{"id":4702,"date":"2007-06-18T20:35:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T03:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2007-06-18T18:18:08","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T01:18:08","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-june-17-and-18-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4702","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For June 17 and 18, 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>Ohio&#8217;s Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/mld\/beaconjournal\/news\/state\/17386538.htm\">announced<\/a> a plan to hire a firm to determine whether her state&#8217;s voting machines work, are secure, and can function under heavy volume. This is pretty much the same thing being done in California. Why don&#8217;t the two states join forces and save the taxpayer some money by sharing the costs?<\/p>\n<p>Also, in a decision that I&#8217;m sure pleased Sen. Diane Feinstein and other protectors of corporate secrets over voters, an appellate court in Florida <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/apnews\/stories\/061807\/D8PRGM2G0.shtml\">found<\/a> that Christine Jennings has no right to examine programming source code that ran the machines that undervoted in her race last Nov.<\/p>\n<p><em>Links to those stories, and today&#8217;s other notable voting news items, all below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Redistricting Reform: Tanner, Lofgren, Wamp Call for Judiciary Hearings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2495&#038;Itemid=26\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Separating Truth From Fiction in E-voting Reform <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/archives\/005308.php#005308\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Riverside County &#8220;\u201c Columnist &#8211; Boycott may be the only answer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/06\/17\/opinion\/jacobs\/16_02_256_16_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; Appellate court denies access to electronic voting code <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/apnews\/stories\/061807\/D8PRGM2G0.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MT: Opinion &#8211; Let&#8217;s give mail-in voting a try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenair.com\/articles\/2007\/06\/17\/opinions_top\/a04061707_01.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Elections chief seeks experts to test voting machine security <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/mld\/beaconjournal\/news\/state\/17386538.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Bucks County &#8211; Glitches worry voting advocates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillyburbs.com\/pb-dyn\/news\/111-06172007-1364461.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: York County &#8211; Congress could hand York County bill for paper ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkdispatch.com\/local\/ci_6169331\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TN: Sullivan County &#8211; Legislation may turn into local election officials&#8217; &#8216;worst nightmare&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesnews.net\/article.php?id=9001693\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Harris County &#8211; Why your vote isn&#8217;t secure<br \/>\nStudy, experts call for tests, paper trail, yet our local leaders ignore them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/editorial\/outlook\/4895213.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WV: Orange County &#8211; Orange to buy voting machines<br \/>\nOrange Electoral Board makes successful pitch for new voting machines in county <a href=\"http:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/News\/FLS\/2007\/062007\/06172007\/292618\" 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 Ohio&#8217;s Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, has announced a plan to hire a firm to determine whether her state&#8217;s voting machines work, are secure, and can function under heavy volume. This is pretty much the same thing being done in California. 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