{"id":6537,"date":"2008-10-20T16:21:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T23:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6537"},"modified":"2008-10-20T21:20:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T04:20:46","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-october-20-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6537","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For October 20, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

15 days until Election Day. <\/p>\n

Election officials in Jacksonville Florida must not have done the required Logic and Accuracy testing on all of their optical scan machines to be used in early voting. Nearly half of the optical scan machines in use in the city failed because they indicated the ballot was too long. This is clearly an error that should have been discovered in pre-election Logic and Accuracy testing. The problem is also being reported in other counties in the state and is being attributed to the machines purchased by the state. <\/p>\n

Voters in Houston Texas were faced with long lines for the first day of early voting. Long-lines in some voting sites caused by failures of the computers used to check-in the voters. There were also some reports of voters who voted straight-party Democrat only to find that their Presidential selection was given to the Republican….<\/p>\n

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