{"id":3766,"date":"2006-11-08T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T00:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3766"},"modified":"2006-11-09T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T01:21:00","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-november-8-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3766","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For November 8, 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;Hey! Let&#8217;s take all of our polling sites and consolidate them into a few large, super poll sites. Then we have thousands of voters vote in the same location on the same machines. We will save all kinds of money.&#8217; That&#8217;s Denver Colorado and everything worked great until the machines began to fail and the process to get voters in and out slowed to a crawl. Result: Lines 4 blocks long. Day After Result: &#8220;Denver Auditor Dennis Gallagher today asked that Denver&#8217;s two elected voting commissioners resign and that the mayor fire Clerk and Recorder Wayne Vaden as well as the entire senior staff of the election commission.&#8221; \/ Over 18,000 under votes were recorded in the FL-13 CD. In a race that has less than 500 votes difference. Unfortunately most of the votes were cast on paperless ES&#038;S voting machines. The software needs to be removed from the machines and closely inspected by experts. This race will not be decided for awhile&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: FBI probing reports of dirty tricks as poll workers struggle with machine problems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061107\/UPDATE\/611070430\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Lawmakers among those snagged by voting problems <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&#038;storyID=2006-11-08T014052Z_01_N07414669_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-ELECTIONS-PROBLEMS.xml&#038;WTmodLoc=PolNewsHome_C2_politicsNews-6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Blogs Take Lead in Reporting Polling Problems, With Supporting Evidence on YouTube <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/08\/us\/politics\/08blogs.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Glitches made voting tough for some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politicselections\/vote2006\/2006-11-07-voting-usat_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Problems Lead 8 States to Extend Some Voting Hours <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/07\/washington\/07cnd-day.html?em&#038;ex=1163134800&#038;en=ce1150fe80cc8d11&#038;ei=5087%0A\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: &#8216;Vote flipping&#8217; emerges as continuing problem in e-voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;taxonomyId=13&#038;articleId=9004858&#038;intsrc=hm_topic\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: FBI probing complaints in 2 states<br \/>\nIntimidating calls, misleading ballots among &#8216;dirty tricks&#8217; reported. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbendtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061108\/NEWS07\/611080333\/-1\/News01\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AR: Benton County &#8211; Printers Jam Some Voting Machines in Benton County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansasbusiness.com\/article.aspx?aID=96136.18745.108277\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AR: Clark County &#8211; Wieman: software &#8216;not functioning as it should&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siftingsherald.com\/articles\/2006\/11\/08\/news\/news2.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Polling Glitches Plague Voters Throughout California <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc11.com\/politics\/10269023\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Absentee ballots flood offices <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/trivalleyherald\/ci_4622749\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Bay Area &#8211; Snafus, irregularities at Bay Area polling stations <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/11\/07\/BAGROM7KQ27.DTL&#038;type=politics\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Contra Costa County &#8211; Some East Bay voters might have used wrong ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/breaking_news\/15953481.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Bernardino County &#8211; Broken machines frustrate Barstow area voters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertdispatch.com\/2006\/116300484673347.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Diego County &#8211; Polls Close; Voting Problems Reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/10268602\/detail.html\n\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nCA: San Diego County &#8211; Balky machines frustrated some county voters  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/politics\/20061108-9999-7n8vote.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Mateo County &#8211; Ballot scanners jam at Bay Area polling places <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/ci_4618496\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Denver &#8211; Voting computers overwhelmed early, late <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/outdoors\/ci_4616285\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Denver &#8211; Voters face long wait as polls close <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/music\/ci_4616285\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Denver &#8211; Voters wait in the dark for a chance to vote in Denver, suburbs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greeleytrib.com\/article\/20061107\/NEWS\/61107013\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Denver &#8211; Common Cause reports e-voting snafus nationwide<br \/>\nCoast-to-coast problems involve flipped votes, machine failures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9004848&#038;intsrc=hm_list\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Denver &#8211; Inquiry into vote glitches <a href=\"http:\/\/test.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_4623732\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Douglas County &#8211; Shortage of voting machines blamed for Douglas County delays <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/elections\/article\/0,2808,DRMN_24736_5128557,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Dozens of voters complain about glitch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061108\/NEWS\/611080885\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Democrat disputes Republican win of Harris&#8217; seat; recount likely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/mld\/cctimes\/news\/politics\/15961488.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Jennings lawyer expects &#8216;unprecedented&#8217; challenges in recount <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061108\/BREAKING10\/61108006&#038;start=1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Dent planning for recount; Jennings exploring legal avenues <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061108\/BREAKING20\/61108018\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Sarasota congressional race heads to recount <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-herald.com\/breakingnews\/bn_454.