{"id":3046,"date":"2006-07-08T17:49:01","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T00:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2006-07-08T17:49:01","modified_gmt":"2006-07-09T00:49:01","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-july-08-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3046","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For July 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> In a sharply worded ruling, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Melvin Westmoreland said Friday that Georgia&#8217;s voter ID law &#8220;unduly burdens the fundamental right to vote rather than regulate it&#8221; and would cause &#8220;irreparable harm.&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>GA: Judge blocks voter ID law <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macon.com\/mld\/macon\/14992054.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Georgia voter ID law on hold. Fulton judge says Legislature overstepped its authority <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/services\/content\/metro\/stories\/0708voterid.html?cxtype=rss&#038;cxsvc=7&#038;cxcat=13\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: La Salle County &#8211; Clerk to implement early ballot safeguards <a href=\"http:\/\/mywebtimes.com\/ottnews\/archives\/ottawa\/sections.cgi?prcss=display&#038;id=263484\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>KS: Other counties attack issue differently (Voting machine storage) <a href=\"http:\/\/morningsun.net\/stories\/070806\/loc_20060708003.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Collin County &#8211; Pilot program could change how voters vote (Super polling places) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-gazette.com\/articles\/2006\/07\/08\/mckinney_courier-gazette\/news\/news04.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Jefferson County &#8211; A National Study Says Electronic Voting Machines May Be Vulnerable To Hackers <a href=\"http:\/\/216.87.159.39\/news\/default.asp?mode=shownews&#038;id=11893\" 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 In a sharply worded ruling, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Melvin Westmoreland said Friday that Georgia&#8217;s voter ID law &#8220;unduly burdens the fundamental right to vote rather than regulate it&#8221; and would cause &#8220;irreparable harm.&#8221;&#8230;<\/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-3046","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\/3046","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=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}