{"id":4100,"date":"2007-01-30T21:24:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T05:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2012-09-07T12:25:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T19:25:20","slug":"floridas-new-governor-to-recommend-paper-based-optical-scan-voting-system-for-entire-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4100","title":{"rendered":"FLORIDA’S NEW GOVERNOR TO RECOMMEND PAPER-BASED OPTICAL SCAN VOTING SYSTEM FOR ENTIRE STATE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blogged by Brad — with elan — from the road…<\/i><\/p>\n

This is huge<\/a>. Though it was buried in today’s Daily Voting News<\/a>, as it broke late, it is most decidedly siren-worthy! Big time!<\/p>\n

Florida’s new Republican Governor Charlie Crist, working with Democratic U.S. House Member Robert Wexler, will reportedly be recommending millions of dollars to replace every one of Florida’s horrendous touch-screen voting machines with optical-scan systems featuring: A PAPER BALLOT<\/u> FOR EVERY VOTE CAST!<\/p>\n

Gov. Charlie Crist is preparing to recommend that the controversial touch-screen voting machines used in Broward, Palm Beach, and 13 other Florida counties be scrapped and replaced with optical scanners that would count paper ballots.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton, said the governor would recommend spending at least $20 million on optical scanners for the 15 counties with touch-screen machines when he presents his proposed budget to the state Legislature on Friday.<\/p><\/div>\n

Palm Beach Post<\/em> confirms<\/a>. So does AP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Don’t be confused by the references to “paper trails” in the linked articles. Optical scan systems use a paper BALLOT, not a “paper trail”.<\/p>\n

Free at last? Free at last? Thank God Almighty the Sunshine State may<\/i> be free at last!?<\/p>\n

We shall see. But this could<\/em> be the best news to come down the pike for democracy fans since Woman’s Suffrage. We’ll be watching. And then, of course, we’ve got to make certain there are appropriate audits and other measures to ensure the op-scan systems aren’t hacked as they were in Leon County, Florida, last December.<\/p>\n

But a path is built one stone at a time. And this could be a very<\/i> big stone. So for tonight, we’ll go to sleep, for a change, with a smile on our face…God Bless America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blogged by Brad — with elan — from the road… This is huge. Though it was buried in today’s Daily Voting News, as it broke late, it is most decidedly siren-worthy! Big time! Florida’s new Republican Governor Charlie Crist, working with Democratic U.S. House Member Robert Wexler, will reportedly be recommending millions of dollars to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[565,122,28,16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlie-crist","category-election-2008","category-election-reform","category-florida"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}