Kim Alexander's Weblog

CVF President and Founder Kim Alexander highlights voting technology developments around the state and nation and shares her views in her weblog. Contact Kim via email at kimalex at calvoter dot org. (How to use XML)

Archives

2008

• 04/01/08 - LA Times/Onion on Diebold (April Fools!)

• 04/01/08 - CA Post-election tally reports now online at SoS site

• 03/25/08 - A record nine million Californians participated in Presidential primary

• 03/19/08 - CA SoS Debra Bowen wins JFK Profile in Courage award

• 03/19/08 - Pennsylvania Yanks Voter Site After Data Leak

• 03/17/08 - Review, video and audio of Joint Legislative "double bubble" hearing

• 03/08/08 - 12,000 Uncounted vote results posted online; hearing coverage from the Daily Breeze

• 03/07/08 - Testimony from today's hearing in Los Angeles

• 03/05/08 - 12,000 presidential votes go uncounted in Los Angeles

• 02/27/08 - Joint Legislative Hearing March 7 in LA to review Primary election problems

• 02/27/08 - LA Supervisors ask for full accounting of double bubble trouble

• 02/26/08 - LA Registrar informs Board, SoS of his vote-counting plans

• 02/19/08 - "Double Bubble" Forum archive, SoS letter to LA, and new LA Times story

• 02/15/08 - LA vote counting issues on KQED's "Forum" this morning

• 02/14/08 - LA Times editorial on the "double bubble" trouble

• 02/13/08 - Decline-to-state voters' ballots in L.A. may get counted

• 02/13/08 - LA County Registrar's report estimates 49,500 presidential votes will go uncounted

• 02/07/08 - At least 90,000 undervotes reported in Los Angeles County

• 02/06/08 - California election results and more on LA's "double bubble" trouble

• 02/06/08 - Counting up California's Presidential primary votes

• 02/05/08 - Counting the votes in California, issues with LA's ballot layout

• 02/05/08 - NJ touchscreen machines keep state's governor from voting

• 02/04/08 - Counting votes -- it ain't fast food, folks!

• 02/01/08 - Election Q&A from KFOG

• 02/01/08 - Political parties and delegate votes explained on Fresh Air

• 01/30/08 - Interview on KFOG's Morning Show Thursday, Jan. 31

• 01/30/08 - California's Vote-by-Mail voters in the news

• 01/30/08 - Updated "Top 5" donors on California ballot propositions

• 01/28/08 - KQED radio story on election house parties

• 01/23/08 - Voting equipment problems in Sacramento lead to change of plans

• 01/22/08 - Judge issues decision in County of San Diego vs. Bowen case

• 01/18/08 - January 22 is California's voter registration deadline

• 01/17/08 - Tentative decision in San Diego case favors Secretary of State

• 01/16/08 - SoS Debra Bowen's post-election audit rules challenged by counties

• 01/14/08 - New electronic voting documentary now playing in theaters

• 01/14/08 - CVF helps voters follow the money on California propositions

• 01/03/08 - Colorado Secretary of State wants paper ballots for 2008

2007

• 12/20/07 - CVF's new online voter guide for Feb. 5 election debuts!

• 12/19/07 - Online Voter Registration hearing - my testimony & webcast

• 12/13/07 - Update on California legislative hearings

• 12/12/07 - Please contribute to the California Voter Foundation!

• 12/07/07 - CA legislative hearings next week on voter outreach & registration

• 11/19/07 - CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen sues ES&S; seeks $15 million in damages

• 11/08/07 - Waiting for election results in the Inland Empire

• 11/02/07 - Who's giving? Who knows? States keep voters in the dark - USA Today editorial

• 10/18/07 - News coverage of Grading State Disclosure 2007 study

• 10/17/07 - 36 states pass, 14 fail nationwide campaign finance disclosure assessment

• 10/16/07 - Nationwide study evaluating campaign finance disclosure to be released Oct. 17

• 08/04/07 - California voting machines decertified

• 02/05/07 - U.S. Senate Hearing on Electronic Voting Wednesday, Feb. 7

• 01/24/07 - Social Security data puts 1.3 million voters at risk

• 01/08/07 - Debra Bowen Sworn in as California's 30th Secretary of State

2006

• 12/20/06 - Certified state election results now online

• 12/05/06 - Election certification deadline looms

• 12/01/06 - Security Of Electronic Voting Is Condemned - washingtonpost.com

• 11/29/06 - Manual Count update

• 11/13/06 - CA Secretary of State-elect Debra Bowen profiled in LA Times

• 11/07/06 - Help Verify the Vote: Observe California's Manual Count

• 11/06/06 - Election Day Resources

• 10/30/06 - U.S. Investigates Voting Machines' Venezuela Ties

• 10/21/06 - Now playing on YouTube - The Proposition Song Video!

