{"id":3080,"date":"2006-07-17T17:13:14","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T00:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2006-07-17T17:13:14","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T00:13:14","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-july-16-and-17-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3080","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For July 16 and 17, 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>It appears that the ballot format was changed in Tennessee in order to accommodate the voting system vendors. In changing the format officials may now be violating state law. \/ In a next step, after winning against the state of Georgia and their Voter ID law, the ACLU has now announced they are taking action in Missouri \/ The NEA, one of the nation&#8217;s largest unions, has come out in support of a voter verified paper ballot and audits &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Federal Committee To Investigate Sequoia Ownership <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1509&#038;Itemid=51\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: NEA To Write State Election Officials In Support Of Paper Ballots And Audits <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1511&#038;Itemid=26\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: House Passes Reauthorization Of The Voting Rights Act <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1510&#038;Itemid=26\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Blowing the Whistle on Diebold <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthesetimes.com\/site\/main\/article\/2750\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: NEDA Releases New Vote Count Audit Calculator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/WO0607\/S00306.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Reforming American politics: A `one-stop&#8217; guide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotte.com\/mld\/observer\/news\/opinion\/15054807.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Riverside County &#8220;\u201c Opinion &#8211; Throwing good money after bad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2006\/07\/16\/opinion\/jacobs\/71506193035.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Diego County &#8220;\u201c Opinion &#8211; Electile dysfunction in the 50th <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2006\/07\/17\/opinion\/chatfield\/71606174229.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Diego County &#8211; Dean, activists target evoting honesty in California <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/news\/2006\/Dean_activists_target_evoting_honesty_in_0717.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Opinion &#8211; Goodman: We should vote non, nein, nyet on multilingual ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/columnists\/sfl-phoward16jul16,0,3542714.column\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IA: Editorial &#8211; Glitches <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16924728&#038;BRD=2703&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=555110&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>KS: Wyandotte County &#8211; Despite late ballot change, advance voting continues <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascitykansan.com\/articles\/2006\/07\/17\/news\/news1.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MO: ACLU challenging Missouri&#8217;s voter ID law <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/mld\/kansascity\/news\/local\/15057702.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MO: Newton County &#8211; County testing voting machines for handicapped (Sequoia) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neoshodailynews.com\/articles\/2006\/07\/17\/news\/02county.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TN: Ballot Format Debated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmcstations.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=5157512\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PHilippines: Dangers  of leaving vote count to machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/national\/2006\/july\/17\/yehey\/top_stories\/20060717top2.html\" 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 It appears that the ballot format was changed in Tennessee in order to accommodate the voting system vendors. In changing the format officials may now be violating state law. \/ In a next step, after winning against the state of Georgia and their Voter ID law, [&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-3080","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\/3080","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=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}