{"id":3525,"date":"2006-09-24T17:06:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T00:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2006-09-24T17:06:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T00:06:26","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-september-24-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3525","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For September 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>From an article on the Colorado lawsuit; &#8220;Whenever you hear an assertion from an election official of why you should trust their machines,&#8221; [Expert witness Dan] Wallach said, &#8220;inevitably it boils down to &#8216;because they are federally certified.&#8221;&#8216; The reliance on federal testing for computer vulnerabilities was called into question during the case. &#8220;The evidence is that there were pretty significant areas at the federal level where such testing simply wasn&#8217;t done,&#8221; Judge Manzanares said in his ruling. \/ Why has Sequoia misled in a recent press release concerning their products and the Brennan Center Report? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Sequoia Misleads New York <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amhersttimes.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2867&#038;Itemid=27\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Over 1,400 Sign Up For New &#8220;Pollworkers For Democracy&#8221; Project In First Week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1813&#038;Itemid=27\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Focus on election law stirs up legal frenzy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesreporter.com\/index.php?ID=58796&#038;r=0\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Rolling Stone interviews a Diebold whistleblower <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/09\/24\/rolling-stone-interviews-a-diebold-whistleblower\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Experts predict voting glitches <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060924\/LOCAL17\/609240486\/1012\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: The Big Gamble On Electronic Voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amhersttimes.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2862&#038;Itemid=27\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Vote ruling dims mood. A judge&#8217;s &#8220;nuanced&#8221; decision allows electronic ballots Nov. 7 but then requires recertification. Officials say everything&#8217;s secure. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_4388095\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Electronic voting faces new scrutiny <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.augusta.com\/stories\/092406\/met_97965.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Nation needs comprehensive voting reform <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gainesvilletimes.com\/news\/stories\/20060924\/opinion\/126412.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Opinion &#8211; Has Florida come to Maryland? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/oped\/bal-op.voting24sep24,0,4913182.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Opinion &#8211; Absentee leadership <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/bal-ed.ballot24sep24,0,6396204.story?coll=bal-opinion-headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Our Say: Election foul-ups won&#8217;t be fixed by grandstanding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hometownannapolis.com\/cgi-bin\/read\/2006\/09_24-62\/OPN\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Harford County &#8211; Primary tally done; outcome stays the same. Glitch forced some to cast provisional ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/harford\/bal-ha.provisional24sep24,0,5788196.story?coll=bal-local-harford\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Pr. George&#8217;s Voting Glitches Highlight Training Problems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/23\/AR2006092300988.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Opinion &#8211; Election Day too special to become just a matter of personal convenience <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=17240119&#038;BRD=1699&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=46368&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OR: Editorial &#8211; Chasing phantom fraud <a href=\"http:\/\/www.registerguard.com\/news\/2006\/09\/24\/ed.edit.voterid.0924.p1.php?section=opinion\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TN: Group supports vote-count lawsuits <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/mca\/local\/article\/0,2845,MCA_25340_5017107,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TN: Memphis &#8211; Protestors Want Election Results Thrown Out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myeyewitnessnews.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?content_id=022178FA-C0DF-432B-AD86-65ACE06A19F5\" 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 From an article on the Colorado lawsuit; &#8220;Whenever you hear an assertion from an election official of why you should trust their machines,&#8221; [Expert witness Dan] Wallach said, &#8220;inevitably it boils down to &#8216;because they are federally certified.&#8221;&#8216; The reliance on federal testing for computer vulnerabilities [&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-3525","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\/3525","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=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}