{"id":6844,"date":"2009-01-23T16:31:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T00:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6844"},"modified":"2009-01-23T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T00:31:42","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-january-23-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6844","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For January 23, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From this evenings &#8220;Featured&#8221;\u009d article: &#8220;The recount of the 2008 Minnesota Senate race gives us an opportunity to evaluate the accuracy of precinct-count optical-scan voting. Though there have been contentious disputes over which absentee ballot envelopes to open, the core technology for scanning ballots has proved to be extremely accurate.&#8221;\u009d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Featured &#8211; MN: Optical-scan voting extremely accurate in Minnesota<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/freedom-to-tinker.com\/blog\/appel\/optical-scan-voting-extremely-accurate-minnesota\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/freedom-to-tinker.com\/blog\/appel\/optical-scan-voting-extremely-accurate-minnesota<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>National: All Cost, No Benefit: States Aim to Raise Voting Barriers to Prevent Rare Crime<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com\/talk\/blogs\/project_vote\/2009\/01\/all-cost-no-benefit-states-aim.php\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com\/talk\/blogs\/project_vote\/2009\/01\/all-cost-no-benefit-states-aim.php<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MN: Franken&#8217;s request to dismiss Coleman suit is denied<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/38147149.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUF\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/38147149.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUF<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>SC: Lexington County &#8211; Gaston councilman protests loss by 8 votes<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/politics\/story\/660721.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/politics\/story\/660721.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>From this evenings &#8220;Featured&#8221;\u009d article: &#8220;The recount of the 2008 Minnesota Senate race gives us an opportunity to evaluate the accuracy of precinct-count optical-scan voting. Though there have been contentious disputes over which absentee ballot envelopes to open, the core technology for scanning ballots has proved to be extremely accurate.&#8221;\u009d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-voting-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844","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=6844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}