{"id":3112,"date":"2006-07-24T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T00:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2006-07-24T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T00:04:23","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-july-24-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3112","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For July 24, 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>One result of the exorbitant cost of purchasing and maintaining DRE voting machines is that counties must now find ways to save money. Texas will have a pilot project in Lubbock Co. that will allow voters to vote in any of 35 super precincts within the county in November. This is already being done in states across the nation and it may open up a new set of, as yet unforeseen, problems. \/ &#8220;Most computer scientists have long viewed Diebold as the poster child for all that is wrong with touch screen voting machines. But we never imagined that Diebold would be as irresponsible and incompetent as they have turned out to be.&#8221; From &#8220;The Diebold Bombshell&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: The Diebold Bombshell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1567&#038;Itemid=51\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AL: Federal judge alters voting plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060724\/NEWS02\/607240321\/1009\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AL: Editorial &#8211; Voter act compliance train wreck looms over state elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuscaloosanews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060724\/NEWS\/607240309\/1027\/EDITORIAL\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AR: Report On Primary Meltdown Rips ES&#038;S <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1566&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AZ: Pima County &#8220;\u201c Opinion &#8211; Touch-screen voting machine needs an OK (Diebold) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azstarnet.com\/allheadlines\/138919\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Diego County &#8211; Challenge to county procedures unfounded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/op-ed\/editorial2\/20060724-9999-mz1ed24botto.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Joaquin County &#8211; Work under way for November vote  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recordnet.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060724\/NEWS01\/607240323\/1001\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IA: Buena Vista County &#8211; BV precinct leaders among first in nation to be cerified <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16959735&#038;BRD=1304&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=180486&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Blackwell&#8217;s dual role criticized. As voter ID rule takes effect, candidate is also election chief <a href=\"http:\/\/news.enquirer.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060724\/NEWS01\/607240324\/1077\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Lawrence County &#8211; Storage units keep track of voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncnewsonline.com\/local\/local_story_205083832.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TN: Bedford County &#8211; Last week for early voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.t-g.com\/story\/1161542.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Casting your vote may get easier with proposed election changes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southeasttexaslive.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16958568&#038;BRD=2287&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=512588&#038;rfi=6\" 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 One result of the exorbitant cost of purchasing and maintaining DRE voting machines is that counties must now find ways to save money. Texas will have a pilot project in Lubbock Co. that will allow voters to vote in any of 35 super precincts within the [&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-3112","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\/3112","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=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}