{"id":3098,"date":"2006-07-20T17:03:53","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T00:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2006-07-20T17:03:53","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T00:03:53","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-july-20-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3098","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For July 20, 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 Tuesday&#8217;s primary in Georgia was not a &#8220;train wreck&#8221; it certainly was not error free. There were many memory card, modem, and other equipment failures. There were also statements about &#8220;vote switching&#8221; on DRE touch-screens. All of those problems were ignored by the Baltimore Sun in an article that was surely written as propaganda pointed toward voters in Maryland. \/ Salon did a good job with an article on yesterday&#8217;s successful congressional hearing on voting systems standards&#8230;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Are the Voting System Standards Helping to Solve the Problems With Our Elections? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1550&#038;Itemid=26\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Paper Trails Blanket Hill Hearing on Voting System Standards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1551&#038;Itemid=26\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Taking the paper trail to Washington. The dangers of electronic voting machines got tallied Wednesday on Capitol Hill. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2006\/07\/20\/voting\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AZ: Yavapai County &#8211; Neo-tech Polls. New voting machines will be in use during primary <a href=\"http:\/\/prescottdailycourier.com\/main.asp?SectionID=1&#038;SubSectionID=1&#038;ArticleID=40476&#038;TM=26607.97\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Alameda County &#8211; Paper Ballots Needed to Avoid Election Fraud <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiaprogressreport.com\/2006\/07\/paper_ballots_n.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Mendocino County &#8211; Voters angry, confused over election changes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willitsnews.com\/localnews\/ci_4075696\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Oakland &#8211; Electorate to decide on runoffs. Instant voting plan on fall ballot, if approved, could save about $200,000 in election costs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/timesstar\/localnews\/ci_4073398\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Diego County &#8211; CA-50 House Race Controversy Continues: Board of Supervisors Refuse Hearings, Activists Plan Demonstration at Registrar&#8217;s Office July 21 <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.usnewswire.com\/GetRelease.asp?id=69536\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Diego County &#8220;\u201c Friday Rally at the Registrar&#8217;s Office! <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3095\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Joaquin County &#8211; County to battle voting problems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/trivalleyherald\/localnews\/ci_4073307\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Pinellas County &#8211; County seeks poll workers for elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbnweekly.com\/pinellas_county\/content_articles\/072006_pco-08.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Bibb County &#8211; Carr expects easy fixes for glitches. Bibb voting issues should be gone by runoff, official says (Server coding problem) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macon.com\/mld\/macon\/15077906.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Clayton County &#8211; Election results delayed by computer, organizational glitch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-daily.com\/homepage\/local_story_200234238.html?keyword=leadpicturestory\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Floyd County &#8211; Returns delayed by bugs. The problem was a single failed memory card that records votes cast at a precinct. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mywebpal.com\/partners\/680\/public\/news734139.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Franklin County &#8211; Printer trouble delays election results <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentmail.com\/and\/home\/article\/0,1886,AND_8195_4856481,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Gwinnett County &#8211; Election counting took all night in Gwinnett (Diebold modem failure) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwinnettdailypost.com\/index.php?s=&#038;url_channel_id=32&#038;url_article_id=17416&#038;url_subchannel_id=&#038;change_well_id=2\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Gwinnett County &#8211; County hopes &#8216;wacky&#8217; vote-count problems are a thing of the past (Diebold modem failure) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/metro\/content\/metro\/gwinnett\/stories\/0720gwxvote.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Georgia&#8217;s computerized voting works well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/bal-md.georgia20jul20,0,2516870.story?coll=bal-local-headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Luzerne County &#8211; Voting Precinct Changes in Luzerne County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnep.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=5177330&#038;nav=5ka4\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WI: Driver&#8217;s license would not be required to vote under rule adopted  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazetteextra.com\/eln_voterid072006.asp\" 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 Tuesday&#8217;s primary in Georgia was not a &#8220;train wreck&#8221; it certainly was not error free. There were many memory card, modem, and other equipment failures. There were also statements about &#8220;vote switching&#8221; on DRE touch-screens. 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