{"id":2618,"date":"2006-03-28T20:31:43","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T00:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2007-06-08T23:26:38","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T06:26:38","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-march-28-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2618","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For March 28, 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>Jefferson Co. Texas had so many problems with their ES&#038;S voting machines in their primary that they have asked for the system to be fixed. They are withholding final payment until that happens. They also have a runoff election to hold and now ES&#038;S is refusing to program their machines for that election until they get final payment. Typical ES&#038;S service with a smile. In Utah Emery County election chief, Bruce Funk, is threatening to resign rather than use the counties Diebold machines. Meanwhile in Illinois the cry to not pay any further funds to Sequoia and the questions about their Venezuelan ownership are getting louder&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Port Ludlow inventor helps disabled vote in private <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peninsuladailynews.com\/sited\/story\/html\/233820\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Primary voting-machine troubles raise concerns for &#8217;06 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2006-03-27-voting-machines_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: USA TODAY Front Page Report on E-Voting Machine Problems! <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002614.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Punch Cards Out, Paper Trails In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtech.net\/magazine\/channel_story.php\/98969\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Chicago &#8211; Aldermen: No payments to machine company <a href=\" http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/elect\/cst-nws-vote28.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Chicago &#8211; Chicago election commission may withhold payments to voting machine vendor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wqad.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=4689869&#038;nav=1sW7\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Chicago &#8211; Punch Cards Out, Paper Trails In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infozine.com\/news\/stories\/op\/storiesView\/sid\/13871\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Chicago &#8211; Officials want to withhold payments to voting machine vendor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belleville.com\/mld\/belleville\/news\/state\/14204796.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Chicago &#8211; City finishes counting ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/news\/votes28.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Cook County &#8211; Week later, almost all ballots counted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chicago\/chi-0603280234mar28,1,4097657.story?coll=chi-newslocalchicago-hed\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>LA: New Orleans &#8211; Support Democracy in New Orleans! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfaw.org\/pfaw\/general\/default.aspx?oid=20879\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>ND: New Voting Machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfyrtv.com\/News_Stories.asp?news=1387\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NH: New ballot system ready for disabled voters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/article.aspx?headline=New+ballot+system+ready+for+disabled+voters&#038;articleId=a74bd660-7736-45ca-abd9-dbae0d0bc78e\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Mad rush for new voting machines is mad indeed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/opinion\/ny-opnon284678638mar28,0,228765.story?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: New Absentee Voting Law Gets First Test <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcpo.com\/news\/2006\/local\/03\/27\/oh_absenteevotes.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Voting group seeks more time to upgrade voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/pittsburghlive.com\/x\/tribune-review\/election\/s_437549.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Allegheny County &#8211; Electronic voting machines to be put to the test <a href=\"http:\/\/pittsburghlive.com\/x\/tribune-review\/election\/s_437509.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Allegheny County &#8211; Despite Chicago glitches, officials here confident in voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/06087\/677413-85.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Allegheny County &#8211; Team 4: Voting Machine Issues Investigated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepittsburghchannel.com\/news\/8320926\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Beaver County &#8211; County awaits new voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16381721&#038;BRD=2305&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=478569&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Chester County &#8211; Official: New voting machines on schedule (ES&#038;S) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylocal.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16386543&#038;BRD=1671&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=17782&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Fayette County &#8211; Voters may get look at new system (Hart eSlate) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldstandard.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16386489&#038;BRD=2280&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=480247&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>SD: Voting machines a breakthrough for disabled citizens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rapidcityjournal.com\/articles\/2006\/03\/28\/news\/local\/news03.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TN: Knox County &#8211; Election Commission set to select new machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/kns\/local_news\/article\/0,1406,KNS_347_4575388,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Jefferson County &#8211; Voting machine issues heat up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southeasttexaslive.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16386472&#038;BRD=2287&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=512588&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Jefferson County &#8211; County holding payment for voting system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panews.com\/articles\/2006\/03\/28\/news\/4county.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Tarrant County &#8211; Workers run tests on voting equipment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfw.com\/mld\/dfw\/news\/14204039.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>UT: Emery County &#8211; New vote machines ignite feud in Emery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/utah\/ci_3646075\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>UT: Emery County &#8211; Costly fallout in Emery over vote machines <a href=\"http:\/\/deseretnews.com\/dn\/view\/0,1249,635194949,00.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 Jefferson Co. Texas had so many problems with their ES&#038;S voting machines in their primary that they have asked for the system to be fixed. They are withholding final payment until that happens. They also have a runoff election to hold and now ES&#038;S is refusing [&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-2618","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\/2618","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=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}