{"id":5175,"date":"2007-10-18T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2007-10-19T03:22:54","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T10:22:54","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-october-18-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5175","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For October 18, 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 week the Netherlands did away with e-voting and their DREs made by a company called &#8220;NEDAP.&#8221;\u009d These same machines were sold to Ireland under the brand name &#8220;Liberty.&#8221;\u009d &#8220;Liberty&#8221;\u009d is now being marketed in New York. Ireland paid 51.3m Euros to purchase their machines then they found out they were insecure and had many problems. The machines have been in storage since they were purchased. They have never been used. Instead of taking NEDAP to court for restitution, or scrapping the machines; the Irish have now decided to take out 25-year rental leases for storage facilities. The government has taken a lease for the 288 machines in storage in County Monaghan for over 27,000 Euros a year. <\/p>\n<p> If you want a copy of the book featured in the first link below you can get one signed by the author at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votersunite.org\/info\/ballotsOfStraw.asp\">VotersUnite.Org<\/a> as a premium on a donation&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NAtional: Gripping New Novel Exposes America&#8217;s Vulnerability to Election Sabotage<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emediawire.com\/releases\/2007\/10\/emw561631.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.emediawire.com\/releases\/2007\/10\/emw561631.htm<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Tech The Vote<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/news.aspx?id=65647\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/news.aspx?id=65647<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Opinion &#8211; Elections overkill<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thereporter.com\/opinion\/ci_7212967\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.thereporter.com\/opinion\/ci_7212967<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Riverside County &#8211; Knee Deep in the Hoopla<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/10\/17\/news\/columnists\/john_hunneman\/20_38_0710_16_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/10\/17\/news\/columnists\/john_hunneman\/20_38_0710_16_07.txt<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MS: The Politics of Voter ID<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonfreepress.com\/comments.php?id=15179_0_4_0_C\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.jacksonfreepress.com\/comments.php?id=15179_0_4_0_C<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Editorial &#8211; Don&#8217;t overspend on quick voting fixes<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/opinion\/ny-vpvote185418655oct18,0,3396381.story\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/opinion\/ny-vpvote185418655oct18,0,3396381.story<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Cuyahoga County &#8211; Tests of electronic voting key to Cuyahoga&#8217;s plans for 2008<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdtn.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=7228875\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.wdtn.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=7228875<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Cuyahoga County &#8211; Reliability of touch-screen voting remains big concern<br \/>\nThe director of elections in Cuyahoga County gets ready for the 2008 elections<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.bgnews.com\/media\/storage\/paper883\/news\/2007\/10\/18\/State\/Reliability.Of.TouchScreen.Voting.Remains.Big.Concern-3039719.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/media.www.bgnews.com\/media\/storage\/paper883\/news\/2007\/10\/18\/State\/Reliability.Of.TouchScreen.Voting.Remains.Big.Concern-3039719.shtml<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Editorial &#8211; Hold vendor liable for voting machine snafu<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklyalmanac.com\/default.asp?sourceid=&#038;smenu=76&#038;twindow=Default&#038;mad=No&#038;sdetail=8040&#038;wpage=1&#038;skeyword=&#038;sidate=&#038;ccat=&#038;ccatm=&#038;restate=&#038;restatus=&#038;reoption=&#038;retype=&#038;repmin=&#038;repmax=&#038;rebed=&#038;rebath=&#038;subname=&#038;pform=&#038;sc=1020&#038;hn=weeklyalmanac&#038;he=.com\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.weeklyalmanac.com\/default.asp?sourceid=&#038;smenu=76&#038;twindow=Default&#038;mad=No&#038;sdetail=8040&#038;wpage=1&#038;skeyword=&#038;sidate=&#038;ccat=&#038;ccatm=&#038;restate=&#038;restatus=&#038;reoption=&#038;retype=&#038;repmin=&#038;repmax=&#038;rebed=&#038;rebath=&#038;subname=&#038;pform=&#038;sc=1020&#038;hn=weeklyalmanac&#038;he=.com<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ireland: Costly storage of e-voting machines slammed as &#8216;lunacy&#8217;<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/national-news\/costly-storage-of-evoting-machines-slammed-as-lunacy-1198858.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/national-news\/costly-storage-of-evoting-machines-slammed-as-lunacy-1198858.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 week the Netherlands did away with e-voting and their DREs made by a company called &#8220;NEDAP.&#8221;\u009d These same machines were sold to Ireland under the brand name &#8220;Liberty.&#8221;\u009d &#8220;Liberty&#8221;\u009d is now being marketed in New York. Ireland paid 51.3m Euros to purchase their machines then they found [&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-5175","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\/5175","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=5175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}