{"id":2657,"date":"2006-04-05T17:10:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T21:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2006-06-12T19:33:14","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T02:33:14","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-april-05-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2657","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For April 05, 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>It is apparent that even though the vendors had three years to prepare for the large number of machines they are selling, they were not ready. Now counties across the country are going into elections without enough machines or the machines they have were hastily built and are failing. There have been two, large, state primaries so far and two disasters. Though the vendors have done a good job of deflecting blame from the machine failures toward the human factor, they have not been totally successful. Local governments are threatening lawsuits or threatening to withhold money that is owed. Something must be done on a national basis, and very soon, or we are in for a disaster in November&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Citizens Lobby Congress for Reliable Electronic Voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infozine.com\/news\/stories\/op\/storiesView\/sid\/14041\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Why I am for HCPB (hand counted paper ballots) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/opedne_sheila_p_060405_why_i_am_for_hcpb__28h.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Amador County &#8211; Five of 80 new vote machines found faulty (4 AutoMark and 1 ES&#038;S Op-scan) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledger-dispatch.com\/news\/newsview.asp?c=182979\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Leon County &#8211; Sancho to meet with Diebold <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060405\/NEWS01\/604050331\/1010\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Joliet &#8211; Tables turn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suburbanchicagonews.com\/heraldnews\/top\/4_1_JO05_TROY_S1.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: INDIANA TV NEWS: ES&#038;S Breaks State Law &#8212; Again! No Early Voting Ballots Provided, Just Electronic Touch-Screen Voting Machines that Don&#8217;t Work <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002653.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: Marion County &#8211; County Experiences Problems on Day Three of Mock Election <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wishtv.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=4663788\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Take Action for Voter Verified Paper Ballots in Maryland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1162&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MI: Voting machines worry county&#8217;s clerks (ES&#038;S) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060405\/NEWS01\/604050375\/1003\/NEWS\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MN: Bill expands list of acceptable voter ID <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandforks.com\/mld\/grandforks\/news\/state\/14271657.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MO: St Louis &#8211; St. Louisans go for touch-screens, officials say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/metroeast\/story\/D5F77BC2DC4B7918862571470003E143?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Experts Release New Report Underscoring Continuing Need for Voting Rights Enforcement in New York <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilrights.org\/issues\/voting\/details.cfm?id=41995\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Erie County &#8211; Will Erie County Be Able to Comply with Federal Elections Reforms? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wivb.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=4726938\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Nassau &#8211; New Nassau vote mandated <a href=\"http:\/\/timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=467979&#038;category=RENSSELAER&#038;BCCode=&#038;newsdate=4\/5\/2006\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Foes, watchdog say Blackwell wrong <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/localnews\/content\/localnews\/daily\/0405blackwellreax.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Washington County &#8211; Omission leaves elections board short a vote counter  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariettatimes.com\/news\/story\/new66_45200681356.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Counties struggle to meet voting machine rules <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/columnists\/all-2struggleapr05,0,2796507.column?coll=all-randomcolumnistsnews-misc\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Allegheny County &#8211; County draws backup voting machine plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/06095\/679445-85.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Allegheny County &#8211; County will buy a different brand of voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/tribune-review\/trib\/pmupdate\/s_440483.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Allegheny County &#8211; Onorato Not Happy About Changing Voting System <a href=\"http:\/\/kdka.com\/local\/local_story_095143836.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Allegheny County &#8211; County to buy 4,700 touch-screen voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/mld\/centredaily\/news\/politics\/14271255.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Carbon County &#8211; Carbon practices voting on new machines (Diebold) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcall.com\/sports\/college\/all-b1_1votingapr05,0,5341978.story?coll=all-sportscollege-hed\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Montgomery County &#8211; County to test voting machines (Sequoia Advantage) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesherald.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16430320&#038;BRD=1672&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=33380&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Grimes County &#8211; Voting machine quandary persists  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navasotaexaminer.com\/articles\/2006\/04\/04\/news\/news02.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WI: Poll access an issue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/tct\/news\/index.php?ntid=79051&#038;ntpid=2\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thailand &#8211; Thailand Very Sorry It Bought Voting Machines from Florida <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watleyreview.com\/2006\/040406-1.htm\" 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 It is apparent that even though the vendors had three years to prepare for the large number of machines they are selling, they were not ready. Now counties across the country are going into elections without enough machines or the machines they have were hastily built [&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-2657","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\/2657","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=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}