{"id":5109,"date":"2007-09-27T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T03:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2007-09-28T14:29:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T21:29:50","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-september-27-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5109","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For September 27, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

<\/a>Pinellas Co Florida had an open house of all certified Optical Scan Systems for the public to test, view and evaluate. They are also creating a Citizen Selection Committee to decide which system they want to purchase. Meanwhile Broward Co has issued a no-bid, sole source contract to ES&S. No open house. No citizen involvement in the decision. One county official claims that there are no choices because there is only Diebold\/Premier, ES&S and Sequoia. However, they have overlooked the fact that a fourth player is in the process of getting their op-scans certified for use in the state; Dominion Voting Systems, a Canadian company with sales all over Canada. Of course part of the story may be the fact that one of the Broward Co Commissioners is married to a former lobbyist for ES&S. All of this makes Broward Co Florida officials today’s winner of the “Enemy of Democracy”\u009d award….<\/p>\n

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