{"id":4563,"date":"2007-05-16T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T03:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4563"},"modified":"2007-05-16T18:36:17","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T01:36:17","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-may-16-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4563","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For May 16, 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><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">The Florida Voters Coalition (FVC) and the Florida Council of the Blind (FCB) today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2449&#038;Itemid=113\">announced<\/a> a strategic alliance calling on Florida state and county officials to provide paper ballots for all voters in all elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an historic day,&#8221;\u009d said FVC Co-Founder, Dan McCrea, &#8220;when those demanding the security of paper ballots and those demanding HAVA compliant accessibility for voters with disabilities speak with one unified voice. Listen up, state and county officials. No voter should be left behind, especially in the name of equality. That is simply absurd. It&#8217;s time to scrap your DREs and replace them with non-tabulating ballot marking devices, providing all voters paper ballots &#8220;\u201c no exceptions.&#8221;\u009d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That story, and many more notable voting related articles today, all linked below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Editorial &#8211; The Unkept Promise on Voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/16\/opinion\/16wed1.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: The Voter Fraud Fraud <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2166287\/entry\/0\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Voting on Voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmcafe.com\/blog\/specialguests\/2007\/may\/16\/voting_on_voting\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Francisco &#8211; SF Ballots May Have to be Hand Counted Come November <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcbs.com\/pages\/465653.php?contentType=4&#038;contentId=507690\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Florida Voters Coalition and Florida Council of the Blind Announce Strategic Alliance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2449&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Sarasota panel chooses scanners, paper ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradenton.com\/186\/story\/49403.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Citizen panel&#8217;s advice snubs touch-screen maker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070516\/NEWS\/705160406\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Worm attacked voter database in notorious Florida district <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;taxonomyId=13&#038;articleId=9019560&#038;intsrc=hm_topic\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Sarasota&#8217;s FL-13 Election &#8216;Slammed&#8217; by Viral Worm Attack on First Day of Early Voting <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4480\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8220;\u201c Opinion &#8211; Safe advice on voting<br \/>\nProposal to rent optical-scan machines makes sense <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070516\/OPINION\/705160773\/1030\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: Editorial &#8211; Make voting easier<br \/>\nIf the Richmond experiment succeeds, state should allow all counties to adopt it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortwayne.com\/mld\/newssentinel\/17234454.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>KY: Scott County &#8211; Board: Tallies won&#8217;t be late after primary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetownnews.com\/articles\/2007\/05\/16\/news\/news01.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Troy &#8211; Machines simple to use, voters say<br \/>\nSchool board switched to electronic devices after malfunction last year <a href=\"http:\/\/timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=589822&#038;category=RENSSELAER&#038;BCCode=HOME&#038;newsdate=5\/16\/2007\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Allegheny County &#8211; A quiet day at the polls<br \/>\nA few problems are reported with voting machines, campaign workers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/07136\/786276-181.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Centre County &#8211; Few problems reported with touch-screens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/350\/story\/97551.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Luzerne County &#8211; Wrong candidates on ballot in Lake-Lehman school race <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizensvoice.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=18346886&#038;BRD=2259&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=455154&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Mercer County &#8211; For credit, students help out at the polls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindy.com\/content\/local_regional\/325919900418442.php\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Monroe County &#8211; Write-in voting causes most election glitches <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poconorecord.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070516\/NEWS\/70516010\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Northampton County &#8211; Voters deserve verifiable electronic votes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/opinion\/anotherview\/all-right_col-a.5849915may16,0,2719339.story?coll=all-newsopinionanotherview-hed\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Schuylkill County &#8211; Voter turnout low; tallying goes quickly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.republicanherald.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=18346683&#038;BRD=2626&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=532624&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Westmoreland County &#8211; Westmoreland election machines function with barely a hitch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/tribunereview\/news\/westmoreland\/s_507931.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Chaos breaks out in Senate over Voter ID bill  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/ap\/tx\/4806873.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 Florida Voters Coalition (FVC) and the Florida Council of the Blind (FCB) today announced a strategic alliance calling on Florida state and county officials to provide paper ballots for all voters in all elections. &#8220;This is an historic day,&#8221;\u009d said FVC Co-Founder, Dan McCrea, &#8220;when those demanding [&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-4563","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\/4563","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=4563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4563"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}