{"id":4968,"date":"2007-08-17T18:05:43","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T01:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2007-08-18T01:51:51","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T08:51:51","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-august-17-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4968","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For August 17, 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>In yesterday&#8217;s DVN I mentioned that Smartmatic had been looking for a buyer for Sequoia for &#8220;over a year.&#8221;\u009d In fact Smartmatic announced it was looking for a buyer for Sequoia on 22 Dec. 2006 so it has been 8 months. Both Sequoia and ES&#038;S have released statements in an attempt to make lemonade from the lemons served up by Dan Rather&#8217;s Report. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems, in Full Damage Control Mode, Contacts Us About Error, Reveals Several of Their Own in the Bargain <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4966\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: ES&#038;S &#8211; Statement Regarding HDNet Program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essvote.com\/HTML\/news_room\/nr_08142007.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems Publishes Quality Control Documentation For 2000 Palm Beach Punch Card Ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequoiavote.com\/article.php?id=91\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: &#8216;Diebold Election Systems, Inc.&#8217; Is No More! (At Least in Name) <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4962\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Why nobody wants to buy Diebold Election Systems <a href=\"http:\/\/avi-rubin.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/why-nobody-wants-to-buy-diebold.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Rather looks at 2000 voting snafus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/entertainment_old\/ci_6633623\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Opinion &#8211; Secretary of state votes for voters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleychronicle.com\/articles\/2007\/08\/17\/opinion\/06elias.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Voting machine hackers &#8211; UCSB team breaks into counting device  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacbiztimes.com\/index.cfm?go2=articles\/wk_081607e\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Bernardino Co. considers return to paper ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/inland\/stories\/PE_News_Local_D_paperweb.2062c19.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Montrose County &#8211; Montrose nixes voting machines, may go to all-paper ballot process <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gjsentinel.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2007\/08\/17\/8_17_3a_Paper_ballots.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MO: Elections and Self-Promotion: The American Way <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.riverfronttimes.com\/stlog\/2007\/08\/elections_and_selfpromotion_th.php\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MS: Hancock County &#8211; Requested ballot review in Senate primary begins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/201\/story\/122239.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Election board approves broader use of paper ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressconnects.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070816\/NEWS01\/708160384\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: State keeps paper ballots open to all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejournalnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070817\/NEWS01\/708170376\/1018\/NEWS02\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Northampton County &#8211; Lever voting machines may make a return <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/local\/all-b3_3vote.5999431aug17,0,3195097.story\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Philippines: Firm that gave US flawed counting machines wants to automate RP polls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanews.tv\/story\/56505\/Firm-that-gave-US-flawed-counting-machines-wants-to-automate-RP-polls\" 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 In yesterday&#8217;s DVN I mentioned that Smartmatic had been looking for a buyer for Sequoia for &#8220;over a year.&#8221;\u009d In fact Smartmatic announced it was looking for a buyer for Sequoia on 22 Dec. 2006 so it has been 8 months. Both Sequoia and ES&#038;S have released statements [&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-4968","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\/4968","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=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}