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Home » Press / Media » Media Coverage » Rallies
| Editorial: Paper receipts won't cure ills of electronic voting
by Tomah Monitor Herald, story here
July 15th, 2004
This week, moveon.org is organizing rallies in 19 states, including Wisconsin, to protest electronic voting. As part of its "computer ate my vote" campaign, moveon.org is promoting state and federal legislation that would require electronic ballot boxes to issue a paper receipt. |
| The what ate your who now?
by Imprint, story here
July 15th, 2004
A coalition of activists are rallying around the cause in some states, calling the movement ‘the computer ate my vote.' In Maryland this past Tuesday, over 100 activists gathered outside the State house to demand that voting machines be equipped with printers before the upcoming presidential election. |
| Remember chads? They’ve hung around
by Jim Drinkard, USA Today via Alamogordo News, story here
July 15th, 2004
The wrenching experience of the 2000 presidential vote recount in Florida set in motion an urgent makeover of the nation’s voting systems, designed to get rid of problematic equipment and procedures. But as Election Day 2004 approaches, that job remains far from complete, and the potential for problems is as great as ever. |
| Paper trail called key to voting reform
by Elizabeth Benjamin, Capitol bureau, Albany Times Union, story here
July 14th, 2004
Activists delivered their own "paper trail" of nearly 42,000 signatures to Gov. George Pataki on Tuesday, demanding that the state buy only electronic voting machines that create verification records to prevent mistakes, miscounts and fraud. |
| Advocates Demand Paper Voting Record
by Karen DeWitt, WXXI (Albany, NY), story here
July 14th, 2004
Government reform groups say lawmakers should make sure that any new computerized voting machines that they buy have a paper record of votes to serve as a back up if anything goes wrong.
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| Citizens protest Florida e-voting rule
by Sylvia Leatham, ElectricNews.net (Ireland), story here
July 14th, 2004
Meanwhile, a "Computer Ate My Vote" day of protest took place in 24 US cities this week, with thousands of people signing petitions in favour of the introduction of a verifiable paper trail in elections that use e-voting machines. |
| Demand for Paper Trail Escalates
by Kim Zetter, Wired News, story here
July 14th, 2004
Paper has become a big issue in the controversy over electronic voting machines. So activists in 19 states dumped a lot of it on election officials Tuesday as they delivered petitions bearing 350,000 signatures asking officials to mandate voter-verified paper audit trails for touch-screen voting machines in their states. |
| E-voting backup is demanded
by Thomas Burr, Salt Lake Tribune, story here
July 14th, 2004
Bytes shouldn't replace ballots. That was the cry of a group at the state Capitol on Tuesday who handed Utah election officials a 2,000-signature petition calling for some type of paper record to back up new election technology. |
| Some Prefer Paper Ballots to Computers
by David Royse, Associated Press via The Ledger (Lakeland, FL), story here
July 14th, 2004
A small group of about 20 activists delivered about 20,000 petitions Tuesday to the Division of Elections urging the use of paper ballots. The petitions ask officials to require counties that use touchscreen machines to at least produce paper ballots as the official record to safeguard against malfunctions and tampering.
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| Electronic ballot critics reiterate their concerns
by Jerry Cornfield, Daily Herald (Everett, WA), story here
July 14th, 2004
The national debate on the security of electronic voting machines played out in Everett on Tuesday as critics of the machines urged reform to a small crowd that included the county's chief election official.
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| Love of computer, but trust in paper
by Agence France Press via The Star Online, story here
July 14th, 2004
Critics of electronic voting rallied in 24 US cities and garnered 350,000 signatures on petitions Tuesday in a day of protest over technology that some say could yield inaccurate or unverifiable results in November's presidential election.
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| Love of computer, but trust in paper
by Bill Varian, St. Petersburg Times, story here
July 14th, 2004
They asked supervisors of elections and Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood to support creating an old-fashioned paper trail for new touch screen voting machines that will be in use around the state and nation this year. |
| Voting Machine Critics Rally Across U.S.
by Tom Stuckey, Associated Press via PhillyBurbs.com, story here
July 14th, 2004
A coalition of activists around the nation held rallies in state capitals to publicize their fears about paperless voting systems. |
| Voting Machine Critics Rally Across U.S.
by Tom Stuckey, Associated Press via Guardian Unlimited, story here
July 14th, 2004
A coalition of activists around the nation held rallies in state capitals to publicize their fears about paperless voting systems. |
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