{"id":6755,"date":"2008-12-17T16:30:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T00:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6755"},"modified":"2009-03-04T13:46:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T21:46:44","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-december-17-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6755","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For December 17, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hillsborough Co Florida outgoing election chief, Buddy Johnson, wanted $2.3M from the county to cover election cost overruns from the Nov. election. Stupidly Johnson did not bother showing up to appear before the county supervisors so they could ask him questions. The supervisors took his no-show as an insult and they have deferred any decision until they can review the election office’s records. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile the Maryland Board of Public Works has approved a contract between the state and Premier\/Diebold for $974,000 for six months to cover municipal elections within the state. That contract could add up to $1.4M if two three month options are exercised. All of this even though the state is scrapping their paperless DREs at the end of next year in place of a paper based system. <\/p>\n

And, after the reports of Diebold accuracy failures in Humboldt Co., California, the county has decided to scrap their present system and replace it with machines provided by Hart Intercivic. The selection of Hart is a bit strange in light of the fact that Hart has removed themselves from all EAC certification testing. They will not, in the future, have a voting system that has been tested to the voting system standards and certified by the EAC….<\/p>\n

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