• 10/21/06 - CVF is hiring!

• 10/12/06 - Introducing the new Proposition Song!

• 10/05/06 - Election update: news articles, candidates' debate, and more

• 09/28/06 - U.S. House Hearing on Paper Trails webcast live

• 09/25/06 - Articles I'm reading today....

• 09/21/06 - New county-by-county voting equipment directory and map now online

• 09/15/06 - Princeton video shows how to hack a Diebold voting machine

• 09/12/06 - New California Online Voter Guide debuts!

• 07/11/06 - Summer schedule

• 06/20/06 - SF Chronicle, PBS' NewsHour coverage of California Primary

• 06/16/06 - More manual count dates set, underway

• 06/13/06 - California manual counts underway

• 06/13/06 - News stories highlight CA Primary voting technology issues and problems

• 06/06/06 - My Day at the Polls

• 06/06/06 - Early Voting Problems in San Joaquin

• 06/06/06 - Malfunctioning cards delayed poll voting Tuesday morning in Kern County

• 06/05/06 - Election Eve Thoughts

• 06/02/06 - Election resources at www.calvoter.org

• 05/24/06 - Is all mail-in balloting in California's future?

• 05/23/06 - NPR story highlights security risks with e-voting machines

• 05/16/06 - Radio Interview today on the June Primary

• 05/15/06 - Secretary of State's race in the news

• 05/11/06 - Black Box Voting releases new Hursti study on Diebold touchscreens

• 05/10/06 - New security glitch found in Diebold system

• 05/08/06 - Riverside County activists to monitor voting equipment

• 05/05/06 - Voting equipment changes ahead for California counties

• 05/04/06 - California first in nation to implement e-voting reform

• 05/03/06 - Shake-ups in county election offices

• 05/01/06 - 2006 Pioneer awards announced

• 04/26/06 - New California Online Voter Guide debuts

• 04/24/06 - Several counties returning to paper ballots

• 04/20/06 - Vote counting woes in Long Beach signal what may be ahead in June

• 04/17/06 - California voter registration problems in the news

• 04/14/06 - Voting reform activists lobby Congress for paper trails and publicly verified vote counts

• 04/11/06 - SAT test score scandal shows the value of verification

• 04/07/06 - CA voter reg hearing, OH SoS' Diebold stock, and a PA follow-up

• 04/06/06 - Live audio webcast of California State Senate hearing

• 04/05/06 - Update on CA's voter registration database issues; hearing tomorrow

• 03/31/06 - CA voter registration database, voter fraud and Sequoia in the news

• 03/28/06 - County voting plans come into focus at Prop. 41 board meeting

• 03/23/06 - Diebold in the spotlight - again - as counties make plans for the upcoming election

• 03/21/06 - New CA Lawsuit Against Diebold's Electronic Voting Machines

• 03/21/06 - Sequoia Touchscreen with Paper Trail Certified, With Conditions

• 03/15/06 - Alameda supervisors vote 3-2 to move forward on new voting equipment

• 03/14/06 - More news on the case against Diebold whistleblower

• 03/13/06 - Hart Intercivic eSlate with paper trail is certified

• 03/13/06 - Lessons to learn from Tarrant County, Texas

• 03/10/06 - Complexity causes 50 percent of product returns

• 03/09/06 - From E-Voting to Paper Ballots in Piedmont, CA

• 03/08/06 - Making Democracy Transparent, by David Dill

• 03/07/06 - More on the prosecution of Diebold law firm whistleblower

• 03/02/06 - CA certification hearing draws e-voting critics

• 03/02/06 - NM Governor to sign paper ballot bill today in live webcast

• 02/28/06 - Voting system certification hearing tomorrow in Sacramento

• 02/23/06 - New CVF web page about California's manual count law

• 02/23/06 - LA Times articles on Diebold and Voting Security

• 02/21/06 - More details on the Secretary of State's Diebold certification

• 02/17/06 - Secretary of State grants conditional certification for Diebold voting systems

• 02/15/06 - Senate Elections Committee hearing on voting equipment testing tomorrow

• 02/09/06 - Review of the Senate hearing on open source software in voting systems

• 02/07/06 - Hearing on Open Source Software for voting systems tomorrow in Sacramento

• 02/06/06 - Voting systems move closer to certification

• 02/01/06 - Open Source, Voting Equipment Certification Process to be discussed at upcoming hearings

