He wanted every vote to matter; Athan Gibbs, Sr. dies in crash
The Tennessean
Holly Edwards
After more than 1 million votes went uncounted in the last presidential election, Athan Gibbs Sr. devoted his life to making sure voters in future elections would know their votes mattered.
The enterprising 57-year-old saw his invention of the TruVote vote-casting system as nothing less than the key to social justice and democracy in America.
As family members and business partners gathered at the TruVote office yesterday morning to mourn Mr. Gibbs' death, they vowed that his dream would not die with him.
Mr. Gibbs was killed about 10:30 a.m. Friday in a car crash on Interstate 65 near Eighth Avenue North as he drove from his north Nashville home to his downtown office at Tennessee State University's Business Incubation Center.
Metro police said Mr. Gibbs lost control of his Chevy Blazer after he cut in front of an 18-wheeler and the two vehicles collided. The Blazer rolled several times in the southbound lanes, went over the retaining wall and came to rest on its roof on the northbound side. Gibbs was ejected, police said.
Before his sudden death, friends and family said, Mr. Gibbs worked tirelessly on the TruVote system and, with backing from Microsoft Inc., was marketing his invention nationwide.
''He loved God, he loved people and he loved democracy, and we're going to keep his dream going,'' said Mr. Gibbs' 25-year-old son, Jonathan, who worked with his father on the project. ''It's more important than ever now to make sure his vision becomes a reality.''
Mr. Gibbs spent about three years and roughly $2 million — including thousands of dollars from his own bank account — to develop and market the electronic vote-casting system. TruVote allows voters to touch their candidates' names on a computer screen and receive receipts of their vote at the end of the process. They can then go to a Web site, punch in their voter validation number and make sure their vote was recorded.
U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, a Democrat who represents Davidson, the eastern half of Cheatham and the western half of Wilson County in Congress, said the TruVote system was ''one of the most promising technologies in the world for fixing democracies.''
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''We in the U.S. have one of the worst voting records in the world, and Athan was out to fix that,'' he said. ''A lot of people have ideas but never carry them out. Athan was following through on his dream, and his energy level was phenomenal. I don't think he ever slept.''
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Death of a patriot: No more
Bob Fitrakis
The Free Press
March 17, 2004
The subject line on yesterday’s email read: “Another mysterious accident solves a Bush problem. Athan Gibbs dead, Diebold lives.” The attached news story briefly described the untimely Friday, March 12th death of perhaps America’s most influential advocate of a verified voting paper trail in the era of touch screen computer voting. Gibbs, an accountant for more than 30 years and the inventor of the TruVote system, died when his vehicle collided with an 18-wheeled truck which rolled his Chevy Blazer several times and forced it over the highway retaining wall where it came to rest on its roof.
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Gibbs’ death bears heightened scrutiny because of the way he lived his life after the 2000 Florida election debacle. I interviewed Athan Gibbs in January of this year. “I’ve been an accountant, an auditor, for more than thirty years. Electronic voting machines that don’t supply a paper trail go against every principle of accounting and auditing that’s being taught in American business schools,” he insisted.
“These machines are set up to provide paper trails. No business in America would buy a machine that didn’t provide a paper trail to audit and verify its transaction. Now, they want the people to purchase machines that you can’t audit? It’s absurd.”
Gibbs was in Columbus, Ohio proudly displaying his TruVote machine that offered a “VVPAT, that’s a voter verified paper audit trail” he noted.
Gibbs also suggested that I look into the “people behind the other machines.” He offered that “Diebold and ES&S are real interesting and all Republicans. If you’re an investigative reporter go ahead and investigate. You’ll find some interesting material.”
Gibbs’ TruVote machine is a marvel. After voters touch the screen, a paper ballot prints out under plexiglass and once the voter compares it to his actual vote and approves it, the ballot drops into a lockbox and is issued a numbered receipt. The voter’s receipt allows the track his particular vote to make sure that it was transferred from the polling place to the election tabulation center.
