{"id":2989,"date":"2006-06-21T17:01:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T00:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2006-06-24T16:42:17","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T23:42:17","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-june-21-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2989","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For June 21, 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>The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the claim of Florida Congressman Robert Wexler in ruling Tuesday that paperless machines don&#8217;t violate Floridians&#8217; constitutional rights. Congressman Wexler is now considering an appeal to the Supreme Court.  &#8220;Primary elections will give people a chance to &#8216;test drive&#8217; the new voting machines,&#8221; says Thad Hall, a voting expert and assistant professor of political science at the University of Utah. Since when are primaries, or any other election for that matter, a time to &#8216;test drive&#8217; voting machines? Voters are not &#8216;test dummies&#8217; and no election is a test medium. I would think a &#8216;voting expert&#8217; would understand that&#8230;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Eminent Computer Scientist Criticizes ES&#038;S &#8220;Real Time Audit Log&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1414&#038;Itemid=51\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Ahead of the Curve on Voting Reform <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcf.org\/list.asp?type=NC&#038;pubid=1339\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Primaries Will Test Electronic Voting Technologies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/view\/521451\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AR: Lagrone blames Daniels for election problems, suggests reforms  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansasnews.com\/archive\/2006\/06\/21\/News\/336677.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AR: Lagrone lashes out at Daniels <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwanews.com\/adg\/News\/158294\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AZ: Arizona Legislature Votes For SB-1557. Law Guarantees VVPAT, Hand Audits, and Durable Paper Ballots <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2985\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AZ: Election Reform Victory in Arizona <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1413&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Kern County &#8211; Supervisors eat crow, apologize to election boss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakersfield.com\/102\/story\/58010.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Riverside County &#8211; Distrust spurs absentee voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2006\/06\/21\/opinion\/commentary\/20_51_146_20_06.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Diego County &#8211; Outcome of close races is not likely to change, official says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/politics\/20060621-9999-1m21ballot.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Boulder County &#8211; No bid process for ballot printer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longmontfyi.com\/Local-Story.asp?id=8353\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Denver &#8211; City auditor sees election trouble <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/elections\/article\/0,2808,DRMN_24736_4790361,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Florida Audit Reveals Serious Problems With State&#8217;s Election Administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1415&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Wexler may take voting machines case to U.S. Supreme Court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradenton.com\/mld\/bradenton\/news\/breaking_news\/14869941.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Voting petition signatures may not be enough <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venicegondolier.com\/NewsArchive3\/062106\/vn1.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: Lake County &#8211; Election board says mistakes don&#8217;t equal dishonesty <a href=\"http:\/\/nwitimes.com\/articles\/2006\/06\/21\/news\/lake_county\/81187d6566bd0a3f86257193007aa0c3.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: A Chance to Mark the Ballot by Puffing Through a Straw (Avante) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/21\/nyregion\/21vote.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Centre County &#8211; County voters to see touch-screens (ES&#038;S iVotronics) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/mld\/centredaily\/news\/14868570.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WI: Winnebago County &#8211; Grant, Diebold get nods in county. County Board votes 28-10 to approve reimbursable purchase for touch-screen ballot machines (Diebold TSx) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenorthwestern.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060621\/OSH0101\/606210491\/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 The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the claim of Florida Congressman Robert Wexler in ruling Tuesday that paperless machines don&#8217;t violate Floridians&#8217; constitutional rights. Congressman Wexler is now considering an appeal to the Supreme Court. &#8220;Primary elections will give people a chance to &#8216;test [&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-2989","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\/2989","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=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}