• 01/30/06 - Secretary of State requests voting system contingency plans

• 01/30/06 - Disabled try out voting machines

• 01/26/06 - Yolo County picks Vote-PAD for accessibility

• 01/23/06 - Diebold's interpreted source code

• 01/19/06 - Thoughts and coverage on yesterday's voting systems Senate hearing

• 01/17/06 - Registrars, Secretary of State weigh in on June voting options

• 01/13/06 - CA Senate hearing on voting systems next Wednesday

• 01/11/06 - Alameda seeks urgent legislation for all-mail balloting in June

• 01/10/06 - SF Chronicle story examines support and opposition for paper trails

• 01/09/06 - Riverside looks to replace its voting machines while Alameda ponders all-mail balloting

• 01/06/06 - Interesting news from Connecticut and Wisconsin

• 01/03/06 - CA Voting tech updates in the Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee

2005

• 12/21/05- CA Secretary of State kicks Diebold certification back to the feds

• 12/15/05 - Securities fraud class action filed against Diebold

• 12/13/05 - Controversial Diebold CEO resigns

• 12/09/05 - Survey: Internet can help people gain political power

• 12/07/05 - Court hears Riverside County e-voting recount appeal

• 12/02/05 - North Carolina illegally certifies Diebold e-voting system

• 12/01/05 - More coverage of the Secretary of State's Voting Systems Summit

• 11/30/05 - My presentation at the Secretary of State's Voting Systems Testing Summit

• 11/30/05 - Update on Secretary of State's security test plans

• 11/25/05 - Hacker to try to attack state voting machines

• 11/25/05 - More coverage of the Diebold hearing

• 11/21/05 - Report on SoS Hearing on Certification of Diebold's TSx voting system

• 11/17/05 - Diebold TSx Certification Hearing Monday, Nov. 21

• 11/15/05 - A collection of glitches from Tuesday's election

• 11/10/05 - Relatively calm Election Day

• 11/10/05 - End of paperless e-voting in California

• 11/08/05 - Voting Hotline -- Report problems at 1-866-OUR-VOTE

• 11/08/05 - Schwarzenegger Hits Snag at Polling Place

• 11/08/05 - Voters in Electronic Voting Counties Have the Right to Request a Paper Ballot at the Polls

• 11/07/05 - Bounty of Information for Voters Online

• 11/01/05 - One week to go -- are you ready? Have a house party!

• 10/28/05 - Mail ballot request deadline approaching; voters in nine counties urged to "Get it on paper"

• 10/26/05 - CVF releases Grading State Disclosure 2005 report

• 10/25/05 - New GAO report provides critical analysis of e-voting and federal oversight

• 10/19/05 - Some counties testing electronic vote machines / Equipment verifies ballot choices and aids disabled voters

• 10/17/05 - McPherson's AB 1636 signing statement

• 10/14/05 - New California voting technology map, directory now online

• 10/14/05 - Susan Marie Weber profiled in the Desert Sun

• 10/12/05 - Alameda county poll finds nearly half the county's voters prefer to mail in ballots

• 10/11/05 - Governor signs landmark bill to require public audits of software vote counts

• 10/10/05 - Governor signs bill requiring public auditing of software vote counts

• 10/07/05 - Governor Schwarzenegger signs SB 370!

• 10/06/05 - Secretary of State announces security measures -- good, but not good enough

• 10/03/05 - ACCURATE's comments on EAC's federal voluntary voting system guidelines

• 09/30/05 - EAC survey on 2004 election finds e-voting jurisdictions with low voter turnout rates

• 09/28/05 - Andrew Gumbel reports on Georgia's questionable practices with Diebold

• 09/26/05 - Oakland Tribune editorial supports transparency in computerized vote counts

• 09/23/05 - Wired News on the paper trail

• 09/21/05 - CA Secretary of State issues special election directives to counties

• 09/21/05 - Author Andrew Gumbel comments on the Carter-Baker report

• 09/20/05 - Bakersfield Californian endorses SB 370

• 09/20/05 - Coverage of the Carter-Baker Commission/SB 370

• 09/19/05 - Senator Bowen blogs on SB 370 & Carter-Baker commission report

• 09/19/05 - Carter-Baker commission recommends paper trail

• 09/15/05 - Riverside Press Enterprise endorses SB 370

• 09/14/05 - Coverage of the county registrars' opposition to SB 370

• 09/13/05 - Verified Voting seeks new President/CEO

• 09/12/05 - CORRECTION to blog entry from Friday, September 9

• 09/09/05 - County Clerks' letter explains their opposition to public verification of election results

• 09/08/05 - UK drops plans for e-voting

• 09/01/05 - CVF sends letter to Governor Schwarzenegger urging him to sign SB 370

