{"id":2369,"date":"2006-02-02T16:55:20","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T20:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2006-02-02T16:55:20","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T20:55:20","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-february-02-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2369","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For February 02, 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>In Vanderburgh County, IN voters were forced to stand in long lines in Nov. 2004 and some walked away in frustration. The county council has been investigating prior to spending the money to buy more machines. They&#8217;ve now found that 46 machines were left in storage rather than to be used. PA has begun the legislative actions to keep voters from voting. On the national scene HR-550 has picked up another co-sponsor and new legislation that will slow down HAVA has been filed&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Legislation aims to bring voting machine relief (HR-4666) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?BRD=1686&#038;dept_id=41297&#038;newsid=16043485&#038;PAG=461&#038;rfi=9\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) Co-Sponsors HR 550 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=872&#038;Itemid=26\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AZ: Column: Show Us the Ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asuwebdevil.com\/issues\/2006\/02\/02\/webextra\/695536\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: E-voting systems OK&#8217;d, except Diebold&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/argus\/localnews\/ci_3467452\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: El Dorado County &#8211; Registrar: Mail-in election remote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tahoedailytribune.com\/article\/20060202\/NEWS\/102020048\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Riverside County \u2013 Opinion &#8211; Election fears are unfounded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2006\/02\/02\/opinion\/commentary\/18_43_342_1_06.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CT: Guilford &#8211; Guarding the Vote: New Dem Registrar of Voters in Town <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorepublishing.com\/archive\/re.aspx?re=44f1007b-1bc5-472c-8138-09d5689c5fd1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Grundy County &#8211; A sign of the times. County introduces touch screen voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morrisdailyherald.com\/main.asp?SectionID=1&#038;SubSectionID=58&#038;ArticleID=17049&#038;TM=55703.6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: Vanderburgh County &#8211; Voting machines don&#8217;t add up. County clerk says 46 unused in 2004 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courierpress.com\/ecp\/news\/article\/0,1626,ECP_734_4434888,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Paper trail unlikely for 2006 elections <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/metro\/20060201-111622-9461r.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: Franklin Township &#8211; Dougherty optimistic on ballot challenge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/gloucester\/local\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-2\/113887177471720.xml&#038;coll=8\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: State drops court fight to try to show 2004 election was fair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/mld\/beaconjournal\/news\/state\/13776631.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: House votes to ban paroled felons from voting, require voter ID <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesleader.com\/mld\/timesleader\/13767767.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Beaver County &#8211; County selects voting machines (ES&#038;S iVotronic) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16049971&#038;BRD=2305&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=478569&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>SC: Putnam County &#8211; A new way to vote. Touch-screen demonstration converts leery voters to experts <a href=\"http:\/\/sundaygazettemail.com\/section\/News\/Today\/2006020139\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TN: Knox County &#8211; Knox to replace voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/kns\/local_news\/article\/0,1406,KNS_347_4434722,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Liberty County &#8211; LC goes electronic for future elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16035712&#038;BRD=1574&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=532241&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Parker County &#8211; New voting machines quicker, better <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azle-news.net\/news\/get-news.asp?id=5705&#038;catid=1&#038;cpg=get-news.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WV: Putnam County &#8211; Putnam residents get chance to try out voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/News\/2006020221\/\" 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 Vanderburgh County, IN voters were forced to stand in long lines in Nov. 2004 and some walked away in frustration. The county council has been investigating prior to spending the money to buy more machines. They&#8217;ve now found that 46 machines were left in storage [&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-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","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=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}