{"id":4035,"date":"2007-01-15T16:36:39","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T00:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2007-01-15T17:54:38","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T01:54:38","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-january-14-and-15-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4035","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For January 14 and 15, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

<\/a>“”\u00a6”\u00a6.all types of conniving methods are still being used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters. The denial of this sacred right is a tragic betrayal of the highest mandates of our democratic traditions and its is democracy turned upside down.
\nSo long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind “\u201d it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact “\u201d I can only submit to the edict of others. So our most urgent request to the president of the United States and every member of Congress is to give us the right to vote.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., excerpted from a speech<\/a> that Dr. King delivered before the Lincoln Memorial at the March on Washington, on May 17, 1957, three years after Brown v. Board of Education and eight years before the enactment of the Voting Rights Act….<\/p>\n

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  • NAtional: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Give Us The Ballot LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NAtional: Wrong Winner Chosen Twice by Same Voting Machine LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NAtional: Feds tell e-voting testing companies to watch their images LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NAtional: EAC scandal grows–Sarasota’s “undervote” voting machine models certified by banned lab, Ciber, before untested upgrades LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • CA: Riverside County – Hacking debate gains traction LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • CO: Denver – More stability needed in elections office LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • FL: Editorial – ‘No choice?’ Good choice LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • FL: Martin County – Voters ask for paper trail, but costs high LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • IL: Technology (and booze): Our friends on election day LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • MT: Sheridan County – Sheridan vote review now opened LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NC: Forsyth County – Board of Elections wants public help LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NY: Tech Support “\u201c E-Vote LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • OH: Butler County – Don’t rush to build new elections office LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • PA: Centre County – County group to tell state official of voting concerns LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • CAnada – E-voting: the next wave of democracy?\t LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/div>\n

    **”Daily Voting News” 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 “Daily Voting News” may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org<\/a> or BradBlog.Com<\/a>**<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org “”\u00a6”\u00a6.all types of conniving methods are still being used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters. The denial of this sacred right is a tragic betrayal of the highest mandates of our democratic traditions and its is democracy turned upside down. So long as I do not firmly […]<\/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-4035","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\/4035","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=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}