{"id":4991,"date":"2007-08-22T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T03:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2007-08-22T20:00:56","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T03:00:56","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-august-22-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4991","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For August 22, 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>So now ES&#038;S is in trouble, again, in California. They appear to have sold uncertified AutoMark voting systems to counties and those systems were used in recent elections. I think it is important to know that this is an ES&#038;S issue and not an AutoMark issue. AutoMark is a separate company that happened, at the time, to have an exclusive sales agreement with ES&#038;S. Hopefully AutoMark will distance themselves from ES&#038;S&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<li>NAtional: The Dan Rather Voting Machine Special, A Recipe for Election Disaster, and Serious Food for Thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/opedne_joan_bru_070822_the_dan_rather_votin.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Columnist &#8211; Registrars exposed; wish they still had McPherson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepresstribune.com\/articles\/2007\/08\/22\/opinion\/editorials\/01elias.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: State says e-voting machines weren&#8217;t certified<br \/>\nElection Systems &#038; Software sold almost 1,000 uncertified voting machines to five California counties in 2006, says Secretary of State Debra Bowen  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/07\/08\/21\/State-says-evoting-machines-were-not-certified_1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Voting machine company has its collar felt<br \/>\nAllegedly sold uncertified machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/?article=41860\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Glenn County forced to resort to paper ballots for next three elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicoer.com\/news\/ci_6684324\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Humboldt County &#8211; Committee Discusses Improving Voting Machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekareporter.com\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=27480\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Marin machines in e-voting furor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinij.com\/marin\/ci_6684490\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Bernardino County &#8211; County switching to paper ballots<br \/>\nRegistrar of voters will have to purchase new voting booths <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vvdailypress.com\/news\/machines_2441___article.html\/paper_ballots.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Bernardino County returns to paper ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/inland\/stories\/PE_News_Local_D_ballots22.3888e2b.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Bernardino County &#8211; County returning to paper ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybulletin.com\/news\/ci_6684792\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Francisco &#8211; S.F. may have been swindled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/a-893753~State__S_F__may_have_been_swindled.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Francisco Elections May Have Used Uncertified Machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betanews.com\/article\/San_Francisco_Elections_May_Have_Used_Uncertified_Machines\/1187813174\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Solano County &#8211; State to scrutinize Solano voting machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesheraldonline.com\/todaysnews\/ci_6680858\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Solano County &#8211; Solano e-voting hits snag<br \/>\nCounty machines may not have been certified by state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesheraldonline.com\/ci_6687919\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: Voter ID goes back to court<br \/>\nSecretary of State expands effort to inform voters about controversial voter identification cards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyreportonline.com\/Editorial\/News\/new_singleEdit.asp?individual_SQL=8%2F22%2F2007%4016120_Public_.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: The &#8216;nay&#8217; vote stands <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mywebpal.com\/partners\/680\/public\/news831530.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: Voting machine company appeals violation fines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courierpress.com\/news\/2007\/aug\/22\/voting-machine-company-appeals-violation-fines\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NM: Report looks at New Mexico&#8217;s switch to paper ballots  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/latest\/ci_6687474\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Polls being checked for handicap access <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/midday\/local_story_234104109.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Northampton County &#8211; Voting machines&#8217; validity in question<br \/>\nCompany used by Northampton County faces decertification. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/expresstimes\/pa\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-12\/118775560998690.xml&#038;coll=2\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Chautauqua County &#8211; Voting On The Future<br \/>\nElectoral Process Will Soon Go Forward With E-Machines <a href=\"http:\/\/post-journal.com\/articles.asp?articleID=18816\" target=\"_blank\"><i>LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Northampton County &#8211; Back to analog voting in Northampton County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/local\/all-stoffa0822-cn,0,911735.story\" 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 So now ES&#038;S is in trouble, again, in California. They appear to have sold uncertified AutoMark voting systems to counties and those systems were used in recent elections. I think it is important to know that this is an ES&#038;S issue and not an AutoMark issue. AutoMark is [&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-4991","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\/4991","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=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}