{"id":4236,"date":"2007-03-07T16:18:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T00:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2007-09-08T14:54:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T21:54:28","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-march-7-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4236","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For March 7, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

<\/a>The Vindicator (Youngstown, Ohio) reports that ES&S is showing Lawrence Co., Pennsylvania, just why signing a contract with the company is like signing a contract with the devil. Some of the ES&S iVotronic machines used in Lawrence Co. in the 2006 election were found to have been improperly programmed, according to the article. ES&S had agreed to reprogram and recertify all of the county’s machines at no cost to the county (probably under pressure from county officials). However, the recent cold snap in that area caused some frozen pipes which resulted in a leak in the storage area. Upon inspection the county found about 20 of their 275 machines had evidence of water spots on their cases. The county asked ES&S to inspect those 20 machines. Instead ES&S is insisting on inspecting and recalibrating all 275 machines and they want $298,028 to do the job. So, no more free reprogramming and the county pays over $1,000 per machine for an inspection that is probably not needed. …<\/p>\n

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  • NAtional: Avoid Another HAVA Train Wreck: Software Disclosure Requirements LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NAtional: Holt bill would demand paper record of votes LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NAtional: PFAW and PFAW Foundation Laud Introduction of ‘Count Every Vote Act’ By Clinton in Senate and Tubbs Jones in House LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NAtional: Senator Clinton, Representative Tubbs Jones Announce Reintroduction of Major Election Reform Bill LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NAtional: The Madness of Free and Fair Elections LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NAtional: Protecting the Right to Vote: Election Deception and Irregularities in Recent Federal Elections LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • FL: Voting Bill Politics LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • IN: US Voting Machine Company out of Business LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • IN: Voting Technologies International Out of Business? LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • IN: Randolph County – Randolph voting machine woes continue
    \nAfter two elections in which electronic voting equipment malfunctioned, the apparent closing of the company that sold the machines leaves officials worried about tech support.     LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • KS: Shawnee County – Ballot mistakes made in primary LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • MI: Gratiot County – Fulton requests vote recount LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • OH: Cuyahoga County – Expect 2008 scrutiny, ex-elections chief says
    \nCuyahoga County faces likely crush of lawyers, observers worse than ’04     LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • PA: New voting machines could be trashed
    \nAltered U.S. law would require radical changes     LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • PA: Activists plan to dissect voting machines LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • PA: Lawrence County – Burst water pipes endanger electronic voting machines LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • UT: Satellite voter sign-ups casualty at the Capitol
    \nRural clerks pushed bill through; Horiuchi calls the measure ‘heinous’ and ‘horrible’     LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • VT: A vote in the hand is worth \u2026 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 The Vindicator (Youngstown, Ohio) reports that ES&S is showing Lawrence Co., Pennsylvania, just why signing a contract with the company is like signing a contract with the devil. Some of the ES&S iVotronic machines used in Lawrence Co. in the 2006 election were found to have been improperly […]<\/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-4236","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\/4236","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=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}