{"id":6811,"date":"2009-01-13T16:10:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T00:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2009-03-04T13:17:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T21:17:25","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-january-13-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6811","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For January 13, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently it was revealed that the Humboldt Election Transparency Project had found that the county&#8217;s Diebold\/Premier voting system had lost 197 ballots. Today Kim Zetter of WiredBlog, in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2009\/01\/diebold-audit-l.html\">one of our featured articles<\/a>, revealed that the GEMS audit logs not only don&#8217;t answer questions about how the 197 ballots were lost but don&#8217;t answer many questions at all. Zetter also reveals that the state of California is investigating the lost ballots and these &#8220;Greek&#8221;\u009d audit logs. One of the featured interviews in Zetter&#8217;s article is with Doug Jones of U of Iowa. His comments are discussed in <a href=\"http:\/\/iowavoters.org\/2009\/01\/13\/uis-jones-on-diebold-totally-nuts\/\">our second featured article<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Featured &#8211; CA: Humboldt County &#8211; Voting Machine Audit Logs Raise More Questions about Lost Votes in CA Election<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2009\/01\/diebold-audit-l.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2009\/01\/diebold-audit-l.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Featured &#8211; National: UI&#8217;s Jones on Diebold: &#8220;Totally Nuts&#8221;\u009d<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/iowavoters.org\/2009\/01\/13\/uis-jones-on-diebold-totally-nuts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/iowavoters.org\/2009\/01\/13\/uis-jones-on-diebold-totally-nuts\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>National: Editorial &#8211; The Voting Rights Act in the 21st century<br \/>\nWE SAY The process of requiring preclearance for certain states will eventually become irrelevant.<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idsnews.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=65354&#038;comview=1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.idsnews.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=65354&#038;comview=1<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Riverside County &#8211; Complaint questions election approval<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydesert.com\/article\/20090113\/NEWS0301\/901130324\/1008\/news03\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.mydesert.com\/article\/20090113\/NEWS0301\/901130324\/1008\/news03<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Senate panel backs Buescher<br \/>\nLawmakers are unanimous for the former legislator to be secretary of state. The full Senate may vote today.<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/statehouse08\/ci_11439096\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/statehouse08\/ci_11439096<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Senate committee gives initial OK to Buescher<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aurorasentinel.com\/articles\/2009\/01\/13\/news\/state_and_region\/doc496c2d5b57dcb609318708.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.aurorasentinel.com\/articles\/2009\/01\/13\/news\/state_and_region\/doc496c2d5b57dcb609318708.txt<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Broward County &#8211; Commissioners pay election tab that doubled<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/politics\/broward\/blog\/2009\/01\/commissioners_pay_election_tab.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/weblogs.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/politics\/broward\/blog\/2009\/01\/commissioners_pay_election_tab.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MN: As judges named, Minn. Senate legal fight grows<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/37445384.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUs\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/37445384.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUs<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NJ: State approves paper trail for voting machines<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courierpostonline.com\/article\/20090113\/NEWS01\/901130352\/1006\/news01\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.courierpostonline.com\/article\/20090113\/NEWS01\/901130352\/1006\/news01<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: Counties partially reimbursed for cost of paper ballots<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/n\/content\/oh\/story\/news\/local\/2009\/01\/13\/ddn011309paperballots.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/n\/content\/oh\/story\/news\/local\/2009\/01\/13\/ddn011309paperballots.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Gregg County &#8211; County officials hear from voting machine expert<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journal.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2009\/01\/13\/01132009_voting_machines.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.news-journal.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2009\/01\/13\/01132009_voting_machines.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WA: King County &#8211; Detectives investigating potential voter fraud on Craigslist<br \/>\nBid apparently made to sell ballot<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/395749_voterfraud13.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/395749_voterfraud13.html<\/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>Recently it was revealed that the Humboldt Election Transparency Project had found that the county&#8217;s Diebold\/Premier voting system had lost 197 ballots. Today Kim Zetter of WiredBlog, in one of our featured articles, revealed that the GEMS audit logs not only don&#8217;t answer questions about how the 197 ballots were lost but don&#8217;t answer many [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9,3,409],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-daily-voting-news","category-dieboldpremier","category-humboldt-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811","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=6811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}