{"id":2834,"date":"2006-05-15T17:01:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T21:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2006-06-12T10:18:27","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T17:18:27","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-may-15-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2834","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For May 15, 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>Pennsylvania counties used the media to their benefit as they extolled the virtues of their voting systems and tried to convince voters to be confident. They should be concerned about the mix of systems, brand new systems, lack of training and knowledge, and what have proven to be unreliable machines. I hope we get through this one without any &#8220;Train Wrecks&#8221; but I am not confident that will happen. And there is more in the news and blogs about the Diebold security vulnerability&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Diebold &#8211; Backdoor found in Diebold voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.co.uk\/news\/index.cfm?NewsID=14633&#038;Page=1&#038;pagePos=1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Diebold &#8211; IDENTICAL DOCS: PA State &#8216;Directive&#8217; on New Diebold Security Hole a Word-for-Word Parrot of Diebold&#8217;s Own &#8216;Notification&#8217; Sent to State <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002830.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: Harrison County \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd Train Wreck &#8211; Ballot-counting problem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whas11.com\/topstories\/stories\/WHAS11_TOP_ballotcounting.42e3d88f.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TN: Hamilton County \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd Train Wreck &#8211; Election Commission checks paper ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfponline.com\/absolutenm\/templates\/breaking.aspx?articleid=1368&#038;zoneid=1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: E-VOTING TRAIN WRECK 2006: The Wheels Begin to Come Off Diebold As ES&#038;S Meltdown Continues <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1290&#038;Itemid=1032\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: California is Implementing Electronic Voting Reform <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtech.net\/localgovt\/story.php?id=99503\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Alameda County &#8211; County Fills Registrar Spot With Temporary Stand-In <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycal.org\/sharticle.php?id=22213\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Palm Beach County &#8211; Opinion &#8211; Anderson must cast vote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/opinion\/content\/opinion\/epaper\/2006\/05\/15\/a14a_elections_edit_0515.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MS: Alcorn County &#8211; Off-year election raises Corinth&#8217;s costs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djournal.com\/pages\/story.asp?ID=219405&#038;pub=1&#038;div=News\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Report: North Carolina Struggles with Voting Discrimination <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilrights.org\/issues\/voting\/details.cfm?id=43249\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: Passaic County &#8211; Voting machines get cool reception <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bergen.com\/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2MDYmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY5MzUyMjQmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkz\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Across Pa., an array of new voting machines to debut. Eleven systems will be used, many acquired at the last minute. Some predict problems. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/inquirer\/news\/local\/states\/pennsylvania\/counties\/chester_county\/14580498.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Election officials confident primary voting will go smoothly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/news\/election\/s_453908.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Officials: No major problems expected from new voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/mld\/centredaily\/news\/politics\/14585490.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Franklin County &#8211; Election will use new gear (ES&#038;S) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicopiniononline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060515\/NEWS01\/605150310\/1002\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Somerset County &#8211; New voting machines make debut  (Diebold TSx) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyamerican.com\/articles\/2006\/05\/14\/news\/monday\/news02.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Somerset County &#8211; County gears up for Tuesday&#8217;s primary  (Diebold TSx) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyamerican.com\/articles\/2006\/05\/14\/news\/monday\/news01.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: ES&#038;S &#8220;Vendor Bender&#8221; in Wichita Falls Election <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1287&#038;Itemid=51\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>UT: Editorial &#8211; Election choices: Rural counties wise to consider mail voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/opinion\/ci_3823713\" 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 Pennsylvania counties used the media to their benefit as they extolled the virtues of their voting systems and tried to convince voters to be confident. They should be concerned about the mix of systems, brand new systems, lack of training and knowledge, and what have proven [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-voting-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834","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=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}