{"id":2267,"date":"2006-01-11T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2009-03-04T13:57:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T21:57:04","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-january-11-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2267","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For January 11, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest Blogged by John Gideon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VotersUnite.org\">VotersUnite.org<\/a> and <a href= \"http:\/\/www.VoteTrustUSA.org\">VoteTrustUSA.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>While a dozen Northern California counties consider going vote-by-mail in order to get themselves out of the &#8216;voting machines morass&#8217; Riverside Co. decides to pay over $6M to upgrade their present Sequoia voting machines to newer machines. These &#8216;newer&#8217; machines are federally qualified to 1990 standards and do not meet HAVA mandates for accessibility. Those of you who have responded to the Action Alert from <a href= \"http:\/\/www.congressweb.com\/cweb4\/index.cfm?orgcode=VTUSA&#038;hotissue=4\">VoteTrustUSA<\/a> have sent 15,097 emails to the EAC along with 1870 letters demanding the ITA be made to do their job&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Sue Diebold <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/opedne_rob_kall_060111_sue_diebold.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AL: Marengo County &#8211; Polling places could change <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demopolistimes.com\/articles\/2006\/01\/11\/news\/news01.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AL: Russell County &#8211; Russell to buy 20 voting machines (AutoMARK) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledger-enquirer.com\/mld\/ledgerenquirer\/news\/local\/13595951.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AL: Shelby County &#8211; County Approves Purchase of HAVA Machines (AutoMARK) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelbycountyreporter.com\/articles\/2006\/01\/11\/news\/news06.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AR: Arkansas County &#8211; County will purchase new voting system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dewitt-ee.com\/articles\/2006\/01\/11\/news\/news02.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AZ: Gila County &#8211; County Recorder will handle city election needs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverbelt.com\/articles\/2006\/01\/10\/news\/news03.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Counties explore all-mail voting (12 Northern Calif. counties) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/trivalleyherald\/localnews\/ci_3391120\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Alameda County &#8211; Officials want all-mail election <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/mld\/cctimes\/news\/local\/states\/california\/13599057.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Alameda County &#8211; County votes to lobby for all-mail election, joined by others <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/local\/states\/california\/northern_california\/13601671.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Humboldt County &#8211; Humboldt Voters Association forms to advocate ranked-choice voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekareporter.com\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=7186\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Riverside County &#8211; County to buy 3,700 e-voting machines (Sequoia Edge II) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/riverside\/stories\/PE_News_Local_H_vote11.12de912e.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Tulare County &#8211; McPherson makes visit to Tulare County <a href=\"http:\/\/myopr.com\/articles\/2006\/01\/11\/news\/local_state\/news02.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CT: Attorney General Blumenthal investigating voting machine company (Danaher) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connpost.com\/news\/ci_3390944\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Bureau County OKs new voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pjstar.com\/stories\/011106\/REG_B8LQ4QH3.033.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: La Salle County &#8211; Better Ballots: New voting machines allow more privacy (AutoMARK) <a href=\"http:\/\/mywebtimes.com\/ottnews\/archives\/ottawa\/sections.cgi?prcss=display&#038;id=240185\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Governor&#8217;s panel backs vetoes of four election reform bills <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/bal-vetoes0110,1,2062605.story?coll=bal-local-headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Veto battles point toward tough session <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/politics\/bal-assembly0110,1,1530574.story?coll=bal-local-headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MS: SoS Clark unveils funding proposal for new voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/mld\/sunherald\/news\/politics\/13601167.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Opinion &#8211; There&#8217;s no need to delay primary (A great opinion piece) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hendersonvillenews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2006601100307\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Chatham County &#8211; Opinion &#8211; Board of Elections selects the wrong new voting machine option <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chathamjournal.com\/weekly\/opinion\/myopinion\/election-board-mistake-60111.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Johnston County &#8211; County may join protest over voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claytonnews-star.com\/news\/2006011101927.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Person County &#8211; Officials mulling voting gear options <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roxboro-courier.com\/newsnowstories\/ts011106-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Wayne County &#8211; Voters test new machine choices <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsargus.com\/news\/archives\/2006\/01\/11\/voters_test_new_machine_choices\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Dutchess County &#8211; Election flaws must be fixed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poughkeepsiejournal.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060111\/OPINION01\/601110305\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Rensselaer County &#8211; Most accurate voting measures not yet in place <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyrecord.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=15905883&#038;BRD=1170&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=7021&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Summit County &#8211; Voting-system purchase OK&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/mld\/beaconjournal\/news\/local\/states\/ohio\/counties\/summit_county\/13598571.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Westmoreland County &#8211; Computerized voting suit heads to Commonwealth Court <a href=\"http:\/\/pittsburghlive.com\/x\/tribune-review\/trib\/newssummary\/s_412527.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Montgomery County &#8211; County residents can vote close to home March 7 (The county tried to combine precincts but the voters rebelled against that) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=15903585&#038;BRD=1574&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=532215&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WA: King County &#8211; Voting on elections director advised <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/255214_election11.html\" target=\"_blank\"><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 and VoteTrustUSA.Org While a dozen Northern California counties consider going vote-by-mail in order to get themselves out of the &#8216;voting machines morass&#8217; Riverside Co. decides to pay over $6M to upgrade their present Sequoia voting machines to newer machines. These &#8216;newer&#8217; machines are federally qualified to 1990 standards [&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":[21,9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-daily-voting-news","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","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=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}