{"id":4104,"date":"2007-01-31T16:38:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T00:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2007-01-31T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T00:38:30","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-january-31-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4104","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For January 31, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest Blogged by John Gideon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VotersUnite.org\">VotersUnite.org<\/a> and <a href= \"http:\/\/www.VoteTrustUSA.org\">VoteTrustUSA.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>The news today was overwhelmed by the announcement that Florida&#8217;s Governor has said he will recommend replacing all of the state&#8217;s Direct Recording Electronic voting machines with optical-scan machines. According to the Miami Herald [see below] Gov. Charlie Crist will recommend on Thursday that Florida&#8217;s problem-plagued touchscreen voting machines should go the way of the butterfly ballot &#8212; the trash heap &#8212; and his proposed budget will recommend replacing them all with optical scan machines, which produce a paper trail, at a cost of up to $35 million&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>AR: Benton County &#8211; Commission Seeks To Smooth Election Process <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwaonline.net\/articles\/2007\/01\/31\/news\/013107bzelectioncomm.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Contra Costa County &#8211; Clerk vows to improve voter access<br \/>\nRICHMOND: Poorly placed polling booths, last-minute changes have hampered local electoral participation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/mld\/cctimes\/news\/local\/states\/california\/16586739.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Denver &#8211; Voters toss out election panel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/sportscolumnists\/ci_5122912\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Crist wants voting paper trail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/16584583.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Congressman says Crist to seek money for optical voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradenton.com\/mld\/bradenton\/news\/breaking_news\/16583093.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Crist expected to back voting switch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/politics\/content\/state\/epaper\/2007\/01\/31\/m1a_SCAN_0131.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Touch-screen voting machines on the way out? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/local\/broward\/sfl-cvoting31jan31,0,5001761.story?coll=sfla-news-broward\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Q &#038; A on optical scanning machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/local\/broward\/sfl-cvotingbox31jan31,0,4174023.story?coll=sfla-news-broward\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Crist-Wexler Proposal Could Help End Long Nightmare for Florida Voters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfaw.org\/pfaw\/general\/default.aspx?oid=23483\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Florida governor wants to dump touch-screen voting <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&#038;storyID=2007-01-31T172532Z_01_N31148174_RTRIDST_0_FLORIDA-BALLOTS.XML\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Fla. governor looks to replace touch-screen voting in 17 counties <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9009900&#038;intsrc=news_ts_head\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Florida&#8217;s New Governor To Recommend Paper-Based Optical Scan Voting System For Entire State! <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4100\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Secrets of Voting Machine Testing Exposed! <a href=\"http:\/\/nyvv.org\/blog\/bolipariblog.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 and VoteTrustUSA.Org The news today was overwhelmed by the announcement that Florida&#8217;s Governor has said he will recommend replacing all of the state&#8217;s Direct Recording Electronic voting machines with optical-scan machines. According to the Miami Herald [see below] Gov. Charlie Crist will recommend on Thursday that Florida&#8217;s problem-plagued [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4104","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\/4104","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=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}