• 08/31/05 - Alameda votes to consider alternatives to Diebold; San Joaquin plans to stick with TSx's

• 08/31/05 - Mercury News editorial: Paper ballot spot check is key to election integrity

• 08/30/05 - Alameda County Board of Supervisors will vote today on voting technology plans

• 08/30/05 - SB 370 heads to the Governor's desk

• 08/29/05 - SB 370 passes the Senate on a unanimous vote

• 08/29/05 - Orange County registrar placed on leave

• 08/25/05 - Assembly passes SB 370; Alameda plans to go with "blended" system

• 08/25/05 - SB 370/Bowen likely to be taken up on Assembly Floor today

• 08/25/05 - San Diego recount shows computer-counted results were accurate

• 08/22/05 - Diebold hires former Democratic Party chairman for PR campaign

• 08/18/05 - San Diego group conducts parallel election, requests vote recount

• 08/16/05 - Secretary of State opposes legislation to require use of paper trail for election verification

• 08/15/05 - USA Today story on paper trails in the states

• 08/12/05 - Supreme Court allows redistricting initiative on November ballot

• 08/11/05 - State appeals court keeps redistricting measure off the ballot

• 08/08/05 - California tightens rules for e-voting vendors

• 08/04/05 - E-voting commentary by author Andrew Gumbel in today's LA Times

• 08/03/05 - Secretary of State announces new voting equipment vendors requirements

• 08/03/05 - Report details on TSx testing show nearly 20 percent failure rate

• 08/03/05 - Department of Justice to Hold Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Symposium

• 08/02/05 - Diebold TSx rejection and its impact on California counties

• 07/29/05 - More news on the Secretary of State's rejection of Diebold's touchscreen voting system

• 07/29/05 - More on the Diebold TSx rejection

• 07/28/05 - California Secretary of State rejects Diebold's application for certification of the TSx voting system

• 07/27/05 - Governor signs voter data bill

• 07/25/05 - Proposition 80 removed from ballot

• 07/22/05 - Political donations from a Diebold consultant in Ohio stirs controversy

• 07/21/05 - Judge orders Prop. 77 off the ballot

• 07/20/05 - Secretary of State's Voting Systems Panel meeting cancelled

• 07/14/05 - AP story: California Election Cycle Burns Out Voters

• 07/07/05 - Redistricting measure could drop off ballot

• 06/29/05 - Alameda County supervisors approve registrar's plans to swap Diebold machines

• 06/28/05 - CVF urges Alameda County supervisors to consider alternatives

• 06/27/05 - Alameda County to hold hearing tomorrow on its voting system plans

• 06/24/05 - CVF & EFF urge California's Secretary of State to support public verification of election results

• 06/21/05 - SoS Bruce McPherson seeks public comment on vote auditing legislation

• 06/17/05 - News coverage of yesterday's Voting Systems Panel hearing

• 06/16/05 - Report on today's Voting Systems and Procedures Panel hearing

• 06/13/05 - Diebold equipment up for California certification this week

• 06/06/05 - Bev Harris demonstrates computer vote counting risks in Leon County, FLA

• 06/03/05 - California receives election money held up during investigation

• 06/03/05 - Cook County, IL to implement new paper-based voting system

• 05/31/05 - Miami-Dade's elections chief urges new system

• 05/26/05 - PPIC poll finds Governor lacks support for special election

• 05/25/05 - Stanford students offer photo essays of election equipment and procedures

• 05/24/05 - High school hackers

• 05/23/05 - Tom Wilkey to serve as EAC executive director

• 05/17/05 - CVF web page provides information on Los Angeles Mayoral Election

• 05/11/05 - Andrew Gumbel's recent piece in the Nation on Electoral Standards

• 05/11/05 - Documentary film about elections to air in San Francisco May 17 & 21

• 05/06/05 - CA SoS McPherson travels to DC to meet with the EAC

• 05/05/05 - Washington State enacts paper trail law

• 05/03/05 - Nevada lawmakers question need to replace Sequoia Advantage e-voting machines

• 04/25/05 - On vacation this week

• 04/22/05 - EAC member, former chairman, resigns

• 04/20/05 - Voting Systems panel to meet tomorrow

• 04/14/05 - Sacramento Bee story on changes in the Secretary of State's office

• 04/13/05 - News release announcing Brad Clark's appointment

• 04/13/05 - Changes at the Secretary of State's office

• 04/08/05 - New CVF report on California voter participation barriers and incentives

