{"id":3897,"date":"2006-12-09T17:44:30","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T01:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2006-12-09T17:44:30","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T01:44:30","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-december-09-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3897","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For December 09, 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>It seems that the Sarasota election problems along with the overwhelming vote by the people of that county who spoke out and told the county that they want a paper ballot, has influenced other counties in the state. There is now talk of converting from DREs to paper ballots or including a vvpat on the DREs in Volusia, Broward and Miami-Dade Counties. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Statement to the EAC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2107&#038;Itemid=26\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Changes ahead for e-voting; FL-13 controversy continues <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20061209-8388.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: New Voting Machines &#8211; The Gift That Keeps On Costing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2108&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AR: State election results certified<br \/>\nBenton County&#8217;s numbers were last in to secretary of state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwaonline.net\/articles\/2006\/12\/08\/news\/120906lrelexcert.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Broward and Miami-Dade &#8220;\u201c Vote Is Set On Voting Machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/news\/local\/states\/florida\/counties\/broward_county\/16199730.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Election firm says codes are a secret <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061209\/NEWS\/612090365\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Hearing set for challenge to voting machine&#8217;s software <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/politics\/content\/state\/epaper\/2006\/12\/09\/a15a_district_1209.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Volusia County &#8211; Paper ballots may be coming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/NewsJournalOnline\/News\/Headlines\/frtHEAD01POLF120906.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MT: Guest Opinion: Time to review changes in Montana election laws <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billingsgazette.net\/articles\/2006\/12\/09\/opinion\/guest\/52-election.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Opinion &#8211; Voting last, voting smart <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=543122&#038;category=OPINION&#038;newsdate=12\/9\/2006\" 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 It seems that the Sarasota election problems along with the overwhelming vote by the people of that county who spoke out and told the county that they want a paper ballot, has influenced other counties in the state. There is now talk of converting from DREs to paper [&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-3897","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\/3897","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=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}