{"id":4509,"date":"2007-05-04T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2007-05-04T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T03:00:11","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-may-4-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4509","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For May 4, 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>Voters in Randolph Co Indiana are being asked to vote on a system made by now defunct Voting Technologies International; the same system that has failed in the last two elections and that failed in pre-election day set-up. Meanwhile an election this week in Scotland has been a disaster. High-speed ballot scanners failed, hundreds of thousands of ballots were spoiled, and postal ballot delays all added up to one huge mess. Also a new judge&#8217;s ruling in Alameda Co, more from Florida and a fun deposition taken from Linda Lamone in Maryland&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>AR: Carroll County &#8211; Baker&#8217;s lawsuit against Election Commission, prosecutor is dismissed  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekaspringstimesecho.com\/articles\/2007\/05\/04\/news\/we1.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Opinion &#8211; Registrars&#8217; whining shouldn&#8217;t stop tests <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleychronicle.com\/articles\/2007\/05\/04\/opinion\/06elias.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Alameda County &#8211; Judge questions registrar&#8217;s handling of election records <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/localnews\/ci_5819361\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Alameda County &#8211; California county to share data in e-voting suit<br \/>\nAlameda County will share the data from its e-voting machines as part of a lawsuit brought against the county charging failure to properly disclose the required data  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/07\/05\/04\/California-county-to-share-data-in-evoting-suit_1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Colo. elections IT mgr. selling &#8220;voter data&#8221; to GOP candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/scoop.epluribusmedia.org\/story\/2007\/5\/3\/213841\/7860\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Florida Acts to Eliminate Touch-Screen Voting System <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/04\/us\/politics\/04vote.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Election law changes await governor&#8217;s signature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/politics\/content\/state\/epaper\/2007\/05\/04\/a17a_xgr_elections_0504.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Touch-screen voting on way out, but millions still owed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/460\/story\/95856.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Touch-screens are out, paper is in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070504\/NEWS\/705040390\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Charlotte County &#8211; Horton, commission to explore mail voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-herald.com\/Newsstory.cfm?pubdate=050407&#038;story=tp7np10.htm&#038;folder=NewsArchive2\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Indian River County &#8211; Paper trail coming to Vero Beach voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/tcp\/local_news\/article\/0,2545,TCP_16736_5519247,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Palm Beach County &#8211; County elections chief moving on two ballot tracks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bocaratonnews.com\/index.php?src=news&#038;refno=19665&#038;category=Local%20News\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: FL-13 &#8211; Justice delayed<br \/>\nCourt&#8217;s slow process pushes District 13 case into political arena <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070504\/OPINION\/705040447\/1030\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: Randolph County &#8211; Randolph officials hope votes can be counted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestarpress.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070504\/NEWS01\/705040336\/1002\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MD: Lamone Deposition Made Public<br \/>\nConcedes Voting System Does Not Produce Ballots<br \/>\nLongstanding Maryland Law Requires the Use of Ballots for Recounts <a href=\"http:\/\/truevotemd.org\/content\/view\/600\/125\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MO: Ballot fraud furor fades<br \/>\nGOP-driven cases largely fall flat in Missouri; critics see a larger plan to sway election. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/111\/story\/165463.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: ELECTIONS: New voting machines delayed again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journal-register.com\/local\/gnnlocalnews_story_123175721.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: New York to Grill Voting Machine Testing Lab <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2007\/05\/new_york_to_gri.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Cuyahoga County &#8211; Changes at troubled elections board in Cuyahoga County to get first test <a href=\"http:\/\/zanesvilletimesrecorder.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070504\/NEWS01\/705040342\/1002\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Licking County &#8211; County still seeking poll workers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newarkadvocate.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070504\/UPDATES01\/70504013\/1002\/NEWS01\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Erie County &#8211; Election Problems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjettv.com\/content\/fulltext\/?cid=2198\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Senator returns, vows to block voter ID bill<br \/>\nFor now, Senate Democrats have votes needed to block measure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/region\/legislature\/stories\/05\/04\/4voterid.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WV: Jefferson County &#8211; Commission delays action <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journal-news.net\/News\/articles.asp?articleID=9000\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Scotland: Poll hit by ballot chaos <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/politics\/article2511823.ece\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Scotland: Elections marred by vote problems <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/scotland\/6622379.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Scotland: High number of spoiled papers puts spotlight on new system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theherald.co.uk\/politics\/news\/display.var.1375835.0.0.php\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Scotland: Ballot chaos mars Scottish elections <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/scotland\/story\/0,,2072345,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Scotland: Election voting chaos to be probed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uklatest\/story\/0,,-6607613,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Scotland: The Election: What went wrong? <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/politics.cfm?id=693382007\" 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 Voters in Randolph Co Indiana are being asked to vote on a system made by now defunct Voting Technologies International; the same system that has failed in the last two elections and that failed in pre-election day set-up. Meanwhile an election this week in Scotland has been a [&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-4509","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\/4509","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=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}