{"id":4112,"date":"2007-02-02T16:38:48","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T00:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2007-02-02T16:38:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T00:38:48","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-february-02-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4112","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For February 02, 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=\"left\"><\/a>According to an article in Hometown Annapolis; &#8220;Addressing the Maryland House Ways and Means Committee yesterday, state Elections Administrator Linda Lamone conceded that a paper voting record will be a part of future Maryland elections, although she still believes in the integrity of the state&#8217;s current system. &#8220;After meeting with you and other policy-makers over the past several days, it is clear that there is a consensus to take the next step towards a voter verifiable voting system,&#8221; Ms. Lamone said. &#8220;As we move forward, I want to work with you to ensure that we do not lose the advantages that we have gained &#8211; a secure, accurate and reliable system &#8211; or make mistakes that will undermine the rights of voters with disabilities or diminish usability.&#8221;&#8221;\u009d Lamone will continue to &#8216;jibber-jabber&#8217; about her paperless Diebold machines until they pry them from her control&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Sarasota Selling Defective Voting Machines<br \/>\nPlus &#8220;\u201c All the dirt on ES&#038;S VP Gary Greenhalgh <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madcowprod.com\/02022007.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AZ: Live video of ballot counting, early-vote notification pushed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/arizonarepublic\/news\/articles\/0202ballots0202.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Nevada County &#8211; Committee inspects voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunion.com\/article\/20070202\/NEWS\/102020179\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Crist and Wexler Announce Plan to Deliver a Paper Trail for Florida <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanchronicle.com\/articles\/viewArticle.asp?articleID=20097\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Election watchdogs like Crist&#8217;s plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/news\/local\/states\/florida\/counties\/broward_county\/16602188.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Goodbye to most touch screens? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2007\/02\/02\/State\/Goodbye_to_most_touch.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Crist casts a ballot for trouble <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2007\/02\/02\/Opinion\/Crist_casts_a_ballot_.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Crist&#8217;s paper trail plan draws raves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/politics\/content\/state\/epaper\/2007\/02\/02\/m1a_voters_0202.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Watchdog groups open to Crist&#8217;s voting-machine plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/16602830.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Election chiefs wary of vote-machine plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/lake\/orl-ltouchscreen0207feb02,0,3106915.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-lake\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Why Voting Needs a Paper Trail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1585198,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Florida Voters Coalition 2007 Position Paper on Voting Systems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2234&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Sarasota Officials Freeze Election Data, as Jennings Battle Wages On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqpolitics.com\/2007\/02\/sarasota_official_put_freeze_o.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Dent promises new voting machines for fall elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venicegondolier.com\/Newsstory.cfm?pubdate=020207&#038;story=tp2vn6.htm&#038;folder=NewsArchive3\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>ID: Vote-by-mail plans advance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesmanreview.com\/idaho\/story.asp?ID=172268\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Collinsville to test new voting devices <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belleville.com\/mld\/belleville\/news\/local\/16604820.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Voting reform seen unlikely until 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/bal-md.election02feb02,0,7678141.story?coll=bal-local-headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Proposals push for early voting, option of using paper ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald-mail.com\/?module=displaystory&#038;story_id=157848&#038;format=html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Voting paper trail option offered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hometownannapolis.com\/cgi-bin\/read\/2007\/02_02-54\/GOV\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Editorial &#8211; Find a better way to get poll workers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=17798851&#038;BRD=1698&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=21846&#038;rfi=6\" 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 According to an article in Hometown Annapolis; &#8220;Addressing the Maryland House Ways and Means Committee yesterday, state Elections Administrator Linda Lamone conceded that a paper voting record will be a part of future Maryland elections, although she still believes in the integrity of the state&#8217;s current [&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-4112","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\/4112","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=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}