{"id":5832,"date":"2008-03-21T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5832"},"modified":"2008-03-22T04:45:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T11:45:04","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-march-21-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5832","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For March 21, 2008"},"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>In order to help get themselves out of a very real PR problem Sequoia Voting Systems has followed their recent &#8220;Half Truth&#8221;\u009d press release with an announcement that they are sending their Advantage voting systems to &#8220;Kwaidan Consulting of Houston, Texas.&#8221;\u009d This is great! Wonderful! Oh wait a minute\u2026.Kwaidan Consulting? Just who is Kwaidan Consulting of Houston Texas? They have no website though their domain name is registered. They have no phone number in Houston or Sugar Land, Texas. What expertise does this seemingly fictional Kwaidan Consulting have to review Sequoia&#8217;s software? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems&#8217; Claims About Third Party Reviews and Testing of Its Election Equipment &#8220;\u201c Their Misleading Half-Truths vs. The Facts<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5830\" target=\"_blank\"><i>https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5830<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems site hacked<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-10789_3-9899944-57.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-10789_3-9899944-57.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Sequoia e-vote audit scrapped (and OMG robots!)<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/sequoia_e_vote_audit_scrapped_and_omg_robots\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/sequoia_e_vote_audit_scrapped_and_omg_robots<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems Admits To Hackers Attacking Their Website<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efluxmedia.com\/news_Sequoia_Voting_Systems_Admits_To_Hackers_Attacking_Their_Website_15405.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.efluxmedia.com\/news_Sequoia_Voting_Systems_Admits_To_Hackers_Attacking_Their_Website_15405.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems Website Hacked<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5831\" target=\"_blank\"><i>https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5831<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Sequoia Threatens Lawsuit Over E-Voting Machine Review<br \/>\nA New Jersey county asked a Princeton professor to conduct an independent review of Sequoia Voting Systems e-voting machines, which the company opposes.<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/software\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206905157\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/software\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206905157<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Voters prefer e-voting, but tech has limits<br \/>\nA recent survey found that voters generally prefer voting machines to paper ballots, but the machines have error rates that can be unacceptably high <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/08\/03\/21\/Voters-prefer-e-voting-but-tech-has-limits_1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/08\/03\/21\/Voters-prefer-e-voting-but-tech-has-limits_1.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Paper ballot bill up in smoke<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2008\/mar\/20\/paper-ballot-bill-up-in-smoke\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2008\/mar\/20\/paper-ballot-bill-up-in-smoke\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Plan to Use Paper Ballots Is Reversed in Colorado<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/21\/us\/politics\/21ballot.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/21\/us\/politics\/21ballot.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Voting bill dead<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradodaily.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/21\/news\/c_u_and_boulder\/news4.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.coloradodaily.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/21\/news\/c_u_and_boulder\/news4.txt<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Proposal for paper election killed<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gjsentinel.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2008\/03\/20\/032108_1b_voting_bill.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.gjsentinel.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2008\/03\/20\/032108_1b_voting_bill.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Clerks&#8217; power killed bill<br \/>\nUnified front spelled doom for measure mandating paper ballots<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_8644835\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_8644835<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Palm Beach County voters say goodbye to touch screens<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bocaratonnews.com\/news\/local\/243-palm-beach-county-voters-say-goodbye-touch-screens.php\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.bocaratonnews.com\/news\/local\/243-palm-beach-county-voters-say-goodbye-touch-screens.php<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IA: House approves funds to upgrade voting machines <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siouxcityjournal.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/21\/news\/iowa\/60fc4f6c18de673386257413000ef6bd.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.siouxcityjournal.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/21\/news\/iowa\/60fc4f6c18de673386257413000ef6bd.txt<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IA: Iowa Citizen Groups Applaud Paper Ballot Legislation<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2793&#038;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2793&#038;Itemid=113<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IA: Iowa House approves voting machine plan<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/21\/ap-state-ia\/d8vhuai01.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.qctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/21\/ap-state-ia\/d8vhuai01.txt<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: Editorial &#8211; Bring in the ref<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/opinion\/times\/editorials\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-0\/120607262373310.xml&#038;coll=5\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.nj.com\/opinion\/times\/editorials\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-0\/120607262373310.xml&#038;coll=5<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: eVoting systems come under fire<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/security\/?p=972\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/security\/?p=972<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: Voting Machine Maker Threatens Legal Action Against Auditors<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.switched.com\/2008\/03\/21\/voting-machine-maker-threatens-legal-action-against-auditors\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.switched.com\/2008\/03\/21\/voting-machine-maker-threatens-legal-action-against-auditors\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: Planned Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality of E-Vote Counting<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/e-voter.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/ny-planned-lawsuit-challenges.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/e-voter.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/ny-planned-lawsuit-challenges.html<\/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 In order to help get themselves out of a very real PR problem Sequoia Voting Systems has followed their recent &#8220;Half Truth&#8221;\u009d press release with an announcement that they are sending their Advantage voting systems to &#8220;Kwaidan Consulting of Houston, Texas.&#8221;\u009d This is great! Wonderful! Oh wait a [&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-5832","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\/5832","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=5832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}