{"id":4011,"date":"2007-01-10T16:40:29","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T00:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2007-01-11T02:53:35","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T10:53:35","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-january-10-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4011","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For January 10, 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;The manufacturer of voting machines under scrutiny in Sarasota County accused a House Democrat Tuesday of trying to &#8221;intimidate&#8221; and &#8221;unduly influence&#8221; a Florida appeals court. The move by Election Systems &#038; Software comes days after Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, D-Calif., chairwoman of the House Administration Committee, wrote a letter to the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee. She said she was &#8221;concerned&#8221; that a lower court judge had declined to give Democrats access to the software used in voting machines in the contested District 13 congressional election.&#8221; \/\/ &#8220;Voting equipment suppliers built faulty machines and election officials failed to test it properly,&#8221; say studies released Tuesday about the slow vote count in November&#8217;s election.<br \/>\nA laptop-sized piece of equipment at each polling place that was supposed to total up and transmit the results from each precinct apparently had multiple problems&#8221; say reports from Cook Co. Illinois&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Chairman of Barred Election Testing Lab Dumped Stock <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madcowprod.com\/01102007.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Voting System Certification: Who&#8217;s Minding the Store? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2173&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AL: U.S. Justice Department in tug of war with Alabama Supreme Court over Voting Rights Act enforcement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/genera_michael__070110_u_s__justice_departm.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AL: Shelby County &#8211; County reimbursed for voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelbycountyreporter.com\/articles\/2007\/01\/10\/news\/news03.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: CA-50 &#8211; Update on Busby\/Bilbray CA50 Election Contest Appeal <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4002#more-4002\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Report on Denver Electronic Pollbook Problems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2172&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Opinion &#8211; The no-vote option <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070110\/OPINION\/701100480\/1030\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: FL-13 &#8211; Arguments to Void Florida-13 Congress Election <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/HL0701\/S00059.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: FL-13 &#8211; Voting-machine maker blasts politician<br \/>\nThe dispute over the race to replace Rep. Katherine Harris continued with a voting machine manufacturer accusing a congresswoman of trying to intimidate the courts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/16423159.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: FL-13 &#8211; ES&#038;S urges court to ignore letter from congresswoman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070110\/NEWS\/701100484\/1060\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: FL-13 &#8211; ES&#038;S Moves to Strike U.S. House Admin Committee Letter <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4008\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Cook County &#8211; Equipment problems and bad testing lead to vote delays <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailysouthtown.com\/news\/204318,101NWS3.article\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MS: Opinion &#8211; Early voting: Help average voter participate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070110\/OPINION01\/701100325\/1008\/OPINION\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>UT: Orem Council votes for paper ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/deseretnews.com\/dn\/view\/0,1249,650221750,00.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;The manufacturer of voting machines under scrutiny in Sarasota County accused a House Democrat Tuesday of trying to &#8221;intimidate&#8221; and &#8221;unduly influence&#8221; a Florida appeals court. The move by Election Systems &#038; Software comes days after Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, D-Calif., chairwoman of the House Administration Committee, wrote a [&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-4011","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\/4011","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=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}