• 03/30/05 - McPherson sworn in as 29th secretary of state

• 03/28/05 - Bruce McPherson confirmation update

• 03/22/05 - Election Bill Tracker available from Common Cause

• 03/17/05 - McPherson confirmation update, opening statement

• 03/17/05 - McPherson confirmation hearings

• 03/15/05 - Bruce McPherson names transition team

• 03/15/05 - West Virginia Secretary of State backs optical scanners

• 03/14/05 - The Week Ahead: Legislative hearings on Secretary of State confirmation, voter privacy

• 03/09/05 - Montogomery County, MD reports problems with 12 percent of its Diebold touchscreens

• 03/04/05 - Overview of federal paper trail legislation

• 03/02/05 - San Diego names old registrar as new registrar

• 02/28/05 - Christopher Hitchens weighs in on e-voting in February's Vanity Fair

• 02/25/05 - Riverside legislator introduces bill to watch

• 02/24/05 - Yale Information Society Project weighs in on e-voting in Connecticut

• 02/22/05 - Kevin Shelley's mother has passed away

• 02/18/05 - Unilect's voting machine freezes up during demonstration

• 02/14/05 - San Diego's registrar to retire

• 02/14/05 - Voting machine modernization will be key challenge for new Secretary of State

• 02/11/05 - Governor Names Bruce McPherson As Secretary Of State

• 02/10/05 - NASS opposes federal oversight of election systems

• 02/10/05 - LA Times reports on costs of adding printers to California's e-voting machines

• 02/08/05 - Butte County's election clerk says paper trail does nothing to improve security

• 02/07/05 - Los Angeles county registrar blasts tighter certification process

• 02/05/05 - Tearful Shelley resigns

• 02/03/05 - Printer fails to satisfy e-vote activists

• 02/01/05 - Paper trail for e-votes would cost millions

• 01/27/05 - Riverside: County to lobby for e-vote funding

• 01/25/05 - State OKs e-vote printer

• 01/25/05 - Machine that lost votes in N.C. did same in Pennsylvania

• 01/19/05 - Ohio reverses course, moves to optical scan instead of touchscreen voting equipment

• 01/17/05 - "We must get our house in order"

• 01/11/05 - Broadcast of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee hearing

• 01/10/05 - Corruption Probe Dims Shelley's Once-Rising Star

• 01/06/05 - Congress certifies Bush's win after protest

2004

• 12/28/04 - NYT: Setting Standards for Fair Elections

• 12/20/04 - Please Donate to the California Voter Foundation

• 12/17/04 - OH: Elections official doesn't believe computer was tampered with

• 12/13/04 - More Questions for Florida -- Clint Curtis' allegations

• 12/13/04 - National Academies Remarks, December 9, 2004

• 12/13/04 - Groups detail voting problems in 2004 election

• 12/13/04 - Shattering the Myth: An Initial Snapshot of Voter Disenfranchisement in the 2004 Elections

• 12/13/04 - Jimmy Carter on NPR's "Fresh Air"

• 12/13/04 - National Federation of the Blind on E-voting and Accessibility

• 12/13/04 - Touchscreen voting supplier experiencing organizational turmoil

• 12/02/04 - Election surprise actually an error

• 11/22/04 - Problems are cited on electronic voting

• 11/22/04 - Researchers: Florida Vote Fishy

• 11/22/04 - Berkeley: President comes up short

• 11/22/04 - Riverside editorial: Open the Machines

• 11/22/04 - Registrar seeks to halt check of electronic voting

• 11/16/04 - News Advisory: Election Verification Project Press Conference

• 11/15/04 - About Those Election Results

• 11/12/04 - Recount changes one Franklin Co. race

• 11/11/04 - E-voting firm puts adversity behind it

• 11/06/04 - Paper trail tested for e-vote devices

• 11/05/04 - Group Finds Voting Irregularities in South

• 11/05/04 - Voting machine error gives Bush 3,893 extra votes in Ohio

• 11/04/04 - E-vote goes smoothly, but experts skeptical

• 11/04/04 - SF: New voting method breaks down

• 11/04/04 - FL: Defective software 'lost' votes

• 11/04/04 - NC: Computer Loses 4,500 Votes

• 11/02/04 - OH: Judge orders officials to provide paper ballots

• 11/02/04 - Scattered problems impede some voting

• 11/02/04 - MD: Record voter turnouts predicted, but some glitches reported

• 11/02/04 - FL: Palm Beach County sees some complaints in first half of voting

• 11/02/04 - VA: New touch-screen voting machines present problems in Culpeper, Westmoreland

