{"id":4697,"date":"2007-06-16T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T03:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2007-06-16T21:51:33","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T04:51:33","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-june-16-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For June 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=\"right\"><\/a>In his WebLog New Yorkers for Verified Voting&#8217;s Bo Lipari <a href=\"http:\/\/nyvv.org\/blog\/bolipariblog.html\">relates<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">The 800 pound gorilla of software development has moved forcefully into New York State, supported by voting machine vendors using Microsoft Windows in their touch screen voting machines and other systems. Over the last two months Microsoft and a cadre of high paid lobbyists have been working a full-court press in Albany in an attempt to bring about a serious weakening of New York State election law. This back door effort by private corporations to weaken public protections is about to bear fruit.<\/div>\n<p>These are the same lobbyists who left a closed door meeting with Senator Feinstein with a satisfied smile on their faces just before her corporate protecting election legislation, S-1487, was completed and filed.<\/p>\n<p><em>That, and other voting news stories from today all linked below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Statistics Can Help Ensure Accurate Elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amstat.org\/publications\/amsn\/index.cfm?fuseaction=pres062007\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Editorial &#8211; Get to the truth behind voter fraud charges <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/opinion\/editorials\/stories\/MYSA061707.02H.voterfraud1ed.24a081d.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AK: Doogan questions use of electronic voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktuu.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=6667259\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Broward County &#8220;\u201c Officials To Consider Voting-Machine Plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/467\/story\/141688.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Watchdog warns of risk to state election law <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejournalnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070616\/NEWS05\/706160348\/1021\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Sides spar over voting machine rule<br \/>\nPush to change the law pits need to prevent fraud against desire to protect proprietary software rights <a href=\"http:\/\/timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=598403&#038;category=FRONTPG&#038;BCCode=HOME&#038;newsdate=6\/16\/2007\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Microsoft Muscles the NYS Legislature<br \/>\nSoftware giant moves to weaken NY Election law <a href=\"http:\/\/nyvv.org\/blog\/bolipariblog.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Carroll County &#8211; Carroll officials decline suggestion to pay county workers to serve at polls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesreporter.com\/index.php?ID=69115\" 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 In his WebLog New Yorkers for Verified Voting&#8217;s Bo Lipari relates: The 800 pound gorilla of software development has moved forcefully into New York State, supported by voting machine vendors using Microsoft Windows in their touch screen voting machines and other systems. Over the last two months Microsoft [&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-4697","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\/4697","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=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}