Florida to give paper receipt in 2008 US vote
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Florida, whose ballot fiasco delayed for weeks the outcome of the 2000 elections, will replace by 2008 voting machines that do not leave a paper trail, Governor Charlie Crist has said.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote as early as Thursday on a bill that would require a paper record for electronic voting machines. Representative Rush Holt's Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act, which has 216 cosponsors in the 435-member House, would require that all e-voting machines used in the November 2008 U.S. elections be accompanied by a voter-verified paper ballot. E-voting critics have been calling for paper-trail ballots for several years, arguing there's no way to audit e-voting machines without them. Holt, a New Jersey Democrat, said on his Web site that he's pleased the House is set to move forward with the legislation. His bill would require random audits of voting results in 3 percent of all U.S. precincts, and it would prohibit e-voting machines that include wireless or Internet connections. While groups like Common Cause and VerifiedVoting.org have called for paper trails, groups like the National Federation of the Blind have resisted efforts to slow the adoption of e-voting machines, saying e-voting allows blind people to vote without assistance for the first time. The Holt bill faces several obstacles to becoming law, said Matt Zimmerman, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which supports the bill. "It is not at all clear whether the bill will pass or, even if it does, whether a substantively similar companion bill will then pass the Senate," Zimmerman wrote on the EFF blog. "Like it or not, with election officials arguing that they're running out of time to implement wholesale changes, this likely amounts to Congress's only attempt to make any serious improvements to the nation's election procedures ahead of the 2008 presidential election." Common Cause sent an alert to members Wednesday morning, urging them to contact lawmakers in support of the bill, said Mary Boyle, a Common Cause spokeswoman. "This is the last chance for Congress to ensure that ballots are backed by paper records in the critical 2008 presidential election," she said.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Oct. 16, 2004 - Florida set new guidelines for recounting touch-screen ballots in close elections, but voter-rights groups said the court-ordered decision doesn&#39;t go nearly far enough to ensure a fair election.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. While attention focuses on Florida, where election chaos reigned four years ago, voters in many other states also have begun voting.
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Lawsuits, missing absentee ballots and  accusations of bias -- from afar Tuesday's presidential  election in Florida already looks like the Third World-style  fiasco of 2000 that everyone wanted to avoid.
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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist  on Wednesday said he would propose abandoning touch-screen  voting machines adopted after the disputed 2000 presidential  race and replacing them with devices that provide a paper  record.
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Washington - The problems that plagued the 2000 American presidential election are likely to be repeated because &quot;basic international requirements&quot; for a fair vote are missing in Florida, former president and veteran elections monitor Jimmy Carter has
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Federal Election Commission lawyers proposed Friday that presidential campaigns be allowed to use limited individual donations to cover the costs of recounts like the one that occurred in Florida in 2000.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Voters began casting ballots Monday in Florida, encountering long lines at the polls and a few ballot box glitches four years after the 2000 presidential election fiasco...
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President Bush may have received up to 260,000 more votes than he should have in Florida counties that used touch-screen voting machines, according to an academic analysis. Researchers call on Florida to examine the results. By Kim Zetter.
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Two Democrats proposed legislation to reimburse states for printing paper ballots in case of problems with electronic voting machines on Nov. 7.
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Ralph Nader can be listed on Florida ballots in the US presidential election, the state's electoral chief says.
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U.S. Postal Service investigators on  Wednesday were trying to find thousands of absentee ballots  which should have been delivered to voters in one of Florida's  most populous counties, officials said.
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New absentee ballots will be sent to voters in one of Florida&#39;s most populous counties to replace thousands that disappeared in the run-up to Tuesday&#39;s US elections, an election official said on Thursday.
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Lawmakers have come full circle after devoting more money to high-tech voting machines following the 2000 election debacle in Florida. They now say a return to the paper trails of old is the key to an honest vote, exasperating state election officials.
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Eight days before Election Day, a federal judge ruled Monday that Florida's touch-screen voting machines do not have to produce a paper record for use in case a recount becomes necessary.
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Ex-employees of company called Voters Outreach of America AKA America Votes claim that voter registrations in Las Vegas have been trashed.     The article recommends that people make sure they're registered to vote. If you're a victim of the fraudulent voter registration that is rife in the prelude to this election you should insist on your right to make a provisional (or affidavit) vote at the polls as guaranteed by the Help America Vote Act of 2002.    Voters Outreach of America has reportedly moved on to Oregon presumably to do the same thing.