{"id":5851,"date":"2008-03-30T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T03:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2008-03-31T15:45:50","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T22:45:50","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-march-30-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5851","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For March 30, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

<\/a>Last weekend a diverse group of members of the Election Integrity community met in Palo Alto, CA. One of the group’s jobs was to write a mission statement. This statement became known to them as the “Creekside Declaration” and was recently memorialized by Chicago Tribune Columnist Robert Koehler, a participant in the meeting, in his column<\/a>. The “Creekside Declaration” gives the mission of that small group, and I would argue all of us who work on elections integrity issues, as; “Mission: To encourage citizen ownership of transparent, participatory democracy.” <\/p>\n

Back from New Orleans so today I will catch up on a few of the big stories that took place while I was gone and catch up with the latest. <\/p>\n

Did you think that no one uses punch cards any longer? You were wrong. One of the last, Ada Co Idaho has decided to change over to optical-scan because their punch-card machines and tabulators are just getting too old….<\/p>\n

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