{"id":3265,"date":"2006-08-18T17:49:14","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T00:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2006-08-18T17:49:14","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T00:49:14","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-august-18-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3265","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For August 18, 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>A recount was done in Georgia and, guess what? The results on the Diebold TS machines were the same the second time they were run-off as the first. It goes to show that computer memory does not change all by itself. That is all it proves because no one knows that these were really the people&#8217;s votes; only the machines. \/ The ACLU filed a lawsuit in Missouri against the state&#8217;s VoterID law. \/ Was the ESI\/Cuyahoga Co. report just a sham to make the voter verified paper audit trail printers look as bad as possible? If so, some seem to believe that. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: News Analysis: The Coming Paper-Trail Debacle?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yubanet.com\/artman\/publish\/article_40865.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: NRSC, DSCC File Joint FEC Inquiry On Recounts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1685&#038;Itemid=26\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Paper Trail Flawed in Ohio Election, Study Finds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;taxonomyId=13&#038;articleId=9002610\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Pueblo County &#8211; It&#8217;s official: Ortiz beats Palacio by 2 votes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chieftain.com\/metro\/1155885842\/4\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Lee County &#8211; Early voters urged to be cautious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-press.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060818\/NEWS0107\/608180415\/1075\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Pinellas County &#8211; Pinellas vote system good to go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2006\/08\/17\/Tampabay\/Pinellas_vote_system_.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Pinellas County &#8211; Database upgrade causes error in Pinellas County ballot counting equipment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabays10.com\/news\/local\/article.aspx?storyid=37773\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Athens-Clark County &#8211; Vote numbers the same after recount <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlineathens.com\/stories\/081806\/news_20060818027.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: Marion County &#8211; Election film draws praise &#8220;\u201c &#8220;By The People&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060818\/COLUMNISTS14\/608180301\/1080\/ENTERTAINMENT03\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MO: ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging Missouri&#8217;s Photo ID Voting Law. Law Violates Missouri Constitution and Disenfranchises Thousands of Missouri Voters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilrights.org\/issues\/voting\/details.cfm?id=46362\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MT: ES&#038;S Electronic Voting Overview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1687&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NH: Supreme Court decision may postpone primary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/article.aspx?headline=Supreme+Court+decision+may+postpone+primary&#038;articleId=02f8b710-01c3-42f0-af58-a8d7ad0bbaa4\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NH: N.H. court says dominant party can&#8217;t have top billing on ballot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesargus.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060818\/NEWS\/608180317\/1003\/NEWS02\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NH: GOP&#8217;s top ballot spot ruled unfair  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashuatelegraph.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060818\/NEWS02\/108180103\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Cuyahoga County &#8211; The Columbus Dispatch Needs Your Help. They&#8217;re looking for a few facts about electronic voting, Diebold, and such. Do we have any we can share? <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3263\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Montgomery County &#8211; Montco would have to spend $1.5M to create voter paper trail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pottstownmercury.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=17070081&#038;BRD=1674&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=18041&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: McLennan County &#8211; Charles Reed, guest column: Voting rights? Blacks want to know where they went <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacotrib.com\/opin\/content\/news\/opinion\/stories\/2006\/08\/18\/08182006wacreed.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 A recount was done in Georgia and, guess what? The results on the Diebold TS machines were the same the second time they were run-off as the first. It goes to show that computer memory does not change all by itself. That is all it proves [&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-3265","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\/3265","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=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}