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IA: Voting snags are resolved quickly, Iowans report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061108\/NEWS09\/611080391\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Cook County has another rocky day at polls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-0611080116nov08,1,147132.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Cook County &#8211; Stroger leads in Cook board president race <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/cgi-bin\/news.pl?id=22785\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Kane County &#8211; Voting problems plague Kane <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suburbanchicagonews.com\/couriernews\/news\/127838,AU07_problem_web.article\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: Machine problems, ballot probe mar voting in Indiana counties <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortwayne.com\/mld\/newssentinel\/news\/local\/15953779.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: Delaware County &#8211; County Leaders Must Decide on Provisional Ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wishtv.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=5651188\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: Marion County &#8211; County searches for misplaced voting machine memory cards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wthr.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=5651125&#038;nav=9Tai\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: TrueVoteMD Reports Problems on Election Day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2009&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MI: Michigan GOP Sues Democrats Over Poll Watchers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/10267417\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MO: Some voting problems reported in Missouri <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061107\/BREAKING01\/61107076\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MO: St. Louis County fails to avoid ballot, voting machine problems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trumanindex.com\/media\/storage\/paper607\/news\/2006\/11\/07\/ElectionCoverage\/St.Louis.County.Fails.To.Avoid.Ballot.Voting.Machine.Problems-2445870.shtml?norewrite200611080146&#038;sourcedomain=www.trumanindex.com\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MT: Software flub leads to county recount<br \/>\nProblems delay results elsewhere in the state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billingsgazette.net\/articles\/2006\/11\/08\/news\/local\/22-flub.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: New Jersey Voters Have Trouble At The Polls <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs3.com\/topstories\/local_story_311200425.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NM: County results await hand count  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krqe.com\/expanded.asp?RECORD_KEY%5BNews%5D=ID&#038;ID%5BNews%5D=18070\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Blackwell orders election results under wraps until 9 p.m. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusdispatch.com\/election\/election.php?story=225026\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Cuyahoga County &#8211; Ohio embarrassed by Cuyahoga again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=17435533&#038;BRD=1698&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=21846&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Delaware County ballots mistakenly include campaign slogan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/mld\/ohio\/sports\/golf\/15950683.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: GOP official reports glitches <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribune-democrat.com\/local\/local_story_312010211.html?keyword=topstory\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Lancaster and Lebanon Counties &#8211; 2 Pa. counties extend voting due to machine glitches <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/mld\/centredaily\/15953213.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Lancaster County &#8211; Human error blamed for eScan problems <a href=\"http:\/\/local.lancasteronline.com\/4\/27601\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Montgomery County &#8211; Some electronic voting machines not &#8216;up to date&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/news\/cityregion\/s_478735.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Westmoreland County &#8211; E-voting not easy in Westmoreland County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/news\/election\/s_478760.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TN: Knox County &#8211; Technical glitch stalls count on more than 2,500 votes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wate.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=5650580\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Glitch forces manual tabulation for U.S. House race <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/APStories\/stories\/D8L8MD2O0.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Human error to blame for wrong vote tally in south Texas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfw.com\/mld\/startelegram\/news\/state\/15963030.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Programming error miscounts votes in south Texas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/politics\/4320960.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: East Texas county uses blank paper after ballots run out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/APStories\/stories\/D8L8PJL82.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VA: ELECTION TROUBLES AND TURNOUT: Voter fraud complaints escalate<br \/>\nIn Maymont area, confusion the result of mistake by Democrats <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesdispatch.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&#038;%09s=1045855935264&#038;c=MGArticle&#038;cid=1149191572108&#038;path=!news!politics\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VA: Virginia Senate Recount &#8212; Frequently Asked Questions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/11\/08\/AR2006110801491.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 &#8216;Hey! Let&#8217;s take all of our polling sites and consolidate them into a few large, super poll sites. Then we have thousands of voters vote in the same location on the same machines. We will save all kinds of money.&#8217; That&#8217;s Denver Colorado and everything worked great until [&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-3766","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\/3766","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=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}