{"id":2291,"date":"2006-01-16T17:33:14","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T21:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2006-01-16T17:33:14","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T21:33:14","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-january-16-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2291","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For January 16, 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><br \/>\nIn Virginia today, Omnibus election bills requiring voter verified paper records, mandatory hand counted audits, and public disclosure of voting system software have been introduced in both chambers of the state legislature. <a href= \"http:\/\/www.vavv.org\/\">Virginia Verified Voting<\/a> and <a href= \"http:\/\/www.neweraforva.org\/\">The New Electoral Reform Alliance for Virginia<\/a> together with <a href= \"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/\">VoteTrustUSA<\/a> have launched a citizen action in support of legislation introduced in the Virginia legislature. Concerned citizens in Virginia are urged to visit the <a href= \"http:\/\/www.congressweb.com\/cweb4\/index.cfm?orgcode=VTUSA&#038;hotissue=5\">Virginia Action Page<\/a> where you can send a message to your state legislators calling on them to support accurate and verifiable elections&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>CA: California counties hope to escape Voting Rights Act rules <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxstudio.com\/shns\/story.cfm?pk=VOTINGRIGHTS-01-16-06&#038;cat=WW\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CT: A Better Voting Machine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/hc-votemachines.artjan16,0,1353755.story?coll=hc-headlines-editorials\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CT: Middletown \u2013 Re-Election Causes Scramble <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/local\/hc-midelection0116.artjan16,0,1156875.story?coll=hc-headlines-local\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Georgia Black Caucus Boycotts MLK Event Over Voter ID Bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantaprogressivenews.com\/pages\/19\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MI: Harrison Township &#8211; Clerks disagree on instructions printed on township ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macombdaily.com\/stories\/011606\/loc_ballot001.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Chatham County \u2013 Opinion &#8211; New voting machines for Chatham County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chathamjournal.com\/weekly\/opinion\/chatlist\/dre-not-answer-60116.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Cumberland County &#8211; Voting machines on commissioners&#8217; agenda <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayettevillenc.com\/article?id=224449\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Wayne County &#8211; Officials to finalize new voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsargus.com\/news\/archives\/2006\/01\/16\/officials_to_finalize_new_voting_machines\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: N.Y. way behind in voting reforms <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060116\/NEWS01\/601160335\/1002\/NEWS\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Fixing elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejournalnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060116\/OPINION01\/601160307\/1015\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VA: Virginia Voting Rights Groups Launch Legislative Action <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=733&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VA: Time for Reform &#8211; Assembly Must Act to Eliminate Voting-Machine Manipulation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=745&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VT: Blind will be able to vote in Stamford with trial equipment (Telephone) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benningtonbanner.com\/localnews\/ci_3406893\" 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 In Virginia today, Omnibus election bills requiring voter verified paper records, mandatory hand counted audits, and public disclosure of voting system software have been introduced in both chambers of the state legislature. Virginia Verified Voting and The New Electoral Reform Alliance for Virginia together with VoteTrustUSA [&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-2291","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\/2291","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=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}