{"id":2802,"date":"2006-05-08T17:15:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T21:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2006-06-12T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T23:31:29","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-may-08-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2802","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For May 08, 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&#8217;s not often that we see the corporate main stream media actually doing a lot of research for an article. Today we have an exception in an article in the Rocky Mountain News from Denver all about Sequoia&#8217;s recent failures and even their brush with a bribery scandal in 2001. Texas counties have been in the early voting process for the past week with some ES&#038;S counties only able to use paper ballots due to non-arrival of ballot programming. Arkansas began early voting today with many counties using paper ballots because of the greed of their vendor, ES&#038;S. In fact, even the paper ballots printed by ES&#038;S were &#8220;Like they threw a muffin in the air and let the pieces fall wherever.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>AR: Train Wreck &#8211; Early Voting Begins Today (ES&#038;S) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todaysthv.com\/news\/news.aspx?storyid=28102\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AR: Carroll County \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd Train Wreck &#8211; Machines &#8216;without brains,&#8217; error-riddled ballots delay electronic voting (ES&#038;S) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekaspringstimesecho.com\/articles\/2006\/05\/08\/news\/we1.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AR: Marion County \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd Train Wreck &#8211; Early voting begins (ES&#038;S got the county ONE iVotronic for early voting) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baxterbulletin.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060508\/NEWS01\/60508001\/1002\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Cuyahoga County \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd Train Wreck &#8211; Cuyahoga County finishes tabulating votes (120 hours after the polls closed) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/mld\/beaconjournal\/14525553.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Cuyahoga County \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd Train Wreck &#8211; Finally: Election results are final <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/plaindealer\/index.ssf?\/base\/cuyahoga\/114707725069570.xml&#038;coll=2\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Bexar County \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd Train Wreck &#8211; County voting machines to be ready for Saturday elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/metro\/stories\/MYSA050806.votingmachines.en.20babc35.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Williamson County \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd Train Wreck &#8211; Williamson Co. elections head resigns abruptly.<br \/>\nBorofsky leaves just days before elections. (ES&#038;S) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/local\/05\/9RESIGN.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Two days in the field with ES&#038;S OpScan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1270&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: E-VOTE TRAIN WRECK 2006: Another Week, Another Wild \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd and Unfortunate \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd Ride\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002794.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AR: Arkansans increasingly head to polls early for elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbcommercial.com\/articles\/2006\/05\/07\/ap-state-ar\/d8hffae00.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Denver &#8211; Voting machine glitches tally up. Denver City Council to discuss purchase for next election (Sequoia) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/elections\/article\/0,2808,DRMN_24736_4682030,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Denver &#8211; Denver council votes on voting machines (Sequoia) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/local\/article\/0,1299,DRMN_15_4682919,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: $13M No Bid E-Pollbook Deal with Diebold Draws Fire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1271&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MI: Increasing access to voting: Disabled voters get more privacy (AutoMark) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mininggazette.com\/stories\/articles.asp?articleID=1853\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MO: Boone County &#8211; Voting machine cost concerns county. Federal money won&#8217;t pay for all of a mandated upgrade. (ES&#038;S \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd AutoMark and PBOS) <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiamissourian.com\/news\/story.php?ID=19805\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MS: Mississippi voters learning to use touch-screen machines (Diebold TSx) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060508\/NEWS\/605080361\/-1\/FEAT07\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Two days in the field with ES&#038;S OpScan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1270&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Election canvasses set <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsargus.com\/news\/archives\/2006\/05\/08\/election_canvasses_set\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NE: Douglas County &#8211; New Technology To Greet Douglas County Voters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ketv.com\/politics\/9178577\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Democrats call for Blackwell to step aside in election probe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/mld\/cctimes\/news\/politics\/14530648.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Lucas County \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd Editorial &#8211; Election lessons learned <a href=\"http:\/\/toledoblade.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060508\/OPINION02\/605080325\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Chester County &#8211; Electronic voting machines ready for May 16 primary (ES&#038;S iVotronic) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylocal.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16601280&#038;BRD=1671&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=17782&#038;rfi=6\" 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&#8217;s not often that we see the corporate main stream media actually doing a lot of research for an article. Today we have an exception in an article in the Rocky Mountain News from Denver all about Sequoia&#8217;s recent failures and even their brush with a [&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-2802","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\/2802","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=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}