{"id":6362,"date":"2008-09-06T16:34:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T23:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2008-09-06T16:43:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T23:43:59","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-september-06-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6362","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For September 06, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this space yesterday I mentioned that the Colorado state Election Director, Holly Lowder, had resigned and no reason had been given at that time. It seems that an investigation shows that she shared an address and phone number with a vendor of software services to her office and to 30 counties in the state. Of course everyone is telling the media that she just retired but the fact that this retirement happens just two months before a national election raises many eyebrows. <\/p>\n

In previous DVNs we talked about Indian River Co, FL and the idiocy of doing an experiment in the middle of a real election. If you will recall the experiment led to an error which caused some ballots to be double-recorded. The Supervisor of Elections had reported 5,189 votes had been counted twice but yesterday she claims that she “misspoke”\u009d and that the total is actually over 10,000 votes. <\/p>\n

And finally Palm Beach Co, FL has essentially admitted to a total disaster in election administration. The state has certified the primary election except for the one judicial race in question in Palm Beach Co. Every candidate in every race probably has good reason to question the results in their particular race. The state will probably now step in and oversee the election in November. There is no longer any confidence in that office. …<\/p>\n

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