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Every American concerned with democracy should pledge to make this happen. To beat back the rush for state governments to purchase privatized, partisan and unreliable electronic voting machines without verified paper trails.
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25 March 2004
18 March 2004
Harvard Group Plans to Watch Over Polls
By JAY LINDSAY
Associated Press Writer
March 16, 2004
BOSTON -- A group founded by Harvard law students announced plans Tuesday to send observers to 49 states this November to help ensure voters in the fall election are not improperly turned away from the polls.
The group, called Just Democracy, plans to dispatch at least 1,000 students from across the country to polls in every state with a law school, which includes all but Alaska.
Student leaders want to help ease the bureaucratic mistakes or ignorance of the law they say were to blame for much of the confusion in the disputed 2000 presidential election.
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By JAY LINDSAY
Associated Press Writer
March 16, 2004
BOSTON -- A group founded by Harvard law students announced plans Tuesday to send observers to 49 states this November to help ensure voters in the fall election are not improperly turned away from the polls.
The group, called Just Democracy, plans to dispatch at least 1,000 students from across the country to polls in every state with a law school, which includes all but Alaska.
Student leaders want to help ease the bureaucratic mistakes or ignorance of the law they say were to blame for much of the confusion in the disputed 2000 presidential election.
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17 March 2004
289 blank ballots found in Palm Beach County's electronic voting machines
By Kathy Bushouse
March 17 2004
At least 289 Palm Beach County residents cast blank votes in the March 9 Democratic presidential primary election -- even though it was the only race on their ballots.
Overall, fewer than 1 percent of voters who were choosing among presidential candidates submitted blank ballots, according to a South Florida Sun-Sentinel computer-assisted analysis of voting results. The phenomenon, known as undervoting, has happened for decades but now gets extra scrutiny after South Florida's election problems in 2000 and 2002.
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By Kathy Bushouse
March 17 2004
At least 289 Palm Beach County residents cast blank votes in the March 9 Democratic presidential primary election -- even though it was the only race on their ballots.
Overall, fewer than 1 percent of voters who were choosing among presidential candidates submitted blank ballots, according to a South Florida Sun-Sentinel computer-assisted analysis of voting results. The phenomenon, known as undervoting, has happened for decades but now gets extra scrutiny after South Florida's election problems in 2000 and 2002.
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15 March 2004
HILLARY: BEWARE OF VOTING MACHINES MADE OF STEAL
March 11, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton said yesterday voters in New York and elsewhere may not be able to trust future election results, charging the company that makes high-tech voting machines may skew results to help Republicans win.
Clinton said that unless electronic voting machines also produce a paper trail, GOP-leaning corporations might program the equipment to help Republicans steal elections.
"We have a system that is vulnerable to attack that provides no real accountability to insure accuracy and an e-voting manufacturer demonstrating partisanship," Clinton charged.
She proposed legislation requiring that the machines print a paper record of all votes.
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March 11, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton said yesterday voters in New York and elsewhere may not be able to trust future election results, charging the company that makes high-tech voting machines may skew results to help Republicans win.
Clinton said that unless electronic voting machines also produce a paper trail, GOP-leaning corporations might program the equipment to help Republicans steal elections.
"We have a system that is vulnerable to attack that provides no real accountability to insure accuracy and an e-voting manufacturer demonstrating partisanship," Clinton charged.
She proposed legislation requiring that the machines print a paper record of all votes.
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Legislators Urge E-Voting Halt
Kim Zetter
Mar. 11, 2004
SACRAMENTO -- California legislators said on Thursday they want to stop the use of all paperless electronic voting machines in the state, fearing the same type of fiasco that plagued Florida in the 2000 election.
State Sens. Don Perata (D-Oakland) and Ross Johnson (R-Irvine), the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate election committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Kevin Shelley urging him to decertify all paperless touch-screen voting machines before the general election.
