{"id":2509,"date":"2006-03-06T17:09:16","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T21:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2006-06-15T15:53:19","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T22:53:19","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-march-06-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2509","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For March 06, 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>The big news for the day today is that Georgia; the bastion of paperless voting, one of the last of Diebold&#8217;s paperless frontiers; may actually have a vvpat very soon. The state senate, today, voted 51-0 to require a voter verified paper audit trail. And, Cathy Cox has left her counterpart Linda Lamone, of Maryland, to fend for herself as she has now come out in support of this bill. Speaking of Maryland, Gov. Ehrlich has again spoken out, more clearly this time, against paperless voting. My! My! Will wonders never cease&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Commentary &#8211; Victor Landa: Voting today isn&#8217;t what it used to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/opinion\/stories\/MYSA030606.02O.landa.213e54a2.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: It&#8217;s Hard Out Here for a Pimp&#8230;Diebold Gets Desperate, Sends a Pro to Work the Corner of BRAD Street and Democracy Blvd. <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002504.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Open source election systems desirable, unavailable <a href=\"http:\/\/trends.newsforge.com\/trends\/06\/02\/28\/1648218.shtml?tid=136&#038;tid=132\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: California ought to give all-mail voting a whirl <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/opinion\/articles\/2411496.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Say NO To Email And Fax Voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1004&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Programmer wants voting machines open to hackers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/government\/article\/0,2777,DRMN_23906_4519126,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Senate approves study of voting paper trail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledger-enquirer.com\/mld\/ledgerenquirer\/news\/politics\/14032432.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Ehrlich strongly backs bill on paper ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/politics\/bal-ehrlich0306,0,1870824.story?coll=bal-local-headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Touch-Screen Voting Fallible, Gov. Ehrlich Says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/03\/05\/AR2006030501045.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: House Committee Votes 20-3 to Scrap Diebold Touch-Screens in State! <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002503.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Opinion &#8211; New York&#8217;s new motto: &#8216;Dead last and defiant&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressconnects.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060306\/OPINION\/603060311\/1005\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Opinion \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd So Sue Us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejournalnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060306\/OPINION01\/603060311\/1015\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Ulster County &#8211; Electronic voting machines on display <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyfreeman.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16246122&#038;BRD=1769&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=74969&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Voting Machine Support Costly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1005&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: The voting machine case: Force &#038; recklessness <a href=\"http:\/\/pittsburghlive.com\/x\/tribune-review\/opinion\/archive\/s_429629.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Bucks County &#8211; eVoting in the News <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phillyburbs.com\/blog.php?p=4525&#038;cat=8\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Bowie County &#8211; New tech making it easier to vote (AutoMark) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texarkanagazette.com\/articles\/2006\/03\/06\/local_news\/news\/news04.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Dallas &#8211; Voting machine stolen from elections judge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/localnews\/stories\/030706dnmetvotingmachine.8f10b1af.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Martin County &#8211; County converts to new electronic voting system, joint primary (Hart eSlate) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mywesttexas.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16246937&#038;BRD=2288&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=475626&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VT: Burlington &#8211; Burlington to kick off runoff today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060306\/NEWS02\/603060304\/1007\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VT: Burlington &#8211; Instant runoff system gets tryout in Burlington <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesargus.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060306\/NEWS\/603060350\/1003\" 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 The big news for the day today is that Georgia; the bastion of paperless voting, one of the last of Diebold&#8217;s paperless frontiers; may actually have a vvpat very soon. The state senate, today, voted 51-0 to require a voter verified paper audit trail. And, Cathy [&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":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-voting-news","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","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=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}