{"id":5577,"date":"2008-01-18T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2008-01-18T20:00:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T04:00:20","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-january-18-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5577","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For January 18, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

<\/a>Direct Recording Electronic voting is on the wane. New Mexico has already gone from DREs to paper. Florida is in the process of making the change and will be there by Nov. Ohio may make the move from DREs to paper ballots before Nov. Colorado clerks in all but three counties want to go to vote-by-mail for all elections and their SoS has now flip-flopped over to their side. Maryland has now budgeted $6.8M to make the move. Yet officials in Northampton Co, Pennsylvania have decided to buy DREs from Sequoia and they won’t even have a vvpat printer. Even the vendors are beginning to admit that while they have made hundreds of millions of dollars selling flawed technology their time is coming to an end. Soon the DRE purveyor will go the way of the snake-oil salesman. But officials like those in Northampton need to look beyond their county border and realize there is a world out there and they can learn from more than just a “slick-willie”\u009d salesman who is selling them junk.<\/p>\n

Tax payers in four California counties need to question their counties decision to file a wasteful lawsuit against the Secretary of State. How much San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Kern money was wasted in this attempt to not follow the rules? Kern stupidly announced they were joining the suit on Wed. and heard the tentative ruling against them on Thurs. That’s great planning….<\/p>\n

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