{"id":4479,"date":"2007-04-28T17:32:48","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T00:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4479"},"modified":"2007-04-29T07:54:54","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T14:54:54","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-april-28-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4479","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For April 28, 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=\"left\"><\/a>The state of Texas has taken action to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/headline\/metro\/4756823.html\">close the elections office<\/a> in Waller County. The state will be providing monitors who will be closely watching the election process in the county. This as a result of numerous complaints from citizens of the county, including students of Prairie View A&#038;M University, who were disenfranchised last November. Meanwhile yesterday the Florida state Senate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/416\/story\/89301.html\">passed a bill<\/a> that may finally give the voters a paper ballot and end the use of DREs.<\/p>\n<p>Those, and the other notable voting news stories today, all linked below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>FL: Senate votes to end touch-screen voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/416\/story\/89301.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Senate Passes Elections Bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbo.com\/news\/metro\/MGB4SJYG11F.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Paper ballot system appears likely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/457\/story\/89509.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Senate votes to move primary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-press.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070428\/NEWS0120\/704280445\/1075\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Plan to spend $28 million on new voting machines clears the Senate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/local\/southflorida\/sfl-felections28apr28,0,6265441.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Osceola County &#8211; Federal judge won&#8217;t toss out election result <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/osceola\/orl-cfbriefs28_307apr28,0,1569678.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-osceola\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: Toms River &#8211; Two critics of voting machines to be heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.app.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070428\/NEWS02\/704280416\/1070\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Vendors Try an End Run Around NYS Election Law <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2420&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Stark County &#8211; A paper chase for board of elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indeonline.com\/index.php?ID=16055&#038;r=0&#038;Category=3\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Database glitch may hurt early vote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/275\/story\/84077.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Waller County &#8211; Claims of voting violations bring monitors to Waller County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/headline\/metro\/4756823.html\" 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 The state of Texas has taken action to close the elections office in Waller County. The state will be providing monitors who will be closely watching the election process in the county. This as a result of numerous complaints from citizens of the county, including students of Prairie [&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-4479","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\/4479","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=4479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4479"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}