Maryland Judge Rules In Favor Of State In E-Voting Suit
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Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Joseph Manck has rejected a challenge to Maryland's electronic voting system.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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A federal judge Sunday denied the state Republican Party's bid to force Washington's most populous county to stop counting some ballots in the recount of the governor's race.
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The November general election can proceed in Colorado despite flaws in the process of testing and certifying e-voting machines, a state judge rules.
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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Duval County to install special voting machines for blind and disabled voters in time for the November election.
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A federal judge who once struck down Georgia's voter identification law has approved a revised version, dismissing a lawsuit aimed at stopping the state from enforcing the statute.
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Access cards needed for Diebold Systems e-voting hardware were not initially available in Montgomery County, Md., on Tuesday morning. The result: Primary Day voters had to use improvised paper ballots or give up entirely.
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The state's highest court on Tuesday rejected a demand that citizens who do not trust touch-screen voting machines be given the option of using a paper ballot and that Maryland be required to take additional steps to protect the security of the Nov. 2 election.
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A judge has delayed his ruling allowing felons to vote until after the Nov. 7 general election and until the state Supreme Court can review the issue.
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Election officials said a new rule barring hand recounts in 15 counties with touchscreen voting systems will remain in place until after Tuesday's primary &#151; despite a judge's invalidation of the rule.
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Florida will not be forced to create a paper record in case of recounts in elections on touch-screen voting machines, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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Adam Bigenho, tech guy for the Montgomery County Board of Elections, spent part of yesterday training election judges how to match up computer plugs at polling places Monday night as they prepare for the next day's primary.
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A federal judge rejected a lawsuit aimed at forcing Florida authorities to affix printers to touch-screen voting machines, but admitted it would be better to have a paper vote record.
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Arizona began allowing voters to register online in 2004. Three years later, Washington became the second state to do so.
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Florida's attempts to avoid a repeat of the 2000 election fiasco took another hit late Monday when federal judges ordered a lower court to hear a lawsuit demanding that electronic voting machines be equipped to print receipts for voters.
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ORLANDO, Florida -- A US district judge ruled Monday that Florida election officials have no legal obligation to provide voter-verifiable paper trails for electronic voting machines, but it would be better if they did.
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Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) put forward legislation last night that would allow voters to decide in a referendum whether Maryland should legalize slot machine gambling at five racetrack and non-track locations, a compromise that legislative leaders said could finally resolve an issue that has divided...