• 11/02/04 - Glitches thwart some S.C. voters

• 11/01/04 - CVF Election Announcements

• 11/01/04 - Precinct provides voters with paper trail for touchscreen ballots

• 11/01/04 - Counties quiet about paper ballots

• 11/01/04 - Poll: Voters show a fair amount of skepticism

• 10/28/04 - E-voting rules likely to lead to confusion in 10 counties

• 10/27/04 - Top 25 E-Voting Places to Watch

• 10/26/04 - HI: State terminates deal for voting machines

• 10/26/04 - TX: County Responds to Voting Machine Problems

• 10/26/04 - Check out www.PaperOrPlastic2004.org

• 10/25/04 - 60 Minutes to broadcast story on e-voting, Wednesday, October 27

• 10/25/04 - Florida Judge dismisses touch-screen voting suit

• 10/19/04 - High court orders a review of challenge to fax voting

• 10/19/04 - Scholars: Limited access to voting data hurts research - Oct 10, 2004

• 10/19/04 - In Florida, Early Voting Means an Early Return to Problems

• 10/19/04 - Florida Sets Touch-Screen Recounts Rule

• 10/13/04 - Court fees cut into Diebold earnings

• 10/11/04 - No harm done with glitches, election officials say

• 10/07/04 - Federal agency to spend $1 million to recruit poll workers, help Florida precincts

• 10/07/04 - Study: Voting technology needs work; Scientists say more research is needed to prevent problems

• 10/06/04 - Washington State: 20 voting machines broke down during the Snohomish County primary

• 10/05/04 - E-voting doubts surface -- Group urges use of absentee ballots in counties with electronic systems

• 10/01/04 - Commonwealth Club E-voting panel, October 7

• 10/01/04 - 1990 Federal Voting System Standards

• 10/01/04 - Diebold Loses Key Copyright Case

• 09/29/04 - Judge sides with county in dispute over electronic voting records

• 09/29/04 - Ex-Diebold employee to run Solano elections

• 09/29/04 - Florida -- More Officials Seek Paper Vote Files

• 09/29/04 - Calif. bill bans paperless voting systems

• 09/27/04 - State's E-Vote Trust Builds Slowly

• 09/27/04 - Analysis of e-voting coverage in SF Bay Area newspapers

• 09/27/04 - Hillsborough, FL: Slow count blamed on computer indexing

• 09/27/04 - Activists Find More E-Vote Flaws

• 09/26/04 - Activists show alleged vote machine flaws

• 09/26/04 - Tallying the Woes of Electronic Balloting

• 09/16/04 - CVF-NEWS Round-up: paper trail progress in CA, NV; CA HAVA funds

• 09/16/04 - How It Works: Holding the Vote-Counting Machines Accountable

• 09/08/04 - Nevada Touch-Screen Voting Has Paper Trail

• 09/08/04 - Calif. Joins Electronic Voting Lawsuit

• 09/03/04 - Board Begins Process Of Firing Maryland Election Administrator

• 09/03/04 - Ballot-counting mistake in Palm Beach County deemed simple human error

• 09/03/04 - Designer of Florida's butterfly ballot loses job

• 09/02/04 - Solano County pays $415,000 to get out of e-voting contract

• 09/02/04 - The trouble with e-voting - Aug. 30, 2004

• 09/02/04 - Diebold Learns What Edison Knew: Voting Machine Sales Are Tough

• 08/31/04 - Machine Politics

• 08/31/04 - Florida judge: touchscreen counties must be able to do manual recounts

• 08/31/04 - Mercury News Editorial: Lock in Shelley's e-voting gains

• 08/28/04 - CVF-NEWS: Update: CA Paper Trail Bill Moves Ahead

• 08/26/04 - CVF-NEWS: E-voting reform in the U.S.: progress report & ten things elections officials can do to secure the vote this November

• 08/23/04 - Secretive testing firms certify nation's vote count machines

• 08/23/04 - Johnson county, Indiana to use paper ballots in November

• 08/20/04 - SF Chronicle Editorial in support of voter verified paper trail legislation

• 08/17/04 - Nevada Secretary of State invites nation to observe the paper trail in action

• 08/16/04 - Chavez declares referendum victory, but is battle over?

