{"id":4338,"date":"2007-03-29T16:30:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T23:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2007-03-29T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T00:20:09","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-march-29-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4338","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For March 29, 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>Just why is the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation (SCI) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclairtimes.com\/page.php?page=14476\">asking counties for all paperwork<\/a> that applies to their dealing with Sequoia Voting Systems? They want &#8220;all bids, contracts, licenses, canceled checks and warranties relating to the purchase of voting machines from Sequoia.&#8221;\u009d Of course no one at SCI is saying anything while the investigation is under way.<\/p>\n<p>And in more vendor news St Joseph Co, Indiana is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbendtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070329\/News01\/703290316\/-1\/NEWS01\">paying an ES&#038;S bill under protest<\/a> and they may follow their check with a notice of a lawsuit. It seems the company may have made software updates contrary to county instructions and then when ES&#038;S corrected the mistake they decided to charge for that correction.<\/p>\n<p>Those stories, and many more, all linked below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: The Myth Of Voter Fraud <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/28\/AR2007032801969.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Brennan Center Op\/Ed in WaPo: &#8216;The Myth of Voter Fraud&#8217; and the U.S. Attorney Purge Scandal <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4337\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: H.R.811: Fact &#038; Friction &#8220;\u201c Part III <a href=\"http:\/\/e-voter.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/hr811-fact-friction-part-iii.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: The New Face of Jim Crow: Voter Suppression in America <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfaw.org\/pfaw\/general\/default.aspx?oid=22222\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: New: Voting Machine Companies to Congress &#8211; ALL YOUR VOTES BELONG TO US <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/opedne_joyce_mc_070329_new_3a_voting_machine_.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: McNerney Election Protection Report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yubanet.com\/artman\/publish\/article_53818.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: CA&#8217;s new e-voting rules could mean return of paper ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/government.zdnet.com\/?p=3030\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Fla. lawmakers renew call to replace touch-screen voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070329\/APN\/703292908\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Senate: Replace touch-screen vote machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/458\/story\/56935.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Advocates target voting reform<br \/>\nBudget plans ignore Crist call to discard most touch screens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradenton.com\/mld\/bradenton\/news\/local\/16989720.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IA: Election Day registration bill goes to Culver  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siouxcityjournal.com\/articles\/2007\/03\/28\/news\/legislature\/3205470de02d5c45862572ac000f0a90.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: St. Joseph County &#8211; County to pay bill under protest<br \/>\nSt. Joseph commissioners don&#8217;t want to risk May 8 primary election. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbendtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070329\/News01\/703290316\/-1\/NEWS01\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>KY: Bullitt County &#8211; Why Local Elections Matter and Why Curious Have to Watch Their Backs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/genera_bev_harr_070328_why_local_elections_.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MA: Everyone&#8217;s right to vote  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesunchronicle.com\/articles\/2007\/03\/29\/news\/news4.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Paper election ballot measure killed by Senate <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mywebpal.com\/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=573&#038;NewsID=794432&#038;CategoryID=742&#038;show=localnews&#038;om=1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Md. Senate Advances Bill To Dodge Electoral College <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/28\/AR2007032802150.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Legislature: House tentatively backs voter registration change <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-record.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070328\/NEWSREC0101\/70328042\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NC: Elections boards to consider instant runoff voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymounttelegram.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2007\/03\/29\/instant_runoff.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: SCI requests all Sequoia documents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclairtimes.com\/page.php?page=14476\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Oswego County &#8220;\u201c New Voting Machines Fade Into Distant Future <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pall-times.com\/articles\/2007\/03\/29\/news\/news2.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Suffolk County &#8211; Levy overridden on AC for voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/longisland\/politics\/ny-lidate295149932mar29,0,3612680.story?coll=ny-lipolitics-headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>RI: Straight-party voting targeted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=18140674&#038;BRD=1713&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=24491&#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 Just why is the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation (SCI) asking counties for all paperwork that applies to their dealing with Sequoia Voting Systems? They want &#8220;all bids, contracts, licenses, canceled checks and warranties relating to the purchase of voting machines from Sequoia.&#8221;\u009d Of course no one [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4338","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\/4338","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=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}