{"id":2331,"date":"2006-01-25T17:28:28","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T21:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2006-01-25T17:28:28","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T21:28:28","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-january-25-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2331","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For January 25, 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>A majority of the news is still coming from three states. Vote-by-mail is being discussed in CA and counties are making announcements of their decisions for voting machines in NC and PA. In the meantime, GA&#8217;s Senate passed the VoterID bill with a few differences from what they got from the House so the bill goes back. It&#8217;s still regressive&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>AZ: Opinion &#8211; Bemoaning vote-at-home <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorernews.com\/articles\/2006\/01\/25\/opinion\/emil_franzi's_inside_track\/inside_track.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AZ: Pressure Tactics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/Issues\/2006-01-26\/news\/dougherty.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: New voting technique makes it &#8216;simpler&#8217; for some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydemocrat.com\/news\/ci_3436553\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Marin County &#8211; County&#8217;s election system criticized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinij.com\/marin\/ci_3435831\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Mateo County &#8211; San Mateo seeks mail-only election in June <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/local\/13702795.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Mateo County &#8211; Supes approve all-mail voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/sanmateocountytimes\/localnews\/ci_3435485\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Yolo County &#8211; Vote-PAD: The Simple Voting Device that May Save American Democracy! <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002329.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CT: Middletown &#8211; Middletown holds court-ordered special election <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/wire\/connecticut\/ny-bc-ct--middletownelectio0124jan24,0,6829680.story?coll=ny-region-apconnecticut\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Senate passes voter ID bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macon.com\/mld\/macon\/13704250.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Viewpoint: Voter ID Law <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mywebpal.com\/partners\/680\/public\/news691710.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Opening democracy&#8217;s door <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/559\/story\/392188.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Touchscreen Voting Increases Election Costs in North Carolina <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=835&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Nearly all N.C. counties buying voting machines of only vendor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-dispatch.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060125\/APN\/601250872&#038;cachetime=5\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Brunswick County &#8211; Brunswick gets new vote system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myrtlebeachonline.com\/mld\/myrtlebeachonline\/news\/local\/13705720.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Orange County &#8211; Orange goes for new optical scan vote machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald-sun.com\/orange\/10-693455.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Polk County &#8211; Duke grad student estimates 99k saving for Polk with optical scan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tryondailybulletin.com\/news\/18222.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Polk County &#8211; County at impasse on voting machine choice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tryondailybulletin.com\/news\/18221.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: GOP Opposes Optical Scanning For Voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrygazette.org\/articles\/012406OpticalScanning.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Dutchess County &#8211; Miller supports optical scanner voting machines, plans public forums <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midhudsonnews.com\/News\/Miller_HAVA-25Jan06.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Don&#8217;t lose sight of important goals in federal election reform act <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/opinion\/all-editorial1jan25,0,6413511.story?coll=all-newsopinion-hed\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Centre County \u2013 Group (LWV) backs buying new voting devices (Optical-scan) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/mld\/centredaily\/13704590.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Cumberland County &#8211; Long-time vendor to supply new voting machines (ES&#038;S iVotronics) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumberlink.com\/articles\/2006\/01\/24\/news\/news06.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Fayette County &#8211; Official wants to look at other voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldstandard.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=15993474&#038;BRD=2280&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=480247&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Luzerne County &#8211; County gets vote machine ultimatum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesleader.com\/mld\/timesleader\/13705679.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Perry County &#8211; Firm wins voting-machine contract (ES&#038;S iVotronics) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumberlink.com\/articles\/2006\/01\/24\/news\/news07.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Perry County &#8211; County to switch to electronic voting system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/news\/patriotnews\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/113818450167900.xml&#038;coll=1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Union County &#8211; Union County is back to square one in voting machine adventure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard-journal.com\/articles\/2006\/01\/25\/news\/news3.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Westmoreland County &#8211; Filing: Dismiss voting machine suit <a href=\"http:\/\/pittsburghlive.com\/x\/tribune-review\/trib\/westmoreland\/s_416918.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Fort Bend County &#8211; County Republicans, Democrats spar over primary election mechanism <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=15988865&#038;BRD=1574&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=532245&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WV: Berkeley County &#8211; New voting machines to be on display at W.Va. courthouses (iVotronics) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald-mail.com\/?module=displaystory&#038;story_id=129567&#038;format=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 A majority of the news is still coming from three states. Vote-by-mail is being discussed in CA and counties are making announcements of their decisions for voting machines in NC and PA. In the meantime, GA&#8217;s Senate passed the VoterID bill with a few differences from [&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-2331","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\/2331","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=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}