{"id":2022,"date":"2005-11-15T16:54:38","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T20:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2005-11-15T16:54:38","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T20:54:38","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-november-15-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2022","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For November 15, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest Blogged by John Gideon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VotersUnite.org\">VotersUnite.org<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>The little town of Bluffton, SC will decide to cease hand tallying their paper ballots after an election today. They have always had a town meeting after the polls close in which the votes are read off and tallied on chalk boards with the audience yelling \u201ctally\u201d after each group of five slash marks is put on the board. Now some feel the town is getting too big and they will go to DREs in the future. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NATIONAL: Recalling when a vote mattered (Note: This is a fun column to read) <a href=\" http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/news\/nrv\/columns\/journal\/wb\/wb\/xp-40793\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AZ: Businessman pushes voting-by-mail initiative for Ariz elections <a href=\" http:\/\/kvoa.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=4121258&#038;nav=HMO6HMaW\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Orange County &#8211; GPS to help O.C. polls run smoothly <a href=\" http:\/\/ocregister.com\/ocregister\/news\/homepage\/article_754342.php\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: El Dorado County &#8211; Voters return to polls soon. Change to optical-scan <a href=\" http:\/\/www.tahoedailytribune.com\/article\/20051115\/NEWS\/111150027\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Alameda County &#8211; Alameda Voters Get First Look at New Voting Machines <a href=\" http:\/\/www.berkeleydaily.org\/text\/article.cfm?issue=11-15-05&#038;storyID=22757\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Commentary: Changes in Voting Procedures Needed <a href=\" http:\/\/www.berkeleydaily.org\/text\/article.cfm?issue=11-15-05&#038;storyID=22776\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Boulder County &#8211; Election audit sufficient? <a href=\" http:\/\/www.coloradodaily.com\/articles\/2005\/11\/14\/news\/c_u_and_boulder\/news6.txt\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CT: Voters stood in line for more than an hour Monday to try out the three different voting machines in the running to be the state&#8217;s new electronic model. (Danaher, Avante and Diebold) <a href=\" http:\/\/www.bristolpress.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=15577779&#038;BRD=1643&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=10486&#038;rfi=6\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CT: New Voting Experience (Misinformation from the SoS and vendors) <a href=\" http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/politics\/hc-vote1115.artnov15,0,1009636.story?coll=hc-headlines-politics-state\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Volusia County &#8211; Ceremony snub miffs elections chief <a href=\" http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/NewsJournalOnline\/News\/Headlines\/03NewsHEAD04111505.htm\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Richmond County &#8211; Election results stand after District 5 recount (DRE recount showed the same results as election day count. Go figure) <a href=\" http:\/\/chronicle.augusta.com\/stories\/111505\/met_5704875.shtml\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Pasquotank County &#8211; Recount says Foster won Elizabeth City mayor&#8217;s race. There is now a protest filed on this race. (ES&#038;S Votronic DREs) <a href=\" http:\/\/home.hamptonroads.com\/stories\/story.cfm?story=95360&#038;ran=185349\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Keep voting protections, forum says <a href=\" http:\/\/www.news-record.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051115\/NEWSREC0101\/511150316\/1001\/NEWSREC0201\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Guilford County &#8211; Behind the scenes at Guilford County board of elections <a href=\" http:\/\/www.yesweekly.com\/main.asp?SectionID=1&#038;SubSectionID=1&#038;ArticleID=758&#038;TM=51748.45\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NH: Portsmouth &#8211; City must recount council vote by hand <a href=\" http:\/\/www.seacoastonline.com\/news\/special\/11_14special9.htm\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: Trenton &#8211; Clerk&#8217;s office up for the count <a href=\" http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/times\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-0\/1132047361174320.xml&#038;coll=5&#038;thispage=1\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: Hudson County &#8211; Votes won&#8217;t be counted until Friday <a href=\" http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/jjournal\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-0\/1132049530324250.xml&#038;coll=3\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Ninth JD &#8211; Supreme Court ballots impounded, locking up all contested election races in the Ninth JD <a href=\" http:\/\/www.midhudsonnews.com\/News\/9thJD_impound-15Nov05.htm\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Steuben County &#8211; Hogan: Voters demand probe of District 10 race <a href=\" http:\/\/www.eveningtribune.com\/articles\/2005\/11\/15\/news\/news02.txt\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Lucas County &#8211; Election boss now says space crunch slowed vote count <a href=\" http:\/\/toledoblade.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051115\/NEWS09\/511150361\/-1\/NEWS\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Erie County &#8211; Provisional ballots under scrutiny <a href=\" http:\/\/www.goerie.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051115\/ELECTION\/511150339\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Cumberland County &#8211; County says Rhoades won race (Failure in ES&#038;S software) <a href=\" http:\/\/www.cumberlink.com\/articles\/2005\/11\/15\/news\/news09.txt\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>SC: Bluffton &#8211; Paper voting to end? Bluffton might shed tradition <a href=\" http:\/\/www.islandpacket.com\/news\/local\/story\/5333230p-4830260c.html\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VA: Deeds closes vote gap as canvass continues <a href=\" http:\/\/www.fredericksburg.com\/News\/FLS\/2005\/112005\/11152005\/145872\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VA: Voting machines leave room for fraud <a href=\" http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/editorials\/commentary\/wb\/wb\/xp-40768\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WA: King County &#8211; Challenging the GOP challenge in King County <a href=\" http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/248381_election15.html\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WI: Rep. Pocan: Bipartisan Request to Governor for Special Session on Paper Trail Reform Measure   <a href=\" http:\/\/www.wisdems.org\/ht\/display\/ReleaseDetails\/i\/701319\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AFRICA: Citizens to Check Voter Registration Status At ATMs (Is this in our future?) <a href=\" http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200511150542.html\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<b>**&#8221;Daily Voting News&#8221; is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in &#8220;Daily Voting News&#8221; may not reflect the opinions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VotersUnite.org\">VotersUnite.Org<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">BradBlog.Com<\/a>**<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org The little town of Bluffton, SC will decide to cease hand tallying their paper ballots after an election today. They have always had a town meeting after the polls close in which the votes are read off and tallied on chalk boards with the audience yelling \u201ctally\u201d after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}