{"id":5213,"date":"2007-10-26T19:15:22","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T02:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5213"},"modified":"2007-10-27T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T09:49:08","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-october-26-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5213","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For October 26, 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=\"left\"><\/a>The utter arrogance of ES&#038;S has been revealed again with the revelation of a letter from the Colorado SOS to the company. It seems that ES&#038;S is dragging its feet and obstructing the court-ordered recertification of their system used by two Colorado counties. One paragraph from that letter says it all about ES&#038;S and its lack of any partnership with its customers:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">In addition, it is my understanding that there is a history of coordination issues with your company. Those issues include the following: changing project managers multiple times since April, providing incorrect programming of required databases for testing, providing incorrect ballots for testing, failing to provide required documentation of Federal testing, and test failures requiring extensive machine servicing.<\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s quotation is from an Editorial in the Redding (CA) Record Searchlight: &#8220;In person or by post, though, it&#8217;s more and more obvious that the smartest way to run elections is with dumb technology. Your ink might run dry, but nobody has ever hacked a pen.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p><em>Those stories, and today&#8217;s other notable voting news items, all linked below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NAtional: Senate Battle Over FEC Nominee May Hamper Agency&#8217;s Ability to Act<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/25\/AR2007102502489.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/25\/AR2007102502489.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: A case of the wrong technology applied incorrectly<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/avi-rubin.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/case-of-wrong-technology-applied.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/avi-rubin.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/case-of-wrong-technology-applied.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Nevada County awaits voting machine verdict<br \/>\nPlacer County can afford to feel confident<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nevadaappeal.com\/article\/SS\/20071025\/NEWS\/71025023\/-1\/REGION\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.nevadaappeal.com\/article\/SS\/20071025\/NEWS\/71025023\/-1\/REGION<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Nevada County &#8211; Regional Op-Ed | Gregory Diaz: An Open Letter To Nevada County Voters<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yubanet.com\/artman\/publish\/article_68895.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.yubanet.com\/artman\/publish\/article_68895.shtml<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Francisco &#8211; Absentee ballots trickling in for S.F. election<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/10\/26\/BAQTT09UG.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/10\/26\/BAQTT09UG.DTL<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Shasta County &#8220;\u201c Editorial &#8211; &#8216;Smart&#8217; voting is a costly flop for California<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redding.com\/news\/2007\/oct\/26\/smart-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.redding.com\/news\/2007\/oct\/26\/smart-voting\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Shasta County &#8211; Taxpayers to pay $73K for changes<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redding.com\/news\/2007\/oct\/25\/taxpayers-to-pay-73k-for-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.redding.com\/news\/2007\/oct\/25\/taxpayers-to-pay-73k-for-changes\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Exclusive: ES&#038;S Certification Testing Suspended In Colorado<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5210\" target=\"_blank\"><i>https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5210<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>LA: Sabine Parish &#8211; Malfunctioning machine prompted uncertainty in Sabine election<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shreveporttimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071026\/BREAKINGNEWS\/71026024\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.shreveporttimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071026\/BREAKINGNEWS\/71026024<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MI: Officials work to ease fear at polls<br \/>\nCities train workers on ins, outs of new ID law<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071026\/NEWS06\/710260427\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.freep.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071026\/NEWS06\/710260427<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Pa. won&#8217;t release list of polling places<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macon.com\/nation\/story\/169959.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.macon.com\/nation\/story\/169959.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WA: Kitsap County &#8211; Votemobile Brings Polling Station to the People<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitsapsun.com\/news\/2007\/oct\/25\/votemobile-brings-polling-station-to-the-people\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.kitsapsun.com\/news\/2007\/oct\/25\/votemobile-brings-polling-station-to-the-people\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WA: Whatcom County &#8211; Bar-code error on some ballots not serious<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellinghamherald.com\/256\/story\/216842.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.bellinghamherald.com\/256\/story\/216842.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WV: Mineral County &#8211; Optical-scan ballots approved for Mineral bond levy election<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times-news.com\/local\/local_story_299092532.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.times-news.com\/local\/local_story_299092532.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Guam: E-Vote: Voting Machines Prohibited in Guam<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtech.com\/gt\/articles\/159440\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.govtech.com\/gt\/articles\/159440<\/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 The utter arrogance of ES&#038;S has been revealed again with the revelation of a letter from the Colorado SOS to the company. It seems that ES&#038;S is dragging its feet and obstructing the court-ordered recertification of their system used by two Colorado counties. One paragraph from that letter [&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-5213","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\/5213","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=5213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5213"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}