{"id":4744,"date":"2007-06-27T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T03:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2007-06-27T20:00:30","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T03:00:30","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-june-27-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4744","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For June 27, 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>ES&#038;S seems to have complied with the demand from the California SoS&#8217;s office that they provide their source code as part of the state&#8217;s &#8220;Top-to-Bottom Review&#8221;\u009d of all voting systems used in the state. I say &#8220;seems to&#8221;\u009d because ES&#038;S delivered source code but would not let the state have the code that is sitting in escrow, per state law, for exactly the purpose of a review of their voting system. This is a growing story with a lot of unanswered questions. Also, is it not enough that we have given a few corporations too much involvement in our voting process (with more to come if S-1487 is signed into law)? Now Salt Lake Co. Utah is actually discussing allowing companies to advertise at the polls in exchange for providing a minimum of five uniform dressed &#8220;volunteers&#8221;\u009d as poll workers. I can see it now, a banner running across the DRE screen announcing, &#8220;Today&#8217;s election is brought to you by WalMart&#8221;\u009d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: House Passes Bill Prohibiting Deceptive Practices in Campaigns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2510&#038;Itemid=26\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: House Bill Would Punish Voter Deception <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20070625\/D8Q03TV80.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: You will vote the way we tell you to vote! Verstehen! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/opedne_charles__070626_you_will_vote_the_wa.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Press Release &#8211; New Diebold Election Systems Software to be Previewed at Upcoming IACREOT Conference <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthtimes.org\/articles\/show\/news_press_release,130276.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: ES&#038;S Relents In California, Finally Submits Voting System Source Code to SoS <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4737\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Hacker Tests Begin on Voting Machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/weblog\/capitalnotes\/2007\/06\/hacker-tests-begin-on-voting-machines.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Palm Beach County &#8211; County balks but takes state scan grant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/politics\/content\/local_news\/epaper\/2007\/06\/27\/w1b_opticalscan_0627.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Palm Beach County &#8211; End of touch-screen voting moves closer in Palm Beach County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/515\/story\/152529.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Palm Beach County to accept $4.9 million from Florida for optical-scan voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/local\/palmbeach\/sfl-flpoptical0627pnjun27,0,916697.story?coll=sfla-news-palm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: Marion County &#8211; Teens could help solve county&#8217;s election staffing problem<br \/>\nCitizens at meeting also suggest paying more, consolidating polling places <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070627\/LOCAL18\/706270450\/-1\/LOCAL17\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NM: Dona Ana County &#8211; County balks at ballot bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/news\/ci_6240763\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>UT: Salt Lake County to Congress on voting machines: Butt out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/ci_6234492\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>UT: Salt Lake County &#8211; Your Logo Here<br \/>\nSalt Lake County asks businesses to sponsor a few good poll workers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slweekly.com\/editorial\/2007\/cityweek_2_2007-06-28.cfm\" 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 ES&#038;S seems to have complied with the demand from the California SoS&#8217;s office that they provide their source code as part of the state&#8217;s &#8220;Top-to-Bottom Review&#8221;\u009d of all voting systems used in the state. I say &#8220;seems to&#8221;\u009d because ES&#038;S delivered source code but would not let the [&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-4744","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\/4744","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=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}