{"id":2957,"date":"2006-06-13T16:57:02","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T23:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2006-06-13T16:57:02","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T23:57:02","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-june-13-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2957","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For June 13, 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>A must read is an &#8220;Opinion&#8221; piece from a Miami Herald columnist, Fred Grimm. &#8220;Florida[&#8216;s] first priority is to protect the vendors. We&#8217;ll let California worry about the damn voters&#8221; says Grimm. \/ VotersUnite would like to applaud the decision by the National League of Women Voters who have now come out in support of a voter verified paper audit trail \/ EAC Commissioner Ray Martinez has agreed to stay in his position until a suitable replacement can be named and confirmed &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>AL: Barbour County &#8220;\u201c Train Wreck &#8211; Votes counted six days after election  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16781407&#038;BRD=2235&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=439676&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Orange County &#8220;\u201c Train Wreck &#8211; Orange County Registrar of Voters Asked to Respond to Complaints of Widespread Problems at Over 100 Sites in Orange County <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.usnewswire.com\/GetRelease.asp?id=67433\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>SC: Barnwell County &#8220;\u201c Train Wreck &#8211; At least one SC county uses paper ballots in primary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myrtlebeachonline.com\/mld\/myrtlebeachonline\/14808099.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Reid Announces Extension of Commissioner Martinez&#8217;s Tenure On Election Assistance Commission <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electionline.org\/Portals\/1\/docs\/Reid.Press.Release.Martinez.6.13.06.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Verified Voting Applauds League of Women Voters Passage of Resolution in Support of Voter-Verified Paper Records, Audits <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org\/article.php?id=6363\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: How Can You Be Sure? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1385&#038;Itemid=26\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: LTTE &#8211; Holes found in e-voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/2006-06-12-letters-gas-spanish-votes_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Paper Is the New Silicon <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/news\/columns\/0,71092-0.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: CNN&#8217;s Lou Dobbs Reports On The Need For Voter Verified Paper Ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1388&#038;Itemid=26\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AL: Houston County &#8211; Co. Sheriff&#8217;s Race Recount  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtvynews4.com\/home\/headlines\/3039806.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AR: White County &#8211; Voters to decide candidates in runoff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailycitizen.com\/articles\/2006\/06\/13\/news\/top_stories\/top01.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Alameda County &#8211; Vote tally may take awhile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/mld\/cctimes\/news\/14806309.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Opinion &#8211; Elections hacks don&#8217;t guard us against hackers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/14803773.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sancho says state can&#8217;t dictate tests <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060612\/CAPITOLNEWS06\/606120337\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Voting system battle flares <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/NewsJournalOnline\/News\/Headlines\/frtHEAD03POLF061306.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>KS: Douglas County &#8211; New voting machines improve poll position <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ljworld.com\/news\/2006\/jun\/13\/new_voting_machines_improve_poll_position\/?city_local\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>KS: Shawnee County &#8211; Touch-screen voting machines come to Shawnee County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.49abcnews.com\/news\/2006\/jun\/12\/touchscreen_voting_machines_come_shawnee_county\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: 500,000 Hispanic voters sought <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/metro\/20060612-103339-4886r.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>ND: Primary is debut for voting machines designed for disabled (AutoMark) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandforks.com\/mld\/grandforks\/news\/state\/14802706.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: Mercer County &#8211; GOP bashes county clerk over mistakes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16780125&#038;BRD=1697&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=44551&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Queens County &#8211; Protesters say GOP keeping voting machine choice out of reach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midhudsonnews.com\/News\/DC_HAVA_protest-13Jun06.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Allegheny County &#8211; Allegheny County elections board ratifies vote totals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/06164\/697771-103.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Allegheny County &#8211; 17 votes from primary discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/news\/cityregion\/s_457758.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: In high-tech e-voting age, glitches usually low-tech <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/local\/06\/13vote.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Jefferson County &#8211; Commissioners React To Election System Woes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfdm.com\/engine.pl?station=kfdm&#038;id=15200&#038;template=breakoutlocal.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>UT: User errors could hold up line at polls <a href=\"http:\/\/deseretnews.com\/dn\/view\/0,1249,640186515,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WA: King County &#8211; County elections director resigns; takes position as Conny McCormack&#8217;s #2 in LA County <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/273692_logan13.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WI: Winnebago County &#8211; Officials: time of the essence on voting machine issue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenorthwestern.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060613\/OSH0101\/606130354\/1128\/OSHnews\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/div>\n<p><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 A must read is an &#8220;Opinion&#8221; piece from a Miami Herald columnist, Fred Grimm. &#8220;Florida[&#8216;s] first priority is to protect the vendors. We&#8217;ll let California worry about the damn voters&#8221; says Grimm. \/ VotersUnite would like to applaud the decision by the National League of Women [&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-2957","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\/2957","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=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}