{"id":2442,"date":"2006-02-17T19:59:48","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T23:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2006-02-17T19:59:48","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T23:59:48","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-february-17-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2442","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For February 17, 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 California, SoS Bruce McPherson reached down and deep and certified Diebold for use in the state with some conditions. Note that there has still been no report from the federal ITA that was asked to reinspect the Diebold memory card. At the same time, in Maryland, Diebold and Linda Lamone have taken to ignoring the truth, or misrepresenting it as they ignore proof of lost votes in elections and try to assure voters that there are no problems. And good news from New Mexico where the state legislature has passed a voter verified paper ballot bill&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Voter databases must be secured, report says <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Voter+databases+must+be+secured,+report+says\/2100-7348_3-6040781.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Secretary of State Bruce McPherson Grants Certification to Diebold with Conditions <a href=\"http:\/\/votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=941&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: California Secretary of State Certifies, With Conditions, Diebold Touch Screen and Optical Scan Voting Systems for 2006 Elections <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/prnews\/060217\/clf044.html?.v=23\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Elections chief questions use of electronic voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/articles\/2006\/02\/17\/peninsula\/20060217_pe01_elections.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Hearing probes &#8216;scary&#8217; voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paloaltoonline.com\/news\/show_story.php?id=2412\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Santa Cruz County \u2013 Opinion &#8211; As We See It: Mail-in voting a sign of the times. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/archive\/2006\/February\/17\/edit\/stories\/01edit.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Larimer County &#8211; Unfunded mandate would cost the county <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovelandfyi.com\/opinion-story.asp?ID=4044\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Leon County &#8211; Sancho sets own deadline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060217\/NEWS01\/602170346\/1010\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: Bartholomew County &#8211; Officials eye new, old voting machine mix <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/main.asp?SectionID=1&#038;SubSectionID=111&#038;ArticleID=93946&#038;TM=24555.06\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Voting System Defended As Nation&#8217;s Best (By Diebold and Linda Lamone) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewbalchannel.com\/news\/7131326\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Md. officials worry about voting system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald-mail.com\/?module=displaystory&#038;story_id=131368&#038;format=html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Md. Official Resists Call to Change Voting System (Linda Lamone) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/16\/AR2006021602185.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Ehrlich voting proposal decried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/politics\/bal-md.voting17feb17,0,6674630.story?coll=bal-local-headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NM: Paper Ballot Victory In New Mexico <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=938&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NM: Paper Ballot Bill Among Those that Clear Legislature in Final Hours <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/xgr\/apfinal02-16-06.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: New York faces DOJ suit over voter accessibility law <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/governmenttopics\/government\/itgovernment\/story\/0,10801,108798,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Team 4 Investigates Electronic Voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepittsburghchannel.com\/news\/7161565\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Voting suit headed to Pa. high court <a href=\"http:\/\/pittsburghlive.com\/x\/tribune-review\/election\/s_424904.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Armstrong County &#8211; Commissioners caught in legal quandary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/leadertimes\/s_424954.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Bucks County &#8211; CVI braces for decision on voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16137437&#038;BRD=1685&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=45363&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Carbon County &#8211; Carbon hopes to avoid voter &#8216;mass confusion&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standardspeaker.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1070&#038;Itemid=2\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Delaware County &#8211; County unveils new electronic voting machines (910 Danaher 1242) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16136008&#038;BRD=1677&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=82745&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Delaware County &#8211; Editorial: Voting-machine race is still up in the air <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16143542&#038;BRD=1675&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=18168&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Luzerne County &#8211; Ruling puts counties, including Luzerne, in limbo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standardspeaker.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1069&#038;Itemid=2\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Washington County &#8211; Washington Co. buys touch-screen voting machines (700 Diebolds) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/06048\/656862.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Wichita County &#8211; Vendor expects to be ready to go (ES&#038;S iVotronic) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesrecordnews.com\/trn\/local_news\/article\/0,1891,TRN_5784_4474306,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WA: King County &#8211; County election trouble not yet fixed <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/259914_election17.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WV: Kanawha County &#8211; Putting fee on May ballot nixed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/News\/200602174\/\" 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 California, SoS Bruce McPherson reached down and deep and certified Diebold for use in the state with some conditions. Note that there has still been no report from the federal ITA that was asked to reinspect the Diebold memory card. At the same time, in [&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-2442","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\/2442","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=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}