{"id":4804,"date":"2007-07-11T20:00:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T03:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2007-07-11T20:00:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T03:00:58","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-july-11-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4804","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For July 11, 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>The use of the county&#8217;s new DRE voting machines means that this year&#8217;s municipal elections will cost Salt Lake Co Utah three times more than past elections. New technology has increased the amount of training and wages for election workers. Palm Beach and Sarasota Co&#8217;s have both made a decision to fund for new voting machines&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Rush Holt, HR 811 and Avante International <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/genera_mark_cri_070711_expose__3b_rush_holt_2c_.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: People for the American Way (PFAW) Continues Dishonest Lobbying Campaign for Holt Election Bill <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4802\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: ES&#038;S Voting Machines Refusing to Comply with California SOS? <a href=\"http:\/\/scoop.epluribusmedia.org\/story\/2007\/7\/11\/121116\/924\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Palm Beach County &#8211; PBC approves funding for optical-scan voting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/politics\/content\/local_news\/epaper\/2007\/07\/11\/0711scan.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; New voting machines cost Sarasota $2.9M <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradenton.com\/local\/story\/95003.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Sarasota County &#8211; County approves $3 million for voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-herald.com\/Newsstory.cfm?pubdate=071107&#038;story=tp9ew10.htm&#038;folder=NewsArchive2\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Stark County &#8211; Election device to get test in Aug. 7 election <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cantonrep.com\/index.php?ID=364378&#038;Category=9&#038;subCategoryID=0\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Bucks County &#8211; Mercer Museum Acquires Older Bucks County Voting Machine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebulletin.us\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=18573622&#038;BRD=2737&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=576361&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Fort Bend County &#8211; Battle Lines Are Drawn Over Precinct Consolidation Plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortbendnow.com\/article\/3110\/battle-lines-form-over-proposed-voting-precinct-consolidation\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>UT: Salt Lake County &#8211; Election Costs Give SLC Council Sticker Shock <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcpw.org\/article\/3920\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WA: Initiative 25 Has the County&#8217;s Democrats Lining Up to Oppose . . . More Democracy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/2007-07-11\/news\/initiative-25-has-the-county-s-democrats-lining-up-to-oppose-more-democracy.php\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WV: Betty Ireland will not seek office in 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/wvgazette.com\/section\/Breaking\/000000687\" 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 use of the county&#8217;s new DRE voting machines means that this year&#8217;s municipal elections will cost Salt Lake Co Utah three times more than past elections. New technology has increased the amount of training and wages for election workers. Palm Beach and Sarasota Co&#8217;s have both made [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4804","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\/4804","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=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}