{"id":6371,"date":"2008-09-10T16:40:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T23:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2008-09-10T16:40:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T23:40:39","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-september-10-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6371","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For September 10, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple days ago in this space I mentioned a newly posted video and report from the good folks at UC Santa Barbara with some of their findings from their work on the Calif. Top-To-Bottom Review. This report has gotten a lot of press and the video is very much worth viewing. A few of the articles are linked below. <\/p>\n

There is also a report of a potential problem in Johnson Co Kansas where election officials are reporting that Premier\/Diebold software causes their TSx DREs to time-out after 2.5 minutes of no activity. So if a voter takes too long to read or think about their next choice the machine begins to warn them and then after 2.5 minutes the voter card is kicked-out and the ballot is cancelled. The voter then has to start over, after some assistance from poll workers. This is a national problem that is probably being ignored or worked-around in most counties. <\/p>\n

There are also reports from Pennsylvania and Indiana, The Brennan Center and the New York Times concerning student voting issues and what seems to be a concerted attempt to make it harder for students to vote. …<\/p>\n

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