{"id":5304,"date":"2007-11-14T20:00:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T04:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5304"},"modified":"2007-11-15T10:36:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T18:36:39","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-november-14-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5304","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For November 14, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

<\/a>An editorial in today’s Daytona Beach News-Journal begins: “For votes to count, they must be counted, and accurately. Americans expect tallies to be quick, as well. <\/p>\n

“It doesn’t always work that way. Ongoing problems with electronic vote-counting machines have eroded voter confidence and raised anxiety about the potential for tampering. In an era when voter-participation levels are already low, it’s a problem local, state and federal leaders should confront. <\/p>\n

“That effort should start with coordinated, national information-sharing. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission, created in 2004, was charged with creating a central clearinghouse detailing glitches, hardware problems and tampering attempts. That database has yet to be created. So when supervisors in Illinois or California — or Volusia or Flagler counties — want to know about potential problems with a system, their only recourse is to turn to the Internet. Grass-roots voting-accuracy advocates, to their credit, are operating informational Web sites, but elections officials should have an objective source to turn to — especially since advocacy groups might not always have access to insider information about how an error occurred.”\u009d…<\/p>\n

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