{"id":4198,"date":"2007-02-26T17:06:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T01:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2007-02-26T17:28:53","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T01:28:53","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-february-25-and-26-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4198","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For February 25 and 26, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest Blogged by John Gideon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VotersUnite.org\">VotersUnite.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>While organizations like People For The American Way, Common Cause, and Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition argue that the continued use of DRE voting machines is necessary to support the foreign language speaking minority, they ignore that those machines may, in fact, serve to disenfranchise more voters from that community than they help. A <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4193\">new study from VotersUnite.Org<\/a> proves that the undervote rate in minority communities in New Mexico plummeted when those communities changed from DRE to optical scan voting systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4196\">According to BradBlog<\/a>; &#8220;California&#8217;s new Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, has flatly rejected a request from Riverside County, CA County Supervisor Jeff Stone to participate in a &#8220;hack test&#8221; challenge originally proposed to Election Integrity Advocates in response to their concerns about security and accuracy for the county&#8217;s electronic touch-screen voting machines.&#8221;\u009d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: 2004 and 2006 New Mexico Canvass Data Shows Undervote Rates Plummet in Minority Precincts When Paper Ballots are Used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votersunite.org\/info\/NM_UVbyBallotTypeandEthnicity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: REPORT: Undervote Rate Plummets 85% in New Mexico&#8217;s Native American Precincts after Statewide Switch from Touch-Screen Voting to Paper Ballots <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4193\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: EAC Research Finds Polling-Place ID Laws Reduce Minority Voter Turnout <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2286&#038;Itemid=26\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Feinstein Calls for Probe Into E-voting Machines<br \/>\nSenator asks GAO to look at potential for DRE malfunctions, election fraud <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;taxonomyId=13&#038;articleId=284031&#038;intsrc=hm_topic\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Fixes for accurate vote counts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0227\/p08s02-comv.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: EXCLUSIVE: California SoS Finds No State Law to Prohibit Proposed Riverside County &#8216;Hack Test&#8217; of Sequoia Touch-Screen Machines! <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4196\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: On Election Day, you&#8217;ve got mail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vvdailypress.com\/news\/20070226\/on-election-day-youve-got-mail\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Opinion &#8211; Accurate and Fraud-Free Elections Now: Florida&#8217;s Solution <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/opedne_william__070225_accurate_and_fraud_f.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Computer Scientists Defend Voting Machines <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/wiredcampus\/index.php?id=1896\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Florida e-vote audit criticized by Jennings, activists<br \/>\nState report says machines didn&#8217;t cause undervote of 18,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;taxonomyName=government&#038;articleId=9011800&#038;taxonomyId=13&#038;intsrc=kc_top\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MA: Royalston to try out new vote machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070225\/NEWS\/702250478\/1008\/NEWS02\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Opinion &#8211; Don&#8217;t replace voting system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/oped\/bal-op.opscan26feb26,0,990182.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MO: Commentary &#8211; Make it easier, not harder, to cast ballot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/mld\/kansascity\/news\/opinion\/16783776.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: How to Fix Our Broken Voting System  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njbiz.com\/weekly_article_reg.asp?aID=178469804.419409.910091.4172302.8519281.700&#038;aID2=69998\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Texas Bill Would Require Voting Machine Paper Trail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.public-cio.com\/newsStory.php?id=2007.02.26-104039\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Matagorda County &#8211; Statewide election costly for county <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baycitytribune.com\/story.lasso?ewcd=326cd2bac5ea0e9f\" 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 While organizations like People For The American Way, Common Cause, and Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition argue that the continued use of DRE voting machines is necessary to support the foreign language speaking minority, they ignore that those machines may, in fact, serve to disenfranchise more voters from that [&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-4198","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\/4198","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=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}