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Kim Zetter
Mar. 11, 2004
SACRAMENTO -- California legislators said on Thursday they want to stop the use of all paperless electronic voting machines in the state, fearing the same type of fiasco that plagued Florida in the 2000 election.
State Sens. Don Perata (D-Oakland) and Ross Johnson (R-Irvine), the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate election committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Kevin Shelley urging him to decertify all paperless touch-screen voting machines before the general election.
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12 March 2004
Sens. Push Law for Receipt of Votes Cast
Associated Press
Wednesday 10 March 2004
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Democratic senators often mentioned as possible candidates for the vice presidential spot on the 2004 ticket talked voting Wednesday -- but not for themselves. Sens. Bob Graham of Florida and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York are pushing legislation that would ensure a printed receipt of votes cast on new touch-screen computer terminals, arguing it will restore voter confidence in the election process.
They both insisted the move had nothing to do with future political aspirations -- and everything to do with past political confusion.
"We can't ever go through what we went through in 2000," said Clinton, referring to the drawn-out recount process in Florida that was eventually settled by the Supreme Court.
To prevent a repeat -- and the hard feelings that followed -- Clinton and Graham have proposed legislation that would require all computer voting machines to produce a paper record that can be checked after the vote should disputes arise. It also would require that the change be made before the November election.
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Associated Press
Wednesday 10 March 2004
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Democratic senators often mentioned as possible candidates for the vice presidential spot on the 2004 ticket talked voting Wednesday -- but not for themselves. Sens. Bob Graham of Florida and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York are pushing legislation that would ensure a printed receipt of votes cast on new touch-screen computer terminals, arguing it will restore voter confidence in the election process.
They both insisted the move had nothing to do with future political aspirations -- and everything to do with past political confusion.
"We can't ever go through what we went through in 2000," said Clinton, referring to the drawn-out recount process in Florida that was eventually settled by the Supreme Court.
To prevent a repeat -- and the hard feelings that followed -- Clinton and Graham have proposed legislation that would require all computer voting machines to produce a paper record that can be checked after the vote should disputes arise. It also would require that the change be made before the November election.
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Florida County Orders Recount in Primary
CNN
10 March 2004
(CNN) -- Election officials in Bay County, Florida, plan to recount all of the almost 20,000 ballots cast in Tuesday's presidential primary because of vote-counting irregularities, election Supervisor Mark Andersen said Wednesday.
"I'm not the happiest camper," Andersen said hours before the recount was scheduled to get under way. "We're going to redo everything."
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CNN
10 March 2004
(CNN) -- Election officials in Bay County, Florida, plan to recount all of the almost 20,000 ballots cast in Tuesday's presidential primary because of vote-counting irregularities, election Supervisor Mark Andersen said Wednesday.
"I'm not the happiest camper," Andersen said hours before the recount was scheduled to get under way. "We're going to redo everything."
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11 March 2004
Black Box Backlash
Bev Harris of Renton created a firestorm with her national Internet campaign against electronic voting. Now she's trying to persuade people in the real world that their democracy is on the line.
by George Howland Jr.
March 10 - 16, 2004
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Since September 2002, Harris has battled a U.S. senator, large corporations, and election officials across the country in her effort to ensure our votes are counted fairly and accurately. At first, she focused on the problems with computer voting. Since then, the name of her Web site (www.blackboxvoting.org) and her book devoted to the subject—Black Box Voting—have become shorthand for concerns about computers and elections. Moreover, her astounding discoveries on the subject have resulted in damning research by distinguished computer-science professors and numerous articles in major newspapers across the country. Secretaries of state, including Republican Sam Reed of Washington and Democrat Kevin Shelley of California, have responded by proposing key changes in how we will cast our ballots in the future.
