{"id":4007,"date":"2007-01-09T16:53:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T00:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4007"},"modified":"2007-01-09T16:53:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T00:53:45","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-january-09-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4007","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For January 09, 2007"},"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;Voting machines are different from other things bought by a government.  In purchasing voting equipment, election officials must rely heavily on the integrity, honesty and reliability of the vendor selling them this equipment.&#8221;&#8211;Gary Greenhalgh, VP ES&#038;S. The same Gary Greenhalgh who was President of the Election Center and worked for convicted felon Ransom Shoup of Shouptronic fame and with MicroVote, another voting machine company with a checkered past. \/ &#8220;The 2006 election was a success: Most of the millions of Americans who cast their ballots did so with confidence. Despite some isolated problems, exit polls showed that in 98 percent of U.S. jurisdictions, the process worked so well that voter confidence rose to levels not seen since before Election 2000.&#8221; This according to EAC Commissioner and Chief Blower of Smoke, Paul DeGregorio&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: VP at Election Giant ES&#038;S Threatens To Sue MadCowMorningNews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madcowprod.com\/01092007.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: How to hold successful elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070109\/OPINION\/701090322\/1285\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: E-voting controversy overcasts its success <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfservice.org\/article_2299_23.php\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: The Ciber Report? The EAC Now Admits It Really Exists <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4005\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: NEW: E-voting critic tapped as deputy secretary of state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/ci_4974299\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: New Bowen Deputy Forced Schwarzenegger to Pay Millions <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/politicalmuscle\/2007\/01\/bowen_hires_law.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: CA-50 &#8211; Appeal Heard on CA50 Election Case <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/opedne_mark_e___070108_appeal_heard_on_ca50.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Logan County &#8211; Goodbye to a public servant<br \/>\n3-term county clerk elects to leave office on her own terms <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journal-advocate.com\/articles\/2007\/01\/08\/news\/local_news\/local2.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Montrose County &#8211; Election judges&#8217; report mixed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrosepress.com\/articles\/2007\/01\/09\/local_news\/2.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Supreme Court refuses to hear paper trail suit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gainesville.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070109\/LOCAL\/701080361\/-1\/news\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Florida Voters Challenge Judge&#8217;s Shutdown of Election Investigation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infozine.com\/news\/stories\/op\/storiesView\/sid\/20081\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IA: Iowa General Assembly Urged to Upgrade Election Procedures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2168&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Cook County &#8211; Part of vote blame on Orr<br \/>\nElection report faults county clerk, technology firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chicago\/chi-0701090215jan09,1,165486.story?coll=chi-newslocalchicago-hed\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Cook County &#8211; Panel: County clerk, voting-machine maker to blame for glitches  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jg-tc.com\/articles\/2007\/01\/09\/ap-state-il\/d8mhu8fo0.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Delaware County &#8211; Group plans forums on voting machines  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailystar.com\/news\/stories\/2007\/01\/09\/dcforums087.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>UT: Orem to look at using old punch cards for elections <a href=\"http:\/\/deseretnews.com\/dn\/view\/0,1249,650221443,00.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 &#8220;Voting machines are different from other things bought by a government. In purchasing voting equipment, election officials must rely heavily on the integrity, honesty and reliability of the vendor selling them this equipment.&#8221;&#8211;Gary Greenhalgh, VP ES&#038;S. The same Gary Greenhalgh who was President of the Election Center and [&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-4007","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\/4007","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=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}