{"id":3649,"date":"2006-10-21T16:41:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T23:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2006-10-21T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T23:41:03","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-october-21-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3649","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For October 21, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest Blogged by John Gideon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VotersUnite.org\">VotersUnite.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>&#8216;Although most of the attention has focused on paper trails and how vulnerable the machines are to hackers, a professor at Ohio State University and one of his former students are questioning the haphazard way these machines are bought and distributed.&#8217; &#8216;Election officials interviewed all said they bought machines based on the number of registered voters in their county. But each county had a different idea of what the proper ratio of machines to voters should be.&#8217; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Researchers blast voting machine strategy. Devices are bought, placed haphazardly, Ohio professor says. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/nation\/10\/21\/21votingmachines.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Ballot Blunders Abound As Election Nears <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infozine.com\/news\/stories\/op\/storiesView\/sid\/18528\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: NAACP To Monitor Elections Following Primary Problems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=17358112&#038;BRD=1077&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=237827&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Where to put voting booths can anger voters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/mld\/cctimes\/news\/15811182.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Wanted: Graduate Students To Fix E-Voting Machines <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3646\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Feinstein to seek hearings on fair and accurate elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yubanet.com\/artman\/publish\/article_44263.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AR: Few counties report problems leading up to early voting  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansasnews.com\/archive\/2006\/10\/21\/News\/338113.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Write-ins no joke to election officials. With voters now using pens on ballots, misuse has increased, causing delays in counting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/111\/story\/43394.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Yolo County &#8211; E-voting still has quirks. But Yolo County&#8217;s just about done working out kinks in its electronic version of paper ballots. <a href=\"http:\/\/dailydemocrat.com\/news\/ci_4529896\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: McLean County &#8211; Early voter questions machine security <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pantagraph.com\/articles\/2006\/10\/20\/news\/doc453958ba320a8236610584.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Palm Beach County &#8211; Election left off Jupiter ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/tcp\/local_news\/article\/0,,TCP_16736_5082394,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Palm Beach County &#8211; Mistake fractures district&#8217;s voting method <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/politics\/content\/local_news\/epaper\/2006\/10\/21\/s1b_NORTHERN_1021.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: St. Lucie County &#8211; Poll workers can&#8217;t tell voters why Foley&#8217;s name is on ballot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/politics\/content\/state\/epaper\/2006\/10\/21\/a20a_foleysigns_1021.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>KS: New machines alter way we vote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saljournal.com\/?module=displaystory&#038;story_id=8618&#038;format=html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Computer Voting Disks Likely Made For Testers. Md. Assembly Sought Security Check in 2003 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/20\/AR2006102001542.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Election security concerns dismissed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/metro\/20061020-105400-4292r.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Diebold source code leaked again. Another breach on the e-voting front as elections near <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;taxonomyName=government&#038;articleId=9004339&#038;taxonomyId=13&#038;intsrc=kc_top\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Diebold declares machines secure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/elections\/bal-md.voting21oct21,0,2849294.story\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NM: GOP campaign upset over New Mexico absentee voting problem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freenewmexican.com\/news\/51003.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Summit County &#8211; Absentee ballots corrected. Summit County should mail reprinted pages Monday after printer fixes mistakes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/mld\/ohio\/news\/15814784.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Luzerne County &#8211; County is ready for Nov. 7, says election director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=17359481&#038;BRD=2259&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=455154&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Travis County &#8211; November vote in Travis County should be a snap, study finds. Researchers predict short wait times despite lack of voting machines. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/nation\/10\/21\/21austinmachines.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VA: Chesterfield County &#8211; U.S. asked to watch election in Chesterfield <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesdispatch.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&#038;c=MGArticle&#038;cid=1149191271921&#038;path=!news&#038;s=1045855934842\" 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 &#8216;Although most of the attention has focused on paper trails and how vulnerable the machines are to hackers, a professor at Ohio State University and one of his former students are questioning the haphazard way these machines are bought and distributed.&#8217; &#8216;Election officials interviewed all said they bought [&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-3649","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\/3649","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=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}