{"id":2179,"date":"2005-12-19T22:07:04","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T02:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2005-12-19T22:07:04","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T02:07:04","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-december-19-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For December 19, 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>North Carolina counties continue to meet and make their selections of voting machines for the future. Unfortunately they cannot wait until a decision from the court on whether any voting system presently certified by the state board of elections can, by law, be considered to be certified. The state is certainly doing nothing to stop the counties from making their decisions&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional \u2013 Op\/Ed &#8211; The Business of Voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/18\/opinion\/18sun2.html\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Francisco \u2013 Ranked-Choice Voting Favored By San Franciscans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs5.com\/localwire\/localfsnews\/bcn\/2005\/12\/19\/n\/HeadlineNews\/RANKED-CHOICE\/resources_bcn_html\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Santa Cruz County &#8211; County will miss voting-machine deadline (Sequoia) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/archive\/2005\/December\/19\/local\/stories\/05local.htm\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Florida Gov. Bush Expresses Concern About State Election Systems in Light of Leon County Hack Test <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002173.htm\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: If ballots are good enough for Iraq\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/opinion\/letters\/sfl-brmail749dec19,0,7948596.story?coll=sfla-news-letters\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Palm Beach County \u2013 Editorial &#8211; Fair vote-counting first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/opinion\/content\/opinion\/epaper\/2005\/12\/19\/a14a_elections_edit_1219.html\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Photo ID bus gets little use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/metro\/content\/metro\/1205\/19metglowbus.html\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>LA: Election delay violates law, say critics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louisianaweekly.com\/weekly\/news\/articlegate.pl?20051219w\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MO: St. Louis &#8211; City election board selects Diebold for new voting system. Diebold says that the test in Leon Co., FL was faulty and couldn&#8217;t be duplicated if real election procedures were followed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/2B5768960D3FD51D862570DC007D9550?OpenDocument\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Craven County &#8211; Craven commissioners to look at voting options <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newbernsj.com\/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=\/GlobalTemplates\/Details.cfm&#038;StoryID=25303&#038;Section=Local\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Guilford County &#8211; Time for the county to vote on a system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-record.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051218\/NEWSREC0101\/512180316\/1001\/NEWSREC0201\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Pamlico County &#8211; Pamlico to discuss voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newbernsj.com\/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=\/GlobalTemplates\/Details.cfm&#038;StoryID=25306&#038;Section=Local\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Misleading Editorial &#8211; N.C. leaders should put highest priority on ironing out voting machine issues <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051219\/OPINION01\/51216022\/1006\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Officials in rush to buy new voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotte.com\/mld\/charlotte\/news\/politics\/13439648.htm\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Catawba County &#8211; County preparing to purchase new voting equipment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hickoryrecord.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=HDR\/MGArticle\/HDR_BasicArticle&#038;c=MGArticle&#038;cid=1128768802306&#038;path=\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Chatham County &#8211; Scanning the reasons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/580\/story\/379530.html\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Durham County &#8211; Vote talliers to face scrutiny <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/102\/story\/379566.html\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Polk County &#8211; Polk needs new voting machines soon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tryondailybulletin.com\/news\/18009.asp\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>ND: Wilson County &#8211; County welcomes new voting machines (AutoMARK) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willistonherald.com\/articles\/2005\/12\/18\/news\/news1.txt\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NM: Machine Purchase May Violate State Law <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/WO0512\/S00330.htm\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Vote reform is way overdue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poughkeepsiejournal.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2005512180323\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: New York and Help America Vote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldiariony.com\/noticias\/detail.aspx?section=25&#038;desc=Editorial&#038;id=1298884\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Bucks County &#8211; Bucks voting coalition grows in numbers, influence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/local\/quakertown\/all-2votedec18,0,7042551.story?coll=all-newslocalquakertown-hed\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TN: Shelby County &#8211; Voter case solved, says Ford <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/mca\/local_news\/article\/0,1426,MCA_437_4324084,00.html\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Redistricting map: &#8216;It&#8217;s the purest form of racism&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagodefender.com\/page\/national.cfm?ArticleID=3286\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VA: Attorney general votes get second look on Tuesday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/politics\/wb\/45049\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WA: Snohomish County &#8211; Council to rethink mail-only vote <a href=\"http:\/\/heraldnet.com\/stories\/05\/12\/19\/100loc_a1voting001.cfm\"><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 North Carolina counties continue to meet and make their selections of voting machines for the future. Unfortunately they cannot wait until a decision from the court on whether any voting system presently certified by the state board of elections can, by law, be considered to be certified. 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