{"id":3500,"date":"2006-09-19T17:05:36","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T00:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2006-09-19T17:05:36","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T00:05:36","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-september-19-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3500","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For September 19, 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>Today is primary day in Washington and Massachusetts. \/ The Sebastian Co. Arkansas clerk will be telling the SoS that ES&#038;S iVotronic voting machines are NOT accessible. \/ Boulder Co. Colorado expects to have long lines in Nov. due in large part to the size of their ballot which for absentee voters will be up to 4 11&#215;17 inch pages. The time to vote a ballot this size on touch screen voting machines will cause a huge back-up and send many people home without voting. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Federal Voter ID bill To Be Debated On The House Floor Tomorrow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1796&#038;Itemid=26\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Blog &#8211; A Plan to Fix Our Broken Elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blogs\/thebeat?bid=1&#038;pid=122699\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Worst Machine Ever? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectrum.ieee.org\/sep06\/comments\/1570\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Voting Early and Often <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcsdaily.com\/article.aspx?id=091906A\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Tragic similarities between bar games and voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyevergreen.com\/disp_story.php?storyId=18944\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Michael Winship: Still a Few Bugs in the System <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/articles\/contributors\/418\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: The Let America Vote Act.  <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3495\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Computerworld Blogger Responds to Diebold&#8217;s Princeton Report Obfuscation <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3492\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AR: Sebastian County &#8211; Clerk: Voting Machines Not Accessible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swtimes.com\/articles\/2006\/09\/19\/news\/news06.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Voting machine foes cite Net hacker threat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/local\/article\/0,1299,DRMN_15_5004232,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Boulder County &#8211; Election workers expect long lines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longmontfyi.com\/Local-Story.asp?id=9929\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CT: South Windsor approves new voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalinquirer.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=17216627&#038;BRD=985&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=569431&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MA: Early voting smooth; US observers monitor some polling places <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/politics\/candidates\/articles\/2006\/09\/19\/early_voting_smooth_us_observers_monitor_some_polling_places\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MA: Asian group lodges voting complaint <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/politics\/candidates\/articles\/2006\/09\/19\/asian_group_lodges_voting_complaint\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Voters point out election problems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hometownannapolis.com\/cgi-bin\/read\/2006\/09_19-28\/TOP\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Officials look to fix blame for vote mess <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/metro\/20060918-105757-4470r.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Don&#8217;t point fingers; prepare for next election <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/metro\/20060918-105759-8908r.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Baltimore &#8211; Provisional ballots getting close attention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/bal-md.voting19sep19,0,5075073.story?coll=bal-local-headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Montgomery County &#8211; Elections officials in &#8216;blame game&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredericknewspost.com\/sections\/news\/display.htm?storyid=52419\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Prince George&#8217;s County &#8211; Elections Board to count contents of 26 voting machines Wednesday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazette.net\/stories\/091906\/princou171202_31977.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MI: Dickson County &#8211; Clerk in conflict of interest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypress.net\/stories\/articles.asp?articleID=4482\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NM: Outside auditor proposed to canvass November election returns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freenewmexican.com\/news\/49446.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Voting machine details hidden. State tells counties to decide which devices they want before certification process is finished <a href=\"http:\/\/timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=518229&#038;category=STATE&#038;BCCode=&#038;newsdate=9\/19\/2006\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: State: Buy now and take your chances <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=17215722&#038;BRD=248&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=462341&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Casting a wary eye at new voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/poststandard\/stories\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-0\/1158657359185150.xml&#038;coll=1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TN: Sullivan County panel OKs funds for additional voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesnews.net\/article.php?id=3678402\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VA: Call us chad. Problems in the primary in Maryland don&#8217;t bode well for November&#8217;s election <a href=\"http:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/News\/FLS\/2006\/092006\/09192006\/222754\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WA: Machine voting still an option. A voting activist is encouraging people to use one of the four electronic machines set up primarily to help the disabled cast their ballots. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/stories\/06\/09\/19\/100loc_b1ballots001.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WI: Primary Election Plagued By Computer Problems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1793&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WI: Election chief scolded over inflated turnout. Edman says she knew of problem that led to recount, not of its scope <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=499014\" 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 Today is primary day in Washington and Massachusetts. \/ The Sebastian Co. Arkansas clerk will be telling the SoS that ES&#038;S iVotronic voting machines are NOT accessible. \/ Boulder Co. Colorado expects to have long lines in Nov. due in large part to the size of [&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-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-voting-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500","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=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}