{"id":3843,"date":"2006-11-25T17:09:44","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T01:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2006-11-25T17:09:44","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T01:09:44","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-november-25-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3843","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For November 25, 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>&#8220;If the success of an election is to be measured according to whether each voter&#8217;s voice is heard, then we would have to conclude that this past election was not entirely a success,&#8221;\u009d said Doug Chapin, director of Electionline.org, a nonpartisan election group that plans to release a report Wednesday with a state-by-state assessment of voting. &#8220;In places where the margin of victory was bigger than the margin of error, we looked away from the problems, but in 2008 we might not have that luxury.&#8221;\u009d The preceding from an article in the NY Times&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Experts Concerned as Ballot Problems Persist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/26\/us\/politics\/26vote.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Election Won, Election System Broken <a href=\"http:\/\/magic-city-news.com\/article_7102.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AL: Montgomery County &#8211; County sells voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061125\/NEWS\/611250337\/1001\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO:  Mesa County&#8217;s voting machines garner high scores for accuracy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gjsentinel.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2006\/11\/25\/11_25_1b_post_election_audit.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Editorial &#8211; Democracy&#8217;s failure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/NewsJournalOnline\/Opinion\/Editorials\/opnOPN52112506.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Did rush to e-vote backfire on state? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2006\/11\/25\/State\/Did_rush_to_e_vote_ba.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Miami-Dade County &#8211; Election chief: Voting went smoothly overall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/16093712.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; County to weigh purchase of voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-herald.com\/NewsArchive2\/112506\/ew2.htm?date=112506&#038;story=ew2.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Voting &#8216;model&#8217; under scrutiny<br \/>\nFlorida&#8217;s highly touted electronic voting machines have thrust the state back into the national spotlight over vote-counting after a close congressional race. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/news\/politics\/elections\/16093133.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Voting machines test starts Tuesday: Jennings&#8217; attorneys want state&#8217;s focus on undervote areas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradenton.com\/mld\/bradenton\/16093699.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8220;\u201c Editorial &#8211; Another Florida fiasco <a href=\"http:\/\/www.registerguard.com\/news\/2006\/11\/25\/ed.edit.flaelex.1125.p1.php?section=opinion\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>ME: Columnist &#8211; A Salute to Paper Ballots and Election Clerks <a href=\"http:\/\/morningsentinel.mainetoday.com\/view\/columns\/3356832.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Luzerne County &#8211; Touch machines get more protection<br \/>\nLuzerne County official says machines will be recalibrated after setup at polling spots. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesleader.com\/mld\/timesleader\/16095050.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>UT: Re-count could be finished next week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldextra.com\/content\/view\/201237\/4\/\" 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 &#8220;If the success of an election is to be measured according to whether each voter&#8217;s voice is heard, then we would have to conclude that this past election was not entirely a success,&#8221;\u009d said Doug Chapin, director of Electionline.org, a nonpartisan election group that plans to release a [&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-3843","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\/3843","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=3843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}