Article: Voting system flaws hurt where it counts ; Eight years after the debacle in Florida, doubts remain at American polling places.

Article: County switching to paper ballots: Registrar of voters will have to purchase new voting booths.
Daily Press (Victorville, CA);  August 22, 2007 ;     422 words ......s touch-screen voting machines, the registrar...will revert to paper ballots. Nearly 3,500 electronic voting machines will go unused...that we go back to paper ballots at the polls, said...decertified Sequoia voting machines after a top-to...vendor of ...

Article: ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES:JIM ADLER
Congressional Testimony;  July 20, 2004 ;     700+ words ......falling back to paper ballots - the same paper ballots that have been...better than paper ballots and still retain...of electronic voting machines. Just because...going back to paper ballots. There are other...The call for paper ballots is ...

Article: Paper ballots return to polls, but only as a backup
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  May 15, 2007 ;     482 words ...Paper ballots will be at each...challenging electronic voting machines stalled in appeals...computerized voting machines. At least one...stocked with paper ballots, requiring some...which the lever voting machines were not used...County, which uses ...

Article: Counties opt for paper ballots; Auditors want to know more about touch-screens
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  July 13, 2004 ;     451 words ......are sticking to paper ballots for the November...touch-screen voting machines. Iowa secretary...standards to upgrade voting machines. The new standards...Buren county uses paper ballots. Under the changes...of electronic voting machines." About 50 ...

Article: Rush is on for paper ballots; Officials fear electronic voting machines are vulnerable to tampering.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  January 1, 2008 ;     329 words ......of their electronic voting machines, forcing officials...scramble to return to the paper ballots they abandoned after...security on touch-screen voting machines is inadequate. Testers...machines that count paper ballots electronically. In...of the electronic ...

Article: Broward moves ahead with paper-ballot voting machines: Some question buying machines from ES&S.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL);  September 25, 2007 ;     497 words ......touch-screen voting machines with an optical-sc...Software to read paper ballots beginning next...count to the paper ballots. The optical...year, ES&S voting machines in Sarasota reported...touch-screen voting machines following the...voters will mark ...

Article: Several States Scrap Electronic Voting; Security, Programming Flaws Cause Return to Paper Ballots
The Washington Post;  January 20, 2008 ;     583 words ......its electronic voting machines, forcing officials...return to the paper ballots they abandoned...on touch-screen voting machines is inadequate...machines that count paper ballots electronically...who conduct the voting -- don't know...ballots or cast paper ...

Article: New voting machines.(BROWARD COUNTY)
Florida Trend;  August 1, 2007 ;     24 words ...County commissioners opted to buy new voting machines that use paper ballots to replace 4,500 touch-screen machines. The switch will cost almost $10 million.

Article: Count down: will electronic voting machines solve the kinds of problems that occurred in the 2000 election?(Physical)
Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication;  October 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......use electronic voting machines. The machines...Two types of paper ballots are common. The...will read their paper ballots correctly. What...Touch-screen voting machines resolve many...support it [over] paper ballots. A HACKER'S DREAM? Touch-screen ...

Article: Saline County, Kan., replaces paper ballots with voting machines.
Salina Journal (Salina, Kansas);  November 9, 2005 ;     582 words ......has handed out paper ballots to people at...switches to voting machines next year, said...out electronic voting machines being offered...to lose the paper ballots, Morris said...using electronic voting machines, Merriman said...County now uses paper ...

Article: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PROFESSOR PFAFFENBERGER REVIEWS HISTORY OF VOTING MACHINES
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 1, 2008 ;     609 words ......electronic "touch-screen" voting machines boils down to this...employs hand-marked paper ballots that resemble standardized...ironic. "The first voting machines were introduced in...of party-supplied paper ballots led to the rapid...government-printed paper ...

Article: Problems with voting machines had no effect on Ward 4 outcome
Progress-Index, The Petersburg, Va.;  November 6, 2008 ;     235 words ...PETERSBURG -- An Election day problem with voting machines in Ward 4 was quickly discovered and fixed, and...Registrar Dawn Williams said that the problem with voting machines in Ward 4 not displaying candidates for local...reported by a voter. Once the issue was discovered, paper ...

Article: COLUMN: Don't fear electronic voting machines
University Wire;  April 12, 2007 ;     687 words ......major providers of electronic voting machines in the United States. I left...nationwide use of electronic voting machines, went along with nary an issue...performance of the electronic voting machines used. In fact, for those who see all electronic voting machines as ...

Article: Some electronic voting machines not 'up to date'
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  November 8, 2006 ;     422 words ......and using paper ballots in one Jeannette...than 800 voting machines reflected...electronic voting machines, and only...forced to use paper ballots until the...switched to paper ballots in 175 of...electronic-voting machines.