{"id":2131,"date":"2005-12-08T17:17:04","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T21:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2005-12-08T17:17:04","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T21:17:04","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-december-08-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2131","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For December 08, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest Blogged by John Gideon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VotersUnite.org\">VotersUnite.org<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.VotersUnite.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/DVNLogo.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Today it was announced that a suit is being brought in North Carolina against the certification of three voting systems in apparent violation of state law. Also, Diebold may be sued in a securities fraud law suit. In Florida a friend of the family and Bush donor has joined the long list of cronies to be given jobs; this time Secretary of State. And on the national scene, Rep. Rush Holt has introduced a bill to stop voter intimidation&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Invisible Ballots. It&#8217;s 11pm. Do you know where your votes are? <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/coopo\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Organization Seeking Plaintiffs for Potential Securities Fraud Class Action Lawsuit Against Diebold Inc. <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.usnewswire.com\/GetRelease.asp?id=57801\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Diebold to repurchase shares <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crainscleveland.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051208\/FREE\/51208001\/1003&#038;Profile=1003\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Rep. Holt Introduces Bill To Stop Voter Intimidation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=457&#038;Itemid=26\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AZ: Maricopa County &#8211; Judge rules lawmaker must leave office <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azstarnet.com\/sn\/hourlyupdate\/105949.php\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CT: Secretary Of The State Will Give Towns Optical Scan Option For Balloting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtownbee.com\/News.asp?s=News-2005-12-08-14-35-58p1.htm\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Wexler asks court to ensure manual recounts in close races <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/NewsJournalOnline\/News\/Florida\/03FloridaSTAT01POLF120805.htm\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Court reviewing dispute over state&#8217;s system of voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/news\/13355043.htm\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Gov. Bush picks major Republican donor to oversee state elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/local\/florida\/sfl-fcobb08dec08,0,4662473.story?coll=sfla-news-florida\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>KS: KC election board selects Diebold system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/mld\/kansascity\/news\/13361617.htm\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>LA: SoS Ater recommends delaying elections scheduled for April <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuscaloosanews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051208\/APN\/512080769&#038;cachetime=3&#038;template=dateline\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MT: Cascade County &#8211; County may use one polling place <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatfallstribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051208\/NEWS01\/512080305\/1002\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Press Release &#8211; North Carolina Sued for Illegally Certifying Voting Equipment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/news\/\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Election group challenges certification of 3 vote machine vendors (Sequoia, ES&#038;S, and Diebold) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotte.com\/mld\/observer\/news\/local\/13361799.htm\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Voting choices &#8211; New Yorkers might wind up paying more to comply with the Help America Vote Act <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=427651&#038;category=OPINION&#038;newsdate=12\/8\/2005\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Diebold execs gave to GOP despite ban <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/plaindealer\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/113403461250230.xml&#038;coll=2\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Democrats boycott vote to forward revised and regressive elections plan <a href=\"http:\/\/toledoblade.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051208\/NEWS09\/512080429\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Leigh Allan: ID idea gets under our skin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/localnews\/content\/localnews\/columns\/daily\/1208leigh.html\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Beaver County &#8211; Counties receive reprieve on buying voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=15715002&#038;BRD=2305&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=478569&#038;rfi=6\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Northampton County &#8211; Recent vote for new registrar may have violated law <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/local\/easton\/all-b1_3electiondec08,0,1236297.story?coll=all-newslocaleaston-hed\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Bucks County &#8211; Residents to check out three new voting machines today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/inquirer\/news\/local\/13356176.htm\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Chester County &#8211; Group divided on new voting system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/philly\/news\/13356189.htm\"><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 Today it was announced that a suit is being brought in North Carolina against the certification of three voting systems in apparent violation of state law. Also, Diebold may be sued in a securities fraud law suit. In Florida a friend of the family and Bush donor has [&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-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","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=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}