{"id":3926,"date":"2006-12-18T16:41:48","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T00:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2006-12-18T16:41:48","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T00:41:48","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-december-18-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3926","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For December 18, 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>If there was ever any reluctance to point a finger at Sequoia Voting for the disenfranchisement of thousands of voters in Denver Colorado last month then the time to admit the failure is now. A recently released by city-officials 32-page report found enough blame for county and state officials but pointed the finger squarely at Sequoia. The report blasted Sequoia for &#8220;decidedly subprofessional architecture and construction&#8221;\u009d work on the ePollBook software. &#8220;The ePollBook is a poorly designed and fundamentally flawed application that demonstrates little familiarity with basic tenets of Web development,&#8221;\u009d consultants Fred Hessler and Matt Smith wrote. Is there any reason at all to believe that their voting machine software is any better?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Opinion &#8211; Coalition Paper Ballot Call Spares Vote Villains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/HL0612\/S00267.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Denver County &#8211; Software Blamed for Voting Woes<br \/>\nReport says design flaws, lack of tests on new app led to delays in Denver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;taxonomyName=government&#038;articleId=277179&#038;taxonomyId=13&#038;intsrc=kc_top\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Opinion &#8211; If touch screens work, open &#8216;brain&#8217; and prove it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/opinion\/content\/opinion\/epaper\/2006\/12\/18\/a16a_sarasota_edit_1218.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Miami-Dade County &#8211; Miami Dade Election Reform Coalition Issues Position Paper on Florida Voting Systems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2130&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Miami-Dade County &#8211; 2007 Position Paper on Florida Voting Systems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2129&#038;Itemid=1213\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; 1,000 Rally for Revote in Sarasota County FL-13 Race <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2128&#038;Itemid=27\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: The Cox legacy: Who &#8220;owns&#8221; our votes? <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinejournal.com\/artman\/publish\/article_1540.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MO: Boone County &#8211; Unauthorized spending miffs commissioner  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiatribune.com\/2006\/Dec\/20061218News003.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>UT: High-tech voting comes with big price tag <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldextra.com\/content\/view\/203548\/4\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VT: Recount in auditor&#8217;s race complete, Democrat now in lead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vermontguardian.com\/local\/122006\/AuditorRecountFinal.shtml\" 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 If there was ever any reluctance to point a finger at Sequoia Voting for the disenfranchisement of thousands of voters in Denver Colorado last month then the time to admit the failure is now. A recently released by city-officials 32-page report found enough blame for county and state [&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-3926","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\/3926","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=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}