• 08/15/04 - Rush to absentee ballots may magnify trouble

• 08/13/04 - Wrong Time for an E-Vote Glitch

• 08/12/04 - State approves limited e-voting - 11 counties throughout California are allowed to use touchscreens

• 08/09/04 - Critics: Riverside County resists change

• 08/09/04 - Rolling Down the Highway, Looking Out for Flawed Elections

• 08/06/04 - Europe to monitor American elections

• 08/03/04 - How They Could Steal the Election This Time

• 08/02/04 - LA Times Q&A with Kevin Shelley

• 07/30/04 - Electronic records of some Florida elections wiped out in computer crash, officials say

• 07/23/04 - Richard Alexander, 68; Ex-Culver City Mayor

• 07/21/04 - California Online Voter Guide 11th Edition

• 07/20/04 - ITAA fires back at e-voting critics

• 07/16/04 - California Recount Case to Consider E-Voting Audit Trail

• 07/16/04 - State's top election official pulls plug on electronic voting machines

• 07/13/04 - Nationwide "Computer Ate My Vote" Day of Action

• 07/12/04 - Score another victory for safe elections

• 07/12/04 - Riverside County should redirect energies

• 07/12/04 - Humor from Mark Fiore - Electronic Election 2004

• 07/07/04 - Federal Court Rules in Favor of Paper Trail Reform in E-Voting

• 07/02/04 - U.S. district judge refuses to lift state ban on electronic voting

• 07/02/04 - Down for the Count - Mischelle Townsend profile

• 07/02/04 - Testing of voting machines inadequate, election experts say

• 07/01/04 - Tentative U.S. court ruling in favor of Kevin Shelley's decertification orders

• 06/25/04 - E-voting skeptics rally for paper

• 06/25/04 - One million black votes didn't count in the 2000 presidential election

• 06/20/04 - CVF-NEWS -- June 18, 2004

• 06/17/04 - Venezuelan Recall Is in Dispute Even Before the Vote

• 06/17/04 - State Sets Standards for E-Voting

• 06/17/04 - E-voting regulators often join other side when leaving office

• 06/17/04 - NYT Kevin Shelley profile: He Pushed the Hot Button of Touch-Screen Voting

• 06/17/04 - Sequoia announces SoS has approved its touchscreens for use in Santa Clara this November

• 06/17/04 - League of Women Voters drops support of e-vote machines

• 06/17/04 - Gambling on Voting

• 06/17/04 - Blind group moves to drop suit over voting machines in Ohio

• 06/12/04 -The Disability Lobby and Voting

• 06/12/04 - EAC Chairman calls for better vote security

• 06/12/04 - State Lifts Ban on Orange County E-Voting

• 06/12/04 - E-voting profits no pot of gold

• 06/12/04 - League of Women Voters Is Split on Paperless Computer Voting Systems

• 06/12/04 - Fake Diebold Ads

• 06/09/04 - San Diego County OKs paper ballot plan

• 06/09/04 - Kevin Shelley Profile: E-Vote Fight Has Plenty of Human Drama Too

• 06/09/04 - Voting-machine maker may pay for paper ballots

• 05/30/04 - Lax controls over e-voting test labs

• 05/29/04 - Conny McCormack Q&A

• 05/29/04 - Making Votes Count: Who Tests Voting Machines?

• 05/26/04 - Calif. Senate approves bill giving tighter deadline for e-voting paper trail

• 05/26/04 - County dumps Diebold voting machines

• 05/22/04 - Demand Grows to Require Paper Trails for Electronic Votes

• 05/19/04 - A view from Texas about California and Hart Intercivic

• 05/17/04 - Electronic Voting Vulnerable To Hacking

• 05/16/04 - California e-voting quandry unravels

• 05/16/04 - Voting machine business stormy for Diebold

• 05/16/04 - A Bad Run for Elections Firm

• 05/16/04 - San Diego County staff recommends paper ballots

• 05/15/04 - Blind voters rip e-machines, say defects thwart goal of enfranchising sight-impaired

• 05/14/05 - Members of Congress ask GAO to investigate e-voting

• 05/14/05 - Count Crisis? Election official warns of glitch that may scramble vote auditing

• 05/13/04 - New Voting Commission Seeks More Funding

• 05/06/04 - Bill calling for e-vote ban advances

• 05/06/04 - E-Voting Commission Gets Earful

• 05/05/04 - Senate committee approves bill to ban all e-voting machines in November

• 05/05/04 - E-Vote controversy comes to commission

• 05/05/04 - Kevin Shelley's decertification orders issued April 30, 2004

• 05/05/04 - Time Magazine: The Vexations Of Voting Machines

• 05/05/04 - League of Women Voters' News Release on EAC hearing

• 05/03/04 - Stateline.org: Integrity of electronic voting questioned

• 05/03/04 - E-Voting Oversight Overwhelms U.S. Agency

• 04/25/04 - E-voting rhetoric flies in Oakland

• 04/24/04 - NYT Editorial: Making Votes Count: A Compromised Voting System

• 04/23/04 - Ban on voting machine urged

• 04/23/04 - California votes against Diebold

• 04/22/04 - CA Secretary of State's Voting Systems and Procedures Panel Diebold Investigation

