{"id":3911,"date":"2006-12-13T16:53:54","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T00:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2006-12-13T16:53:54","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T00:53:54","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-december-13-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3911","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For December 13, 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>Poor software design, serious IT management inefficiencies and an untested deployment of a critical application were all major factors in last month&#8217;s Election Day problems in Denver, according to a scathing report from an IT consultant. The problems led to hours-long delays for voters looking to cast ballots and raised questions about the overall efficacy of e-voting. \/ The challenge is on in Riverside California and it appears that the county supervisors are back-peddling a bit and distancing themselves from the man who made the challenge, Jeff Stone who may be out $1M if he accepts the challenge and the hack is accomplished&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>CA: Riverside County taps elections panel; public challenge to e-voting could come during 3-month investigation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2006\/12\/13\/news\/californian\/18_00_2212_12_06.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Riverside County &#8211; Hacker ready for challenge<br \/>\nOther supervisors distance themselves from Jeff Stone&#8217;s proposal. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/inland\/stories\/PE_News_Local_R_votes13.3b65432.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Riverside County &#8211; &#8216;RIVERSIDE CHALLENGE&#8217;: County Supervisors, Voting Machine Company Begin to go Wobbly <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3910\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Denver &#8220;\u201c Editorial &#8211; Election reform needs careful deliberation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/opinion\/ci_4826928\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Denver County &#8211; Report blames Denver election woes on flawed software <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;taxonomyName=software&#038;articleId=9006038&#038;taxonomyId=18&#038;intsrc=kc_top\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CT: Editorial &#8211; New technology will require planning, training <a href=\"http:\/\/leisure.newstimeslive.com\/opinion\/edit.php?id=1024949\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Editorial &#8211; From Florida, another cautionary voting tale <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/opinion\/ny-oplev135013500dec13,0,1426753.column?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: FL-13 &#8211; MoveOn seeks recount in Florida race <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/national\/20061213-010659-5624r.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: FL-13 &#8211; Sarasota debacle requires a revote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/NewsJournalOnline\/Opinion\/Editorials\/opnOPN88121306.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Iroquois County &#8211; Restitution to be made for election trouble <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watsekatimesrepublic.com\/articles\/2006\/12\/13\/news\/273news03.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: New legislator seeks election-day changes<br \/>\nWants regular ballots cast, more forms of ID accepted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortwayne.com\/mld\/fortwayne\/news\/local\/16230260.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Sullivan County is concerned about paying for new voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midhudsonnews.com\/News\/SCL_HAVA-13Dec06.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 Poor software design, serious IT management inefficiencies and an untested deployment of a critical application were all major factors in last month&#8217;s Election Day problems in Denver, according to a scathing report from an IT consultant. The problems led to hours-long delays for voters looking to cast ballots [&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-3911","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\/3911","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=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}