{"id":4239,"date":"2007-03-08T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2007-03-09T04:55:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T12:55:59","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-march-8-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4239","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For March 8, 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>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4237\">just released GAO report<\/a> &#8220;ELECTIONS: All Levels of Government Are Needed to Address Electronic Voting System Challenges&#8221;: &#8220;Election officials, computer security experts, citizen advocacy groups, and others have raised significant concerns about the security and reliability of electronic voting systems, citing vague or incomplete standards, weak security controls, system design flaws, incorrect system configuration, poor security management, and inadequate security testing, among other issues. These security and reliability concerns are legitimate and thus merit the combined and focused attention of federal, state, and local authorities responsible for election administration.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: New GAO Report: Yet Another Confirmation That &#8216;Security and Reliability Concerns&#8217; of Election Integrity Experts are &#8216;Legitimate&#8217; (To Say the Least) <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4237\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Opinion: More proof of e-voting trouble (cue crickets)<br \/>\nGAO report a reminder that EAC has failed entirely, says Brad Friedman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9012502&#038;pageNumber=1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Hunter &#038; Rodriguez Appointed as New EAC Commissioners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eac.gov\/news_030807.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Press Release: Announcement of Departure of Verified Voting President &#038; CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org\/article.php?id=6436\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Press Release: Verified Voting Board Appoints New President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org\/article.php?id=6437\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Counties gird for election wave<br \/>\nThe prospect of adding an early presidential primary has officials worrying about workloads, money. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/101\/story\/134452.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Los Angeles County &#8211; Councilwoman among those not on voting rolls<br \/>\nHahn asks for an investigation. Error in data entry puts Wilmington residents in Long Beach. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/news\/articles\/6372182.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Orange County &#8211; Judge forbids second 1st District &#8216;recount&#8217;<br \/>\nTrung Nguyen&#8217;s camp has already seen ballots it wants reviewed, a court says. His lawyer thinks people voted more than once. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/ocregister\/homepage\/abox\/article_1608536.php\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Colorado Clerks Want To Keep Ballots Sealed <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs4denver.com\/local\/local_story_067091630.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CT: Out with the old &#8220;\u201d Lever voting booths scrap heap bound <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiltonvillager.com\/wilton_templates\/wilton_story\/288374444630778.php\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Florida Gov. Crist Makes History<br \/>\nWill end permanent disenfranchisement of Florida&#8217;s 600,000 ex-felons who&#8217;ve paid their debt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/HL0703\/S00134.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>LA: Opinion puts limit on faxed ballots<br \/>\nSecretary of state must defer to parish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/t-p\/capital\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-4\/1173338222274060.xml&#038;coll=1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Williamson County &#8211; Elections leader preparing to avoid more blunders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/local\/03\/08\/8elections.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VA: Voter groups ask Kaine to delay signing of bill<br \/>\nSay Va. should see how Congress addresses touch-screen machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesdispatch.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&#038;c=MGArticle&#038;cid=1149193584344&#038;path=!news&#038;s=1045855934842\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VA: A new way to vote?<br \/>\nGov. Kaine is hearing from both sides on a bill that would slowly replace new voting machines with devices that leave a paper trail. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypress.com\/news\/local\/dp-75030sy0mar08,0,2824739.story?coll=dp-news-local-final\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>VT: A vote in the hand is worth \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesargus.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070308\/NEWS02\/703080366\/1003\/NEWS02\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WV: Kanawha County &#8211; Precinct merger suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/wvgazette.com\/section\/Today\/2007030716\" 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 From the just released GAO report &#8220;ELECTIONS: All Levels of Government Are Needed to Address Electronic Voting System Challenges&#8221;: &#8220;Election officials, computer security experts, citizen advocacy groups, and others have raised significant concerns about the security and reliability of electronic voting systems, citing vague or incomplete standards, weak [&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-4239","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\/4239","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=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}