{"id":6853,"date":"2009-01-24T16:30:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T00:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6853"},"modified":"2009-01-26T12:42:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T20:42:58","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-january-24-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6853","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For January 24, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the recent general election is completed some counties are now in the process of determining how much that election cost the taxpayers. One Colorado county <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2009\/jan\/24\/counties-struggle-on-election-costs\/\">reports<\/a> a cost of $36.57 per vote cast. That is an amazing amount especially when much of that cost can be directly attributed to the type of voting system a county is using and the amount of &#8220;assistance&#8221;\u009d the county buys from the vendors&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CO: Counties struggle on election costs <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2009\/jan\/24\/counties-struggle-on-election-costs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2009\/jan\/24\/counties-struggle-on-election-costs\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MN: Senate recount: Coleman loses bid to check at least 4,500 ballots<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/38235094.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUZ\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/38235094.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUZ<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MN: Ritchie wants to improve Minnesota&#8217;s election system<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northlandsnewscenter.com\/news\/local\/38251564.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.northlandsnewscenter.com\/news\/local\/38251564.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OH: It&#8217;s time to set record straight on the results of Ohio vote<br \/>\nNumber of people at the polls, votes for Obama beat records <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/news\/willard\/38263819.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/news\/willard\/38263819.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>PA: Franklin County &#8211; Election cycle cost $400,000<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald-mail.com\/?cmd=displaystory&#038;story_id=215104&#038;format=html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.herald-mail.com\/?cmd=displaystory&#038;story_id=215104&#038;format=html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Did GOP shoot itself in foot on voter ID bill vote?<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/lubbockonline.com\/stories\/012309\/col_380910675.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/lubbockonline.com\/stories\/012309\/col_380910675.shtml<\/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>Now that the recent general election is completed some counties are now in the process of determining how much that election cost the taxpayers. One Colorado county reports a cost of $36.57 per vote cast. That is an amazing amount especially when much of that cost can be directly attributed to the type of voting [&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,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,122],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-voting-news","category-election-2008"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853","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=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}