New Iowa voting machines come from company that had wrong result
WQAD.com
Des
Moines-AP — The same company that produced wrong election results two
years ago in Baldwin County, Alabama, has manufactured Iowa's newest
voting machines. But company officials say the wrong results won't
happen here.
Michael
Devereaux, a vice president of sales for Election Systems and Software,
says he's confident that the voters are going to be able to vote on
their ballot, have their ballot counted, and have it counted correctly.
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Van Buren County to stick with paper ballots
KTOVTV3.com
(DES
MOINES-AP) — Florida's election mess during the presidential race of
2000 is having consequences for at least one Heartland county.
Van
Buren in Southeast Iowa has always used paper ballots for voting.
Changes in Federal law, resulting from the 2000 election require
updated voting machine. But Van Buren County will not be going to the
touch-screen voting machines.
Six
other Iowa county's are sticking to paper ballots this year until more
is known about the reliability of touch-screen voting machines.
Six counties in the state use lever machines — Delaware, Ida, Sioux, Palo Alto, Keokuk, and Crawford.
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Crawford County to soon upgrade voting machines
The Daily Nonpareil, Council Bluffs
DENISON – Crawford County will soon get new voting machines.
Auditor
Cecilia Fineran said it is probably about time to replace the lever
machines the county has been using since the mid-1960s.
“We have
been able to make it work,” she said. Fineran said so far she's been
able to get replacement parts and ballot paper, but it is getting more
difficult to do so.
“They weigh about 600 pounds each so they are hard to move,” she said.
While
the county has until January 2006 to meet new federal voting machine
standards, which outlaw the lever machines, Fineran said she hopes to
have leased optical scanners in place for this year's September school
board elections.
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State and counties reach voting machine deal
The Ottumwa Courier
DES
MOINES – A pioneering deal worked out between state and local election
officials means a major upgrade in voting technology for two area
counties.
Officials
from Keokuk, Van Buren, Crawford, Delaware, Ida and Palo Alto counties
met with Iowa Secretary of State Chet Culver Wednesday afternoon in Des
Moines.
A deal
has been reached for the six counties to replace their current lever or
paper ballot voting systems with cutting-edge machines, Culver
announced. It will impact about 50,000 registered voters in the state.
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At least those six counties will be using a ballot that will have a paper trail that can be audited. My county is still stuck with a touch screen system with no paper trail and a manufacturer that doesn't provide hardware support any more. All of that will change once I become the county auditor.
I hope everyone is having a great start to the week!
-Kevin
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