{"id":6917,"date":"2009-02-13T16:14:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T00:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6917"},"modified":"2009-02-13T16:14:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T00:14:19","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-february-13-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6917","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For February 13, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all of you paraskevidekatriaphobiacs or triskaidekaphobiacs this may not have been a very good day. For all the rest, hope you had a Happy Friday the 13th. <\/p>\n<p> The chances of Norm Coleman taking back his lead over Al Franken in the Minnesota Senatorial race have taken a long step back today with a ruling from the recount trial judge that lowers the number of rejected absentee ballots that can be recounted.  &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Featured &#8211; MN: Senate recount trial judges: No widespread problem<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/39574697.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/39574697.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Riverside County, CA Refusing to Bill E-Voting Vendor for Cost of Manual Tally<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6915\" target=\"_blank\"><i>https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6915<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CA: Riverside County &#8211; State, county election officials differ on reimbursement from machine vendors<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydesert.com\/article\/20090213\/NEWS0301\/902130308\/1006\/news01\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.mydesert.com\/article\/20090213\/NEWS0301\/902130308\/1006\/news01<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Proposal: Ax electronic voting after 2013<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrosepress.com\/articles\/2009\/02\/13\/news\/doc49950a31c424a256598444.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.montrosepress.com\/articles\/2009\/02\/13\/news\/doc49950a31c424a256598444.txt<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Coffman sues ethics panel to get complaint dismissed<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_11693780\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_11693780<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>CO: Coffman asks judge to stop ethics hearing<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2009\/feb\/13\/coffman-asks-judge-to-stop-ethics-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2009\/feb\/13\/coffman-asks-judge-to-stop-ethics-hearing\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Hillsborough County &#8211; FBI Investigating Former Election Chief Johnson&#8217;s Spending<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/content\/2009\/feb\/12\/130000\/fbi-investigating-former-election-chief-johnsons-s\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/content\/2009\/feb\/12\/130000\/fbi-investigating-former-election-chief-johnsons-s\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MN: Sec of St Mark Ritchie on the right track, wants election reform <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-2927-Minneapolis-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m2d12-Sec-of-St-Mark-Ritchie-on-the-right-track-wants-election-reform\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-2927-Minneapolis-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m2d12-Sec-of-St-Mark-Ritchie-on-the-right-track-wants-election-reform<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MN: Photo ID plan gets rejected<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inforum.com\/event\/article\/id\/230854\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.inforum.com\/event\/article\/id\/230854\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MN: House committee kills voter ID proposal<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/politics\/ci_11693390?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/politics\/ci_11693390?nclick_check=1<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MN: Opinion &#8211; Minnesota Law and Federal Equal Protection<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/moritzlaw.osu.edu\/electionlaw\/comments\/articles.php?ID=4941\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/moritzlaw.osu.edu\/electionlaw\/comments\/articles.php?ID=4941<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MN: Minnesota Judges Expected to Rule Monday on Ballot Parameters<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqpolitics.com\/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003031086\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.cqpolitics.com\/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003031086<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MS: Editorial &#8211; Photo ID <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djournal.com\/pages\/story.asp?ID=285926&#038;pub=1&#038;div=Opinion\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.djournal.com\/pages\/story.asp?ID=285926&#038;pub=1&#038;div=Opinion<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MS: Compromise voter ID bill passes House, faces uncertain future<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdispatch.com\/news\/article.asp?aid=255\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.cdispatch.com\/news\/article.asp?aid=255<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY: The League of Women Voters&#8217; voting system standards adopted in 2006 were for electronic systems, and never were intended to apply to non-electronic systems such as lever machines.<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheresthepaper.org\/rebut_NYVV_LWVNYS_Feb12_09.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.wheresthepaper.org\/rebut_NYVV_LWVNYS_Feb12_09.htm<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TN: Voting paper-trail requirement may not occur<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.t-g.com\/story\/1501796.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.t-g.com\/story\/1501796.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>UT: Bill Requires Identification to Vote<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/kcpw.org\/article\/7434\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/kcpw.org\/article\/7434<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ireland &#8211; Voting machine contracts &#8216;to last 25 years&#8217;<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/ireland\/2009\/0213\/1233867935296.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/ireland\/2009\/0213\/1233867935296.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>For all of you paraskevidekatriaphobiacs or triskaidekaphobiacs this may not have been a very good day. For all the rest, hope you had a Happy Friday the 13th. The chances of Norm Coleman taking back his lead over Al Franken in the Minnesota Senatorial race have taken a long step back today with a ruling [&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],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6917","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\/6917","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=6917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}