{"id":5474,"date":"2007-12-22T15:35:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T23:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2007-12-22T21:05:32","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T05:05:32","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-december-22-2007-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5474","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For December 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>Colorado Secretary of State Coffman continues to step as far away from state law as he possibly can. Rather than protect the voters it seems that Coffman wants to do everything possible to cut corners and ignore the facts in order for counties to use the machines he just decertified. Now Coffman is allowing Mesa Co to do their own certification testing to see if they can figure out a way to make their ES&#038;S iVotronics work. &#8220;Even if Omaha, Neb.-based ES&#038;S couldn&#8217;t get the systems to work for the certification, county officials likely can, Coffman said.&#8221;\u009d He wants to allow the counties to do their own testing and then go to the legislature and have them approve what has been done by the counties. Does anyone smell another law suit?<\/p>\n<p><em>More info on that, and links to today&#8217;s other notable voting news, follows below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NAtional: Who gets to vote matters<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.athensmessenger.com\/main.asp?SectionID=2&#038;SubSectionID=274&#038;ArticleID=7376&#038;TM=63301.84\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.athensmessenger.com\/main.asp?SectionID=2&#038;SubSectionID=274&#038;ArticleID=7376&#038;TM=63301.84<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Rocky article on Coffman controversy omitted that GOP consultant also was Coffman campaign contributor<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/colorado.mediamatters.org\/items\/200712220001\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/colorado.mediamatters.org\/items\/200712220001<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: County clerks urge all-mail election<br \/>\nPlea caps week of controversy about machines<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2007\/dec\/22\/clerks-plead-all-mail-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2007\/dec\/22\/clerks-plead-all-mail-vote\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Editorial &#8211; Narrow line for Coffman<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/opinion\/ci_7781705\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/opinion\/ci_7781705<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Mesa County allowed to test vote machines<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gjsentinel.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2007\/12\/21\/122207_1a_Voting_machines.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.gjsentinel.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2007\/12\/21\/122207_1a_Voting_machines.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Volusia County &#8211; Clerks won&#8217;t take voting machines home<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/NewsJournalOnline\/News\/EastVolusia\/evlEAST08APOL122207.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/NewsJournalOnline\/News\/EastVolusia\/evlEAST08APOL122207.htm<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MS: Appeals court freezes judge&#8217;s voter ID mandate<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071222\/NEWS\/712220367\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071222\/NEWS\/712220367<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Cuyahoga County elections chief ready for difficult change<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wkyc.com\/news\/news_article.aspx?storyid=80235\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.wkyc.com\/news\/news_article.aspx?storyid=80235<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Cuyahoga County &#8211; State elections chief votes to abolish Cuyahoga County&#8217;s touch-screen system<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cleveland.com\/metro\/2007\/12\/state_elections_chief_votes_to.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/blog.cleveland.com\/metro\/2007\/12\/state_elections_chief_votes_to.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Cuyahoga County &#8211; Ohio County to Switch Voting Machines<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5h6y0nVXefzLWXOImRcDXQxW8LPxQD8TM66700\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5h6y0nVXefzLWXOImRcDXQxW8LPxQD8TM66700<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Van Wert County &#8211; County commissioners working on financial cuts<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesbulletin.com\/main.asp?SectionID=2&#038;SubSectionID=4&#038;ArticleID=145078&#038;TM=492.435\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.timesbulletin.com\/main.asp?SectionID=2&#038;SubSectionID=4&#038;ArticleID=145078&#038;TM=492.435<\/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 Colorado Secretary of State Coffman continues to step as far away from state law as he possibly can. Rather than protect the voters it seems that Coffman wants to do everything possible to cut corners and ignore the facts in order for counties to use the machines he [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5474","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\/5474","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=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}