{"id":3960,"date":"2006-12-29T17:12:45","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T01:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2006-12-29T17:12:45","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T01:12:45","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-december-29-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3960","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For December 29, 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;It is a matter of fundamental fairness, of good government, and of accountability that we get to the bottom of this election,&#8221; said Rep. Rush Holt. &#8220;It is imperative that every election reflect the will of voters accurately.  In the case of Florida-13, there is no way to know whether the result presented by the Florida Secretary of State is valid &#8211; in fact, there is significant evidence that it is not.  18,000 missing votes in a race certified on the basis of a 369 vote margin is an overwhelming indication that something went wrong.&#8221; \/ Meanwhile the Judge who heard the Jennings evidentiary hearing has ruled against Democracy and for ES&#038;S. Even though the state and ES&#038;S have allowed computer scientists to look at the source code (presently an ongoing process) the judge refused to allow Jennings&#8217; experts the same courtesy.  &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Holt to Support Jennings Contest on House Floor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2150&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Alachua County &#8211; Did voting machines with levers leave trail? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gainesville.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061229\/LOCAL\/612290318\/-1\/news\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: FL-13 &#8211; Using Technology to Undermine the Ballot Box <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanchronicle.com\/articles\/viewArticle.asp?articleID=18411\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: FL-13 &#8211; Jennings OKs Buchanan in House seat temporarily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradenton.com\/mld\/bradenton\/news\/breaking_news\/16345274.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: FL-13 &#8211; Disputed Florida election to spill onto House floor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/29\/AR2006122900839.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Florida Republican Faces House Challenge Next Week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/cq\/2006\/12\/29\/cq_2066.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; House candidate can&#8217;t inspect secret voting software <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/16345903.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Panel set to review voting system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-herald.com\/NewsArchive4\/122906\/tp18de18.htm?date=122906&#038;story=tp18de18.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; D-13 awaits judge&#8217;s ruling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradenton.com\/mld\/bradenton\/news\/local\/16340775.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Judge rules against Jennings, Democrats to seat Buchanan in Congress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/apnews\/stories\/122906\/D8MAO3C85.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8220;\u201c Judge Denies Plaintiff Motion To Review Source Code <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3959\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>KY: Panel to look into paper trail for ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/mld\/kentucky\/news\/state\/16341671.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>RI: Editorial &#8211; Ballot counting methods needs a revamp <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=17643605&#038;BRD=1714&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=73826&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VA: Delegate&#8217;s bill would limit automated political phone calls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypress.com\/news\/local\/virginia\/dp-va--xgr-robocalls1229dec29,0,118647.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia\" 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;It is a matter of fundamental fairness, of good government, and of accountability that we get to the bottom of this election,&#8221; said Rep. Rush Holt. &#8220;It is imperative that every election reflect the will of voters accurately. In the case of Florida-13, there is no way to [&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-3960","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\/3960","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=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}