• 04/20/04 - Diebold legal memos reveal company strategy

• 04/19/04 - Solano county registrar to step down this summer

• 04/15/04 - CVF-NEWS round-up

• 04/13/04 - E-voting probe finds no reason for glitches

• 04/09/04 - Some votes miscounted in primary, officials say

• 04/09/04 - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

• 04/06/04 - Berkeley Mayor Asks For Probe Of Alameda Voting Problems

• 04/05/04 - Doubts about e-voting drive bilateral push for paper backups

• 03/31/04 - Official's Travel Gift Questioned

• 03/29/04 - County should look at alternatives to Diebold

• 03/29/04 - Diebold vows to fix e-vote problems

• 03/29/04 - County calls out Diebold execs

• 03/21/04 - CA Secretary of State Voting Systems Panel Meeting, March 30, 2004

• 03/21/04 - Movie clip of closed-door Texas certification meeting

• 03/18/04 - CA Secretary of State Kevin Shelley releases draft paper trail standards

• 03/17/04 - Official says state was forced to certify voting machines

• 03/16/04 - Johnson County Demands Answers From ES&S

• 03/16/04 - Vote-less ballots worry Broward Democrats

• 03/16/04 - County of San Diego Board of Supervisors Meeting Live

• 03/13/04 - Lost E-Votes Could Flip Napa Race

• 03/13/04 - Delays at poll sites blamed on batteries

• 03/13/04 - Electronic voting component wasn't fully tested

• 03/12/04 - California senators want decertification of e-vote systems

• 03/09/04 - A Deafening Silence

• 03/09/04 - 7,000 Orange County Voters Were Given Bad Ballots

• 03/08/04 - E-voting not living up to campaign promises

• 03/08/04 - Mishaps run deeper than new machines

• 03/04/04 - Few problems reported at L.A. County polls

• 03/04/04 - Electronic voting devices lack federal OK and disrupt votes for thousands

• 03/04/04 - Electronic S.J. ballot cards lost

• 03/04/04 - E-voting problems drive voters away

• 03/04/04 - Election officials report some e-voting glitches

• 03/04/04 - ACLU calls for probe into election problems

• 03/03/04 - Glitches Hinder Casting of Votes

• 03/02/04 - Mechanical problems stymie voting

• 03/02/04 - Scattered e-voting problems anger computer scientists

• 03/02/04 - Technical glitches keep some from casting ballots

• 03/02/04 - Technical Problems Reported in E-Voting

• 03/01/04 - Computer-voting critic loses poll-worker job

• 02/27/04 - Sacramento News & Review profiles e-voting security activist

• 02/27/04 - Missouri Secretary of State Announces Paper Trail Requirement

• 02/24/04 - Study - 29 percent of the electorate will use electronic voting systems in 2004

• 02/20/04 - Wired News - E-Voting Activists: Vote Absentee

• 02/17/04 - Top elections official accuses counties of protecting voting 'turf'

• 02/10/04 - E-Vote Machines Drop More Ballots

• 02/10/04 - Dems: Web voting a success

• 02/09/04 - California seeks to improve electronic-voting security

• 02/06/04 - Computer miscounts? Not likely in New Hampshire

• 02/06/04 - Getting zapped for vote

• 02/06/04 - Rigged election called possible

• 01/27/04 - All of Arizona gets new voting gear

• 01/27/04 - Printed-ballot case to get early hearing

• 01/27/04 - Voting machine proposals kept from public view

• 01/21/04 - Panel calls for revote in Senate District 29 (Mississippi)

• 01/20/04 - San Joaquin voting machines in question

• 01/20/04 - Diebold Gets Stay in California

• 01/20/04 - Probe of voting machines focuses on software upgrades

• 01/16/04 - Officials defend new vote machines

• 01/13/04 - Protesters decry county's use of touchscreen voting system

• 01/13/04 - SJ registrar rips rules on voting receipts

• 01/08/04 - New System no easy touch for 134 voters in Broward

2003

• 12/23/03 - Miami Herald endorses voter verified paper trail

• 12/21/03 - County's voting machines aren't federally approved

• 12/19/03 - Diebold e-voting system not approved by feds

• 12/17/03 - E-Voting Undermined by Sloppiness

• 12/17/03 - Untested Software Used in Elections

• 12/12/03 - Nevada Secretary of State to implement voter verified paper trail by 2004

• 12/12/03 - San Francisco Chronicle endorses voter verified paper trail

• 12/12/03 - LA Times Editorial endorses voter verified paper trail

• 12/10/03 - San Bernardino County Sun - News

• 12/09/03 - New York Times editorial supports voter verified paper trail

 

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