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Lawsuit Is Filed Over Ballot Rule in Pennsylvania

Oct. 23, 2008
Several groups sought to force election officials to provide paper ballots when half the voting machines in a precinct have failed.
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Rainy weather yields wet ballots in Va.

RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Rainy weather in Virginia caused problems with wet ballots gumming up optical scanning machines, voting officials reported.

Turnout, voting methods may tax polls

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A record crush of U.S. voters on Election Day and changes to the federal election system could make for some long lines and late tallies, an expert said.

Early Fla. voting sees lines, malfunctions

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Early U.S. election voting in Florida has resulted in malfunctioning vote scanners and long lines at polling places, officials say.

Missing ballots found in voting center

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Palm Beach County, Fla., officials said they found 3,500 missing ballots in a voting center, dispelling rumors the votes ended up in a landfill.

Early Florida voting goes flawlessly

MIAMI, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Turnout was light but Florida voters reported no problems with new optical scan equipment after the first day of early voting in local elections.

Ballot design ignored, study says

WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- Badly designed ballots still dog U.S. elections despite Congress setting aside $3 billion to revamp voting systems, a study released Monday indicated.
Paper ballots replacing touch-screens

Paper ballots replacing touch-screens

MIAMI, June 17 (UPI) -- Election administrators say paper ballots are making a big comeback this year after problems were encountered with touch-screen machines in 2004 and 2006.

Colorado voting machines rejected

DENVER, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Colorado officials were scrambling to prepare for the 2008 presidential election after electronic voting machines in most counties were deemed unusable.

Voting machine upgrades needed in Calif.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Officials in 39 California counties must make security upgrades to their electronic voting machines in order to use them in next year's primary election.

Techs hack into voting machines

WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- In a test sanctioned by the state of California, computer experts were able to hack into three of the largest U.S. electronic voting systems.

Tests of e-voting machines flawed

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Flaws have prompted the U.S. government to temporarily suspend testing of electronic voting machines by a lab in Greenwood Village, Colo.

Voters want their paper ballots back

SARASOTA, Fla., Nov. 15 (UPI) -- A Florida county is dumping its touch-screen voting machines in favor of paper ballots.

Paper jam blamed for faulty ballots

OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Election officials in Thurston County, Wash., said a handful of misprinted ballots were sent to polling places for Tuesday's election.

Results in close races may take weeks

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Experts say results in close U.S. races may be delayed by days or even weeks because of problems posed by counting provisional ballots.

Study says e-voting machines pose problems

NEW YORK, June 27 (UPI) -- A study by the New York-based non-partisan Brennan Center for Justice has listed more than 120 security threats affecting U.S. electronic voting machines.
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch