{"id":6050,"date":"2008-06-07T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T03:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2008-06-07T23:07:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T06:07:46","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-june-7-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6050","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For June 7, 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=\"left\"><\/a>Tennessee has joined the growing list of states that require a paper trail for use in recounts and random audits. The governor has signed legislation that requires all systems purchased after Jan. 1 to be precinct-based optical scan systems. We congratulate the Tennessee activists who have made this all happen.   &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NAtional: Nelson bill would abolish Electoral College<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/nelson-bill-would-abolish-electoral-college-2008-06-06.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/nelson-bill-would-abolish-electoral-college-2008-06-06.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NAtional: Americans Ponder Accuracy of Electoral Process<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angus-reid.com\/polls\/view\/30874\/americans_ponder_accuracy_of_electoral_process\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.angus-reid.com\/polls\/view\/30874\/americans_ponder_accuracy_of_electoral_process<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Primary turnout lowest on record<br \/>\nWith no high-profile issues on the ballot, many state voters decide to sit this one out<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/06\/06\/BA9V114PH8.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/06\/06\/BA9V114PH8.DTL<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Confidence in vote system a wild card<br \/>\nUncertainty swirls as elections loom<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2008\/jun\/07\/confidence-in-vote-system-a-wild-card\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2008\/jun\/07\/confidence-in-vote-system-a-wild-card\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Voting system testing begets controversy<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2008\/jun\/07\/voting-system-testing-begets-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2008\/jun\/07\/voting-system-testing-begets-controversy\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MI: Benzie County &#8211; Tribe moving forward to resolve vote issues<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leelanaunews.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/06\/tribe-moving-forward-to-resolve-vote-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.leelanaunews.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/06\/tribe-moving-forward-to-resolve-vote-issues\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: State Officials Inspect Polls for Disability Access<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capemaycountyherald.com\/article\/29877-state-officials-inspect-polls-disability-access\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.capemaycountyherald.com\/article\/29877-state-officials-inspect-polls-disability-access<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TN: Tennessee voting machines must create paper trail<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080607\/NEWS0201\/806070357\/1009\/NEWS01\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080607\/NEWS0201\/806070357\/1009\/NEWS01<\/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 Tennessee has joined the growing list of states that require a paper trail for use in recounts and random audits. The governor has signed legislation that requires all systems purchased after Jan. 1 to be precinct-based optical scan systems. We congratulate the Tennessee activists who have made this [&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-6050","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\/6050","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=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}