HARRIS HAS BECOME a media darling. A major profile is due in Vanity Fair, and her cell phone rings constantly with requests for interviews and documentation, from TV stations and newspapers around the country. Democratic presidential candidates John Edwards, Howard Dean, and Dennis Kucinich all mentioned concerns about electronic voting during this year's campaign. Former first lady and current U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., are sponsoring national legislation responding to the issues raised by Harris and her allies.
Now she has broadened her critique of election security to include subjects like voting over the Internet and the integrity of the software that counts paper ballots across the nation, including those in King County. More importantly, she wants to focus on solutions to the problems she has uncovered. To do that, she and her allies are taking what has largely been an online movement and bringing it into the real world.
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Bev Harris of Renton created a firestorm with her national Internet campaign against electronic voting. Now she's trying to persuade people in the real world that their democracy is on the line.
by George Howland Jr.
March 10 - 16, 2004
--snip
Since September 2002, Harris has battled a U.S. senator, large corporations, and election officials across the country in her effort to ensure our votes are counted fairly and accurately. At first, she focused on the problems with computer voting. Since then, the name of her Web site (www.blackboxvoting.org) and her book devoted to the subject—Black Box Voting—have become shorthand for concerns about computers and elections. Moreover, her astounding discoveries on the subject have resulted in damning research by distinguished computer-science professors and numerous articles in major newspapers across the country. Secretaries of state, including Republican Sam Reed of Washington and Democrat Kevin Shelley of California, have responded by proposing key changes in how we will cast our ballots in the future.
HARRIS HAS BECOME a media darling. A major profile is due in Vanity Fair, and her cell phone rings constantly with requests for interviews and documentation, from TV stations and newspapers around the country. Democratic presidential candidates John Edwards, Howard Dean, and Dennis Kucinich all mentioned concerns about electronic voting during this year's campaign. Former first lady and current U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., are sponsoring national legislation responding to the issues raised by Harris and her allies.
Now she has broadened her critique of election security to include subjects like voting over the Internet and the integrity of the software that counts paper ballots across the nation, including those in King County. More importantly, she wants to focus on solutions to the problems she has uncovered. To do that, she and her allies are taking what has largely been an online movement and bringing it into the real world.
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Supreme Court's Gag Rule on Us
'The Powerful Have Only Gotten More Powerful'
Nat Hentoff
The Village Voice
January 23rd, 2004
In covering the Supreme Court's historic cutting down of the First Amendment right of individual Americans who belong to independent organizations to get their views expressed, the press has greatly underestimated the effect of the court's banning these groups' television and radio ads close to federal primaries and general elections.
The rule now is that these ads on social and political issues cannot be on the air within 30 days of a primary or 60 days before a general election. The law will be violated, says the Supreme Court, even if "advertisements do not urge the viewer [or listener] to vote for or against a candidate in so many words [but] they are no less clearly intended to influence the election."
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"Beginning 30 days before the first primary or caucus . . . December 14, 2003 . . . Section 203 [of McCain-Feingold] will criminalize broadcast references to the President in a series of geographic blackouts that will continuously ripple through the Nation, blocking every broadcast outlet, wherever located, whose signal can reach 50,000 persons in an upcoming primary or caucus state until June 8, 2004.
"This blackout will become national in scope on July 31, 30 days before the August 30-September 2 Republican National Convention . . . and it will then continue without interruption throughout the remaining 60 days until the November 2 election. Thus, from July 31, 2004 until the election, it will be a crime for a union, corporation, or incorporated non-profit organization to pay to broadcast any 'reference' to the President by 'name,' 'photograph,' 'drawing' or other 'unambiguous' means anywhere in the United States."
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'The Powerful Have Only Gotten More Powerful'
Nat Hentoff
The Village Voice
January 23rd, 2004
In covering the Supreme Court's historic cutting down of the First Amendment right of individual Americans who belong to independent organizations to get their views expressed, the press has greatly underestimated the effect of the court's banning these groups' television and radio ads close to federal primaries and general elections.
