{"id":5613,"date":"2008-01-26T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2008-01-28T09:07:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T17:07:18","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-january-26-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5613","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For January 26, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

<\/a>In response to the Colorado Governor and legislative leaders’ push for every county to use paper ballots at the polls in November, and to be counted by optical-scan, county election officials are warning of long lines and late results. We’ve heard this from election officials in California and Ohio, also. My opinion? So what. I want my vote counted and I want as much assurance that it has been correctly counted as possible. I don’t need immediate gratification, i.e., a winner or loser within 30 minutes of the polls closing. The media crawl all over themselves to be the first to call the election for one candidate or another. Well, if they have to wait a few more hours then so be it. I want my damn vote counted the way I cast it. Tomorrow is fine. And about the long-lines; have they heard of cardboard boxes? Voters don’t necessarily need to use a specially built voting booth. If they have a choice between using a cardboard box as a booth or standing in a long line in the rain or snow, which do you think they will chose? <\/p>\n

Our sincere congratulations to the elections staff and poll workers of Horry County, South Carolina, for what is being reported as a trouble-free election today.<\/p>\n

As usual, links to those stories, and the rest of today’s voting news, all follow below…<\/em><\/p>\n

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