{"id":2192,"date":"2005-12-22T20:08:33","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T00:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2005-12-22T20:08:33","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T00:08:33","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-december-22-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2192","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For December 22, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

<\/a>One day after winning a court decision in North Carolina that seemed to open the door wide for Diebold to ply their wares in the state; they decided to pull out. Their concern is that they could be charged with a felony if officials determine the company failed to send a copy of all the software its machines use to a special holding company assigned by the state. They say they don’t have permission to provide code that is owned by third parties such as Microsoft Corp. This leaves ES&S as the only approved vendor in the state. There is concern from St. Louis Co., MO that ES&S may be over-pricing their AutoMARK machines in an attempt to force some counties into purchasing their DREs….<\/p>\n

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  • NAtional: 19 states will miss HAVA deadline LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • CA: New California Voting Machines Face Tests (Diebold) (This article has been repeated nationally) LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • CA: San Luis Obispo County – Voting machine investigation will not include SLO County vote scanners (Diebold) LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • CT: Middletown – State Supreme Court rules re-vote needed. A broken lever on one voting machine spurred a remedy of unexpected size in state Supreme Court Wednesday: The court ordered a new, city-wide election for all common council candidates, set tentatively for Jan. 24. LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • CT: Middletown – Defective machine prompts high court to void Middletown election LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • FL: Opinion – Taking a stand for Florida voters LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • IN: Dems continue fight against voter ID law LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • IN: St. Joseph County – Decision nears on voting machines LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • MO: St. Louis County – Amidst Intense Last-Minute Drama, St. Louis County Rejects Diebold! Questions arise over whether ES&S is really interested in selling AutoMARK. LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • MO: Saline County – Feds force new voting machines local officials say weren’t needed LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NC: Lawsuit on voting machines hits wall LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NC: Diebold Pulls Out Of North Carolina! (Again! And For Now…) LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NC: Diebold withdraws as N.C. voting equipment vendor; only one left LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NC: Brunswick County – Brunswick to buy new machines for voting LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NC: Forsyth County – Voting Machine Impasse LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • OH: Summit County – Summit voters will use optical scanners at polls LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • PA: Bucks County – Democrats: Machines must get vote LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • PA: Butler County – Butler County OKs electronic vote (DRE) LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • PA: Chester County – No decision on voting system LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • PA: Schuylkill County – Schuylkill officials allot federal money to help with voting LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • VA: Recount Fails to Overturn Va. GOP Victory LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • VA: Yes Virginia, there’s a problem with absentee balloting. (Recounting Deeds vs McDonnell) (The problem is those older Sequoia and ES&S Optechs) LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/div>\n

    \n**”Daily Voting News” 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 “Daily Voting News” may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org<\/a> or BradBlog.Com<\/a>**<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org One day after winning a court decision in North Carolina that seemed to open the door wide for Diebold to ply their wares in the state; they decided to pull out. Their concern is that they could be charged with a felony if officials determine the company failed […]<\/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-2192","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\/2192","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=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}