The rule now is that these ads on social and political issues cannot be on the air within 30 days of a primary or 60 days before a general election. The law will be violated, says the Supreme Court, even if "advertisements do not urge the viewer [or listener] to vote for or against a candidate in so many words [but] they are no less clearly intended to influence the election."
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"Beginning 30 days before the first primary or caucus . . . December 14, 2003 . . . Section 203 [of McCain-Feingold] will criminalize broadcast references to the President in a series of geographic blackouts that will continuously ripple through the Nation, blocking every broadcast outlet, wherever located, whose signal can reach 50,000 persons in an upcoming primary or caucus state until June 8, 2004.
"This blackout will become national in scope on July 31, 30 days before the August 30-September 2 Republican National Convention . . . and it will then continue without interruption throughout the remaining 60 days until the November 2 election. Thus, from July 31, 2004 until the election, it will be a crime for a union, corporation, or incorporated non-profit organization to pay to broadcast any 'reference' to the President by 'name,' 'photograph,' 'drawing' or other 'unambiguous' means anywhere in the United States."
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Bush Campaign Seeks Probe of Election Ads
By LIZ SIDOTI and SHARON THEIMER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
March 09, 2004
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush's re-election campaign says it will ask the Federal Election Commission to investigate a Democratic-leaning group that will air $4.5 million worth of TV ads against Bush, beginning Wednesday.
The Media Fund's initial two-week ad run in 17 competitive states will include commercials that criticize Bush's policies and priorities, and mention the president by name.
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By LIZ SIDOTI and SHARON THEIMER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
March 09, 2004
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush's re-election campaign says it will ask the Federal Election Commission to investigate a Democratic-leaning group that will air $4.5 million worth of TV ads against Bush, beginning Wednesday.
The Media Fund's initial two-week ad run in 17 competitive states will include commercials that criticize Bush's policies and priorities, and mention the president by name.
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International Election Monitors Take on Florida
Mon Mar 8, 2004
By Michael Peltier
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - An international group that usually monitors elections in developing democracies said Monday it would take up posts at Florida precincts in November in hopes of averting another debacle when voters pick the next U.S. president.
Four years after Florida became the object of international ridicule, officials for the Catholic group Pax Christi USA will place monitors from 30 countries at polls in four Florida counties that were at the center of the 2000 U.S. presidential election dispute.
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Mon Mar 8, 2004
By Michael Peltier
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - An international group that usually monitors elections in developing democracies said Monday it would take up posts at Florida precincts in November in hopes of averting another debacle when voters pick the next U.S. president.
Four years after Florida became the object of international ridicule, officials for the Catholic group Pax Christi USA will place monitors from 30 countries at polls in four Florida counties that were at the center of the 2000 U.S. presidential election dispute.
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2000 recount still on the minds of Kerry supporters
KEN THOMAS
Associated Press
Mar. 08, 2004
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - The 2000 recount may be history for some voters, but for Nancy Geneivive the 36-day struggle still brings to mind two words: stolen election.
So when the Coral Springs artist tossed presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry a question Monday about his plans to challenge President Bush, she summed it up this way, "What can we do to prevent him from stealing the election again?"
Kerry encountered Floridians still sore about the disputed election at a town hall meeting with about 500 supporters in Broward County, a Democratic bastion with serious voting irregularities in 2000. Bush defeated Democrat Al Gore by 537 votes in Florida after the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a state recount.
Kerry said he would assemble a legal team to guard against any irregularities in Florida this fall, focusing on problematic precincts and seeking injunctions where necessary to guarantee voting rights.
"I guarantee, not only do we want a record level of turnout to vote, we want to guarantee that every vote is counted," he said to cheers. "I don't think we ought to have any vote cast in America that cannot be traced and properly recounted."
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KEN THOMAS
Associated Press
Mar. 08, 2004
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - The 2000 recount may be history for some voters, but for Nancy Geneivive the 36-day struggle still brings to mind two words: stolen election.
