{"id":4863,"date":"2007-07-24T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T03:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2007-07-25T01:06:13","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T08:06:13","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-july-24-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4863","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For July 24, 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>Last year Luzerne County, PA, spent $2.4M on 750 ES&#038;S iVotronic DREs and a one-year warranty. Now that the first warranty is to expire ES&#038;S wants $300,000 for a three-year warranty. The county Director of Elections has written the state and told them, in part, &#8220;In addition to not being able to meet the financial burden that ES&#038;S is asking us to meet, we cannot individually deal with such a large, multi-national corporation and the mix of deception this company promulgates.&#8221;\u009d And he asked the state to ensure &#8220;that voting-system vendors doing business here do not have the opportunity to threaten the democratic process with such unsavory business practices that vendors, such as ES&#038;S, seemingly have a deep commitment to employing.&#8221;\u009d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Senator Clinton to Testify on Voting Machine Integrity Bill <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2007\/07\/senator-clinton.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Michael Collins: First One&#8217;s Free&#8230; Then You Pay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/HL0707\/S00336.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: The Fate Of Electronic Voting Is Being Debated In Washington: Your Testimony is Urgently Needed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/2007\/07\/24\/the-fate-of-electronic-voting-is-being-debated-in-washington-your-testimony-is-urgently-needed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Our Most Important Voice: My letter on S1487 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/2007\/07\/24\/our-most-important-voice\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Paper ballots the only way to be sure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/07\/24\/opinion\/commentary\/21_15_057_23_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Dinosaur &#8211; Dinosaur voting center may change <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigdailypress.com\/news\/2007\/jul\/24\/dinosaur_voting_center_may_change\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Martin County voters to get paper trail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/localnews\/content\/tcoast\/epaper\/2007\/07\/24\/0724MCPAPER.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: Marion County &#8211; Voting machine suit to proceed, judge says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070724\/LOCAL18\/707240388\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: Public hearings to be held on voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nj.com\/timesupdates\/2007\/07\/public_herarings_to_be_held_on.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Tuscarawas County &#8211; Meaning business at polls &#8211; Board of Elections hopes to recruit workers from area companies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesreporter.com\/index.php?ID=70602&#038;r=0\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Luzerne County &#8211; County calls for help <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizensvoice.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=18619928&#038;BRD=2259&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=455154&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Luzerne County &#8211; PA County Election Director Decries &#8216;Unsavory Business Practices, Deception&#8217; of ES&#038;S and Other Voting System Vendors <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4862\" 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 Last year Luzerne County, PA, spent $2.4M on 750 ES&#038;S iVotronic DREs and a one-year warranty. Now that the first warranty is to expire ES&#038;S wants $300,000 for a three-year warranty. The county Director of Elections has written the state and told them, in part, &#8220;In addition to [&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-4863","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\/4863","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=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}