. All touch screen devices have detected...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Tablets, touch screen, Pre, multi-touch, Apple Inc., patent, Apple iPhone, Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-27
- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?
- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?RE: Will e-voting machines tilt the election?First the reported problems are far more widespread than Tennessee and West Virginia. The e-voting systems are being reported as having the similar issues nationwide and even with different manufactures.See http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6616The behavior being reported is hardly the type of...
- Tags: Keyboards, e-voting system, e-voting, e-voting machine, touch screen
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Ohio orders counties to offer paper ballot option
- Playing things right down to the wire, Ohio election officials have ordered counties that use touch-screen voting machines -- there are 55 of them -- to provide paper ballots for voters who request them during the March 4 primary, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. Secretary of State Jennifer...
- Tags: County, Ballot, Ohio, Keyboards, Financial Accounting, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Finance, Components, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- A looming election nightmare?
- After the recount debacle of 2000, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act HAVA. As a result, most states went out and replaced their punch card ballots with electronic voting machines. Unfortunately, evidence is mounting that this will have the opposite effect than the one Congress intended. ...
- Tags: Problem, Diebold Inc., Ballot, E-voting, Corporate Governance, Printers, Government, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Peripherals, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Diebold wants out of elections, but buyers are scarce
- Diebold wants out of elections, but buyers are scarceDont trust paper ballots eitherWhat proof do you have that your paper ballot gets counted? Before Al Gore's election challenge we never counted dangling chads or anything else the counting machines rejected.Not that it matters much as ALL the candidates the...
- Tags: ballot, felon, Diebold Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- No access to code in eVoting case
- A district court of appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that denied access to the source code of he iVotronic touch-screen systems made by Elections Systems & Software in a contested election for a Florida U.S. House seat.Christine Jennings, who lost the race by 369 votes claims that the...
- Tags: Security, Government, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Paper trail bill voted out of House committee. Would such a law have prevented Sarasota?
- A bill that would require all touch-screen voting systems to produce a paper receipt for each ballot cast is moving forward in the US House, Computerworld reports. The House Administration Committee approved the bill on Tuesday and there could be a full floor vote on the measure, called...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Sarasota, touch screen, PFAW
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- New e-voting rules could mean new machines would be scrapped
- Several Pennyslvania counties say they may have to scrap their recently purchased voting machines - at a cost of several million dollars - if newly proposed rules become law, the Pittsburg Post-Gazette reports. The proposed change calls for all voting machines to print the type of ballot that can...
- Tags: Elections, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Feinstein asks for probe in FL election
- Sen. Diane Feinstein of California is calling for a "top-to-bottom" investigation into the House race in Sarasota County, FL, where no one can explain why 18,000 ballots didnt include a vote for a hotly contested House race, CNets Anne Broache notes. Feinstein, the chairwoman of a Senate panel with...
- Tags: Elections, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-18
- Supreme Court rejects appeal of FL voting machines
- The U.S. Supreme Court will not consider whether Floridas touch-screen voting machines need to have a paper trail in case of a recount, The Orlando Sentinel reports. U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler appealled a lower-court ruling that the states touch-screen voting machines dont need to leave a paper ballot trail....
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Courts, Elections, Christine Jennings
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- FL legislature contends with problems with e-voting machines
- When the Florida Legislature convenes in March, the future of electronic voting machines will be one of the top items of business. While much of the country is registering fears about the ways votes are handled with the machines, Florida once again is in the limelight with an ongoing controversy...
- Tags: paper ballot, ballot, e-voting, Christine Jennings, E-Voting Machine
- Blog posts 2006-12-26
- Bad sample ballot may explain voting shortfall in FL
- Its looking increasingly likely that those 18,000 missing votes in a congressional race in Floridas Sarasota County really were never cast, rather than being lost in a e-voting snafu. One possible reason for the shortfall: In efforts to save money the county sent out a sample ballot that didnt match...
- Tags: ballot, sample ballot, Elections, State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- E-voting a fiasco?
- E-voting a fiasco?VotingIn New York, voting itself is a waste of time. Hillary is still here and, who would have thought it possible, Shumer is even more full of himself than he was the day before.E-Voting FiascoThere are several good sites that list the various problems in this last, and...
- Tags: e-voting, fiasco
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- E-voting
- E-votingSo that's why PJ bans "politics"Not that it works, of course, but boy if you want to be provocative you've succeeded. I won't argue the Democrats have clean hands. There is the old story of how after his death William F. Buckley's grandfather switched from Republican to Democrat....
- Tags: Vertical industries, Keyboards, e-voting, government, VOTING MACHINES
- Discussion threads 2006-11-14
- In FL, missing e-votes cast doubt on House race
- A Florida Democrat who lost his House race is seeking a recount after dozens of people reported problems using Sarasota County’s touch-screen voting machines and a significant number of ballots had no recorded votes in the high-profile race, The New York Times reports. Christine Jennings lost to...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections, Christine Jennings
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
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