So when the Coral Springs artist tossed presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry a question Monday about his plans to challenge President Bush, she summed it up this way, "What can we do to prevent him from stealing the election again?"
Kerry encountered Floridians still sore about the disputed election at a town hall meeting with about 500 supporters in Broward County, a Democratic bastion with serious voting irregularities in 2000. Bush defeated Democrat Al Gore by 537 votes in Florida after the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a state recount.
Kerry said he would assemble a legal team to guard against any irregularities in Florida this fall, focusing on problematic precincts and seeking injunctions where necessary to guarantee voting rights.
"I guarantee, not only do we want a record level of turnout to vote, we want to guarantee that every vote is counted," he said to cheers. "I don't think we ought to have any vote cast in America that cannot be traced and properly recounted."
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California Voters Given Wrong Ballots
Mar 9, 2004
LOS ANGELES - Approximately 7,000 Orange County voters were given the wrong ballots in last week's election by poll workers unfamiliar with a new electronic voting system, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
As a result, many people voted for candidates outside their legislative districts, the newspaper said.
However, "from what we have seen so far, we do not believe any of these instances where people voted in precincts they shouldn't have voted in would have affected any of the races," said Steve Rodermund, Orange County's registrar of voters.
Some precincts in the southern California county recorded more votes than they have voters and others had unusually low turnouts, according to the Times, which analyzed county election data. Five of the county's six congressional races, four of its five state Senate elections and five of its nine Assembly contests were affected, it said.
Elections officials said some poll workers gave voters incorrect computer access codes, which resulted in voters accessing electronic ballots for elections outside their districts.
An exact number of incorrect votes is impossible to determine because of steps taken to ensure voter confidentiality, said David Hart, chairman of Texas-based Hart InterCivic, which manufactured Orange County's voting system.
Under the new electronic system, voters arriving at their polling places were given tickets with their precinct number and party affiliation. They handed the tickets to poll workers who checked them against computer records and provided four-digit access codes to use in accessing the proper electronic ballots.
Several poll workers said they didn't know more than one precinct had been assigned to their polling places, however, and thus gave some people the wrong access codes.
"I was very upset about it," said Shirley Green, an Anaheim voter who discovered she received the wrong legislative district code.
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Mar 9, 2004
LOS ANGELES - Approximately 7,000 Orange County voters were given the wrong ballots in last week's election by poll workers unfamiliar with a new electronic voting system, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
As a result, many people voted for candidates outside their legislative districts, the newspaper said.
However, "from what we have seen so far, we do not believe any of these instances where people voted in precincts they shouldn't have voted in would have affected any of the races," said Steve Rodermund, Orange County's registrar of voters.
Some precincts in the southern California county recorded more votes than they have voters and others had unusually low turnouts, according to the Times, which analyzed county election data. Five of the county's six congressional races, four of its five state Senate elections and five of its nine Assembly contests were affected, it said.
Elections officials said some poll workers gave voters incorrect computer access codes, which resulted in voters accessing electronic ballots for elections outside their districts.
An exact number of incorrect votes is impossible to determine because of steps taken to ensure voter confidentiality, said David Hart, chairman of Texas-based Hart InterCivic, which manufactured Orange County's voting system.
Under the new electronic system, voters arriving at their polling places were given tickets with their precinct number and party affiliation. They handed the tickets to poll workers who checked them against computer records and provided four-digit access codes to use in accessing the proper electronic ballots.
Several poll workers said they didn't know more than one precinct had been assigned to their polling places, however, and thus gave some people the wrong access codes.
"I was very upset about it," said Shirley Green, an Anaheim voter who discovered she received the wrong legislative district code.
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Lawsuit challenges paperless voting system
By George Bennett, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 9, 2004
WEST PALM BEACH -- After being rejected in state court last month, U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler turned to federal court Monday and filed another lawsuit challenging the paperless electronic voting systems used by Palm Beach County and 14 other Florida counties.
