{"id":3050,"date":"2006-07-09T17:10:56","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T00:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2006-07-09T17:10:56","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T00:10:56","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-july-09-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3050","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For July 09, 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>While the GOP in Utah is demanding recounts in three races the state has to figure out how to do those recounts. If there is any doubt as to how the state is leaning you only need to listen to the Lt. Gov.&#8217;s spokesman, Joe Demma, who says &#8220;The area we see the most susceptibility to need a recount are the paper ballots.&#8221; \/ A Grand Jury may explore nine issues with one race in Boyd Co. Kentucky where 530 more votes were cast than voters who voted. \/ Wherever the elections are close this fall, they&#8217;ll most likely be scrutinized by armies of lawyers. By setting those January 2006 deadlines for various reforms, &#8220;Congress designed it this way so we would have 2006 be our &#8216;get experience&#8217; year,&#8221; says Doug Lewis, head of the nonprofit Election Center, which trains election officials. Then everything will be smoothed out in time for the 2008 presidential election. Or that&#8217;s the idea, anyway.(USNews)&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Election Corrections. America&#8217;s voting machinery was supposed to be fixed, but the road to reform has been slow going <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/news\/articles\/060709\/17voting.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional:  Touch Screen Voting and the Space Shuttle. High-tech promise, high-tech failure <a href=\"http:\/\/nyvv.org\/blog\/bolipariblog.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Riverside County &#8211; The people can exercise their power <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2006\/07\/09\/opinion\/jacobs\/18_45_537_8_06.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Diego County &#8211; Registrar&#8217;s Office Quotes Three Different Prices for Cost of Hand Count to Voters, Media; No Explanation Given for Disparities! <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3045\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Gwinnett County &#8211; Early primary voting starts Monday  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwinnettdailypost.com\/index.php?s=&#038;url_channel_id=1&#038;url_article_id=17026&#038;url_subchannel_id=&#038;change_well_id=2\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>KY: Boyd County &#8211; Boyd case could get 2nd grand jury <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/mld\/kentucky\/news\/state\/14998200.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TN: Rutherford County &#8211; New election machines turn the page (Microvote Infinity) <a href=\"http:\/\/dnj.midsouthnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060709\/NEWS01\/607090318\/1002\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TN: Shelby County &#8211; Crowded ballot could cause confusion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmcstations.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=5129473\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Amarillo &#8211; Guest Column: New districts in harmony with one person, one vote  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amarillo.com\/stories\/070906\/opi_5011134.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>UT: Republicans Demand Recounts In Three Races <a href=\"http:\/\/kutv.com\/topstories\/local_story_189200242.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>UT: Paper trail: Lieutenant governor dropped the ball on election recounts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/opinion\/ci_4028266\" 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 While the GOP in Utah is demanding recounts in three races the state has to figure out how to do those recounts. If there is any doubt as to how the state is leaning you only need to listen to the Lt. Gov.&#8217;s spokesman, Joe Demma, [&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-3050","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\/3050","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=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}