{"id":4172,"date":"2007-02-21T16:33:53","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T00:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2007-02-22T04:18:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T12:18:19","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-february-21-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4172","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For February 21, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

<\/a>An article in today’s Oakland Tribune relate<\/a>s, “In a blow-by-blow on his school Web page and in a separate filing for an electronic voting lawsuit in New Jersey superior court, computer science professor Andrew Appel [Princeton University] details how he was able to purchase five of the Oakland-based company’s AVC Advantage machines off a Web site auctioning government surplus items, pry open the backs and access the computer chips that control the vote count. He said security features touted by the Oakland-based company on its Web site were not in place on the machines.”\u009d Meanwhile Sequoia ‘spokes-deceiver’ Michelle Shafer ignores the facts and says, “This is not a real-world scenario. The equipment is not kept somewhere where people have unfettered access to it.” Shafer does not live in the real-world where counties allow “sleep-overs”\u009d or store the machines, in the open, without guard at the polls for days before and after an election. Shafer speaks from a different plane where down is up and up is down….<\/p>\n

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  • NAtional: Exclusive: Rep. Maxine Waters Announces Intention to Withdraw Co-Sponsorship of Holt Election Reform Bill! LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NAtional: NEW: Princeton prof says e-vote machines hackable LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NAtional: Follow that (paper) trail LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NAtional: Lower Voter Turnout Is Seen in States That Require ID LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NAtional: Paper Trail or Paper Ballot? LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • CA: CA counties and cities push for all-mail elections LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • FL: Sarasota County – Jennings files brief LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • GA: Opinion – Worthy backup for voter confidence LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • GA: Equal Time Opinion – Paper trail useless for votes LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • GA: Lawmakers eyeing earlier presidential primaries LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • HI: Online voting to be a first for Honolulu LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • HI: Online ballots offered in neighborhood boards election LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NY: Rockland – Opinion – Getting voting right LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • OH: Study: Poll workers, not machines, build voter confidence LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • OH: Brunner better not play political games LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • TX: Grimes County – Duff wants more of vote machines under scrutiny LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • VA: Senate Republicans fail in bid to require ID for provisional ballot voters 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 An article in today’s Oakland Tribune relates, “In a blow-by-blow on his school Web page and in a separate filing for an electronic voting lawsuit in New Jersey superior court, computer science professor Andrew Appel [Princeton University] details how he was able to purchase five of the Oakland-based […]<\/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-4172","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\/4172","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=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}