Wexler, D-Delray Beach, claims paperless voting violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution and flies in the face of the U.S. Supreme Court's Bush vs. Gore ruling because voters in some counties can have their votes manually recounted while voters in other counties cannot.
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By George Bennett, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 9, 2004
WEST PALM BEACH -- After being rejected in state court last month, U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler turned to federal court Monday and filed another lawsuit challenging the paperless electronic voting systems used by Palm Beach County and 14 other Florida counties.
Wexler, D-Delray Beach, claims paperless voting violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution and flies in the face of the U.S. Supreme Court's Bush vs. Gore ruling because voters in some counties can have their votes manually recounted while voters in other counties cannot.
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E-Voting: No Chads, But ...
LOS ANGELES, March 9, 2004
Today's presidential primaries in the South are not only a dry run for the issues in November -- but also for new high-tech voting machines.
Judging from their use in other states so far, touch-screen voting may not be foolproof -- or tamperproof.
Ads promoting computerized voting make fun of the 2000 electoral mess in Florida.
"This chad. I can't tell if it's hanging. That's no way to vote,'' says one commercial.
But as CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, experts nationwide have found serious security problems with the new touch-screen voting systems.
"If there's another close election, we might not be able to do any kind of meaningful recount," says Rice University computer scientist Dan Wallach. "We might not be able to really figure out who won the election."
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LOS ANGELES, March 9, 2004
Today's presidential primaries in the South are not only a dry run for the issues in November -- but also for new high-tech voting machines.
Judging from their use in other states so far, touch-screen voting may not be foolproof -- or tamperproof.
Ads promoting computerized voting make fun of the 2000 electoral mess in Florida.
"This chad. I can't tell if it's hanging. That's no way to vote,'' says one commercial.
But as CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, experts nationwide have found serious security problems with the new touch-screen voting systems.
"If there's another close election, we might not be able to do any kind of meaningful recount," says Rice University computer scientist Dan Wallach. "We might not be able to really figure out who won the election."
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Election Problems Stir Bad 2000 Memories
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 10, 2004
Florida elections workers counted ballots by hand -- again -- on Wednesday after improperly coded ballots appeared to give former presidential candidate Rep. Dick Gephardt a decisive win in one Panhandle county.
When the count was completed late in the day, Sen. John Kerry was shown to be the easy victor in Bay County, just as he was statewide in Tuesday's Democratic primary.
On the other end of the country, a report Wednesday found that a computer battery problem affected about 40 percent of polling stations in San Diego County, Calif., delaying and frustrating voters who lined up to cast electronic ballots in last week's primary.
The problem occurred during the largest rollout of an electronic voting system by any local jurisdiction in the nation. Officials believe an unknown number of people did not cast votes because of the frustration caused by the malfunction.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 10, 2004
Florida elections workers counted ballots by hand -- again -- on Wednesday after improperly coded ballots appeared to give former presidential candidate Rep. Dick Gephardt a decisive win in one Panhandle county.
When the count was completed late in the day, Sen. John Kerry was shown to be the easy victor in Bay County, just as he was statewide in Tuesday's Democratic primary.
On the other end of the country, a report Wednesday found that a computer battery problem affected about 40 percent of polling stations in San Diego County, Calif., delaying and frustrating voters who lined up to cast electronic ballots in last week's primary.
The problem occurred during the largest rollout of an electronic voting system by any local jurisdiction in the nation. Officials believe an unknown number of people did not cast votes because of the frustration caused by the malfunction.
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Election panel OKs Illegal software
Mary Beth Schneider
March 11, 2004
The Indiana Election Commission voted late Wednesday to let four counties use illegal voting software after hearing desperate appeals by county clerks who feared primary election disasters if they didn't get help.
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Mary Beth Schneider
March 11, 2004
The Indiana Election Commission voted late Wednesday to let four counties use illegal voting software after hearing desperate appeals by county clerks who feared primary election disasters if they didn't get help.
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