Volusia County in HBO Documentary
Tonight at 9 p.m., HBO plans to air a documentary called "Hacking Democracy", which focuses on the controversy over touch-screen voting machines. (See story from today’s paper about voting machine...
View ArticleA Touch-Screen Primer
Haven’t voted yet? Intimidated by the new touch-screen voting machines? Here’s a 9-minute video guide about the new machines from the Volusia County Supervisor of Elections Office. In it, Supervisor of...
View ArticleFun with Voting Machines
At Tuesday’s Senate Ethics and Elections committee meeting on voting machines and paper trails, senators and the public had a chance to play with seven different machines. (Read more about the meeting...
View ArticleSlight Change in Paper Trail Plan
Gov. Charlie Crist appeared before Congress today to talk about his plan to replace most of the state’s touch-screen voting machines with optical scan ballots. Crist’s proposal has changed slightly...
View ArticleSome Action on Paper Trails
For weeks, Gov. Charlie Crist and some state legislators have said that they want to replace most of the state’s touch-screen voting machines with paper ballots. But despite the rhetoric, no bill had...
View ArticleTouch Screen Machines on eBay?
How much confidence do state Senators have in the touch-screen voting machines they are trying to replace? So much that during a discussion of a bill today that would do away with most touch-screens,...
View ArticleHouse Passes Elections Bill
The House unanimously passed a sweeping elections reform package that scraps virtually all touch-screen machines and moves Florida’s primary to Jan. 29. The bill now goes to Gov. Charlie Crist, who is...
View ArticleUPDATE: Humidity Monkeying with Florida Ballots
Orange Election Supervisor Bill Cowles said that about a half dozen precincts were experiencing glitches due to the likely humid conditions from Tropical Storm Fay affecting the size of the ballot...
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