{"id":6060,"date":"2008-06-10T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2008-06-11T05:02:14","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T12:02:14","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-june-10-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6060","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For June 10, 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>Two unsuccessful candidates for Bullock Co., Alabama, commissioner have requested that the state Attorney General investigate absentee vote irregularities in the June 3 election. Both candidates won by large margins at the polls. In both cases the candidates lost after an unusual number of absentee ballots were cast and the results were just the opposite. One of the winning candidates admitted that he and his family &#8220;helped&#8221; Bullock County residents apply for absentee ballots, but he claimed it was not done to &#8220;break any laws.&#8221; One has to wonder how much money changed hands from candidate to voter.<\/p>\n<p>That story, and today&#8217;s other notable voting news items, all linked below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AL: Bullock Co. hopefuls claim vote problems<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080610\/NEWS02\/806100314\/1007\/news01\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080610\/NEWS02\/806100314\/1007\/news01<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AL: Marshall County &#8211; Recount requested<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandmountainreporter.com\/story.lasso?ewcd=2b475d738ffbcf7d\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.sandmountainreporter.com\/story.lasso?ewcd=2b475d738ffbcf7d<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AZ: Woman, 97, Battles Voter ID Law<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpho.com\/news\/16554725\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.kpho.com\/news\/16554725\/detail.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: San Joaquin County &#8211; Grand jury: S.J. elections better<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recordnet.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080610\/A_NEWS\/806100320\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.recordnet.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080610\/A_NEWS\/806100320<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Elections offices nailing down process to check voting machines&#8217; results<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/news\/2008\/jun\/10\/elections-offices-nailing-down-process-check-votin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/news\/2008\/jun\/10\/elections-offices-nailing-down-process-check-votin\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Palm Beach County &#8211; 3rd vote system in 8 years touted as &#8216;end of the line&#8217;<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/politics\/content\/local_news\/epaper\/2008\/06\/09\/a8a_paperballot_0610.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/politics\/content\/local_news\/epaper\/2008\/06\/09\/a8a_paperballot_0610.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IN: Johnson Co. scrambling to replace voting machines destroyed in flood<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wishtv.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=8459902&#038;nav=0Ra7\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.wishtv.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=8459902&#038;nav=0Ra7<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MS: Jones defends vote against voter ID<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/local\/story\/614165.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/local\/story\/614165.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: ACLU asks voting machine tests be made public<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2008\/06\/aclu_asks_voting_machine_tests.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2008\/06\/aclu_asks_voting_machine_tests.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: ACLU-NJ Demands End to Voting Machine Gag Order<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu-nj.org\/news\/aclunjdemandsendtovotingma.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.aclu-nj.org\/news\/aclunjdemandsendtovotingma.htm<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Cuyahoga County may have to cut budget, staff to pay for elections<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cleveland.com\/metro\/2008\/06\/cuyahoga_county_may_have_to_cu.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/blog.cleveland.com\/metro\/2008\/06\/cuyahoga_county_may_have_to_cu.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>SC: Voting going smoothly but slowly<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleston.net\/news\/2008\/jun\/10\/voting_going_smoothly_overall_despite_ha44026\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.charleston.net\/news\/2008\/jun\/10\/voting_going_smoothly_overall_despite_ha44026\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>SC: Spartanburg County &#8211; At the polls: 10 precincts hope to trim wait times<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goupstate.com\/article\/20080610\/NEWS\/184294702\/1051\/NEWS01\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.goupstate.com\/article\/20080610\/NEWS\/184294702\/1051\/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 Two unsuccessful candidates for Bullock Co., Alabama, commissioner have requested that the state Attorney General investigate absentee vote irregularities in the June 3 election. Both candidates won by large margins at the polls. In both cases the candidates lost after an unusual number of absentee ballots were cast [&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-6060","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\/6060","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=6060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}