{"id":4842,"date":"2007-07-19T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T03:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4842"},"modified":"2007-07-20T06:30:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T13:30:36","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-july-19-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4842","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For July 19, 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>Yesterday the key word was &#8220;decision.&#8221;\u009d Today I will continue with that word. Has a &#8220;decision&#8221; been made with respect to HR-811? Only time will tell. Information is the grist that is fed into the mill to become a &#8220;decision.&#8221; New York now has more information on the vendors so they can make a &#8220;decision&#8221; on their voting system selection. Another Pennsylvania county has to decide how they are going to pay for a maintenance contract for the ES&#038;S voting machines. Maybe it&#8217;s time the counties decide it&#8217;s time to kick ES&#038;S out of the state. Oklahoma did it years ago and, you know, there is very little news about voting machine failures in Oklahoma reported in DVN&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Holt Paper-Trail Election Bill Dead? <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2007\/07\/holt-paper-trai.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Voting System Companies Fail to Meet New York State&#8217;s Requirements for &#8220;Responsible Contractors&#8221;\u009d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votersunite.org\/info\/IrresponsibleVendors.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: The Electric Kool-Aid Voting Test <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4823\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Crippling Cost of HR 811 Leaves States Exposed and Defenseless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/opedne_nancy_to_070718_crippling_cost_of_hr.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Bush Government To Poor Voters: We Don&#8217;t Want You To Vote <a href=\"http:\/\/freeinternetpress.com\/story.php?sid=12749\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: UMBC grad student&#8217;s team wins voting-machine design contest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/baltimore_county\/bal-md.co.voting19jul19,0,2178033.story\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: U.S. Senate Bill S. 1487: Escalating the Federal Control and Privatization of Elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/opedne_ellen_th_070719_u_s__senate_bill_s__.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AL: Governor&#8217;s race remembered for &#8216;funny numbers&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baldwincountynow.com\/articles\/2007\/07\/19\/local_news\/doc469fbcd8c0153182814287.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AL: Covington County &#8211; County voting system gets software, hardware upgrade <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andalusiastarnews.com\/articles\/2007\/07\/19\/news\/news02.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AR: Clay County &#8211; Court gives okay for election coordinator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claycountydemocrat.com\/articles\/2007\/07\/19\/news\/news1.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: FL-13 &#8211; Jennings to challenge Buchanan again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabays10.com\/news\/local\/article.aspx?storyid=57146\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: FL-13 &#8211; Jennings vies another run at Buchanan  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-herald.com\/floridanews.cfm?id=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: FL-13 &#8211; Florida Democrat Seeks Rematch of Contested 2006 Race <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/cq\/2007\/07\/19\/cq_3126.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>HI: Editorial &#8211; State cutting it close with new voting system <a href=\"http:\/\/starbulletin.com\/2007\/07\/19\/editorial\/editorial01.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MI: Michigan Supreme Court Upholds Photo ID Law <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdetroit.com\/myfox\/pages\/News\/Detail?contentId=3808586&#038;version=4&#038;locale=EN-US&#038;layoutCode=TSTY&#038;pageId=3.2.1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MS: In Mississippi, Ruling Is Seen as Racial Split <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/18\/us\/18south.html?_r=2&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MS: Jackson County Tests Hundreds Of Voting Machines For Accuracy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlox.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=6809403&#038;nav=6DJI\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Mercer Co. asks for help with voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindy.com\/content\/local_regional\/306720742984876.php\" 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 Yesterday the key word was &#8220;decision.&#8221;\u009d Today I will continue with that word. Has a &#8220;decision&#8221; been made with respect to HR-811? Only time will tell. 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