{"id":7042,"date":"2009-04-05T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T23:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7042"},"modified":"2009-04-05T20:56:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T03:56:05","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-april-05-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7042","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; For April 05, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are election recounts in Minnesota and New York that have the media&#8217;s eyes and ears but we should not forget that there is also a recount beginning next week in Maricopa Co Arizona. In this case it is not an elections recount to decide who\/what won an election. Instead this is a criminal investigation to determine whether there was manipulation of the vote tally on the voting machines in Pima Co. during the 2006 Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) election. <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7040\">Today&#8217;s &#8220;Featured&#8221;\u009d article<\/a> has the whole story, including all of the background&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Featured &#8211; AZ: Ballots from &#8216;Fixed&#8217; Arizona Election Finally to be Counted in Criminal Investigation by State AG<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7040\" target=\"_blank\"><i>https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7040<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MN: GOP senators tell Coleman to make a federal case out of it; expert nonplussed<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/31167\/republicans-coleman-federal-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/31167\/republicans-coleman-federal-supreme-court<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NM: Voting machine service contracts canceled<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.currentargus.com\/ci_12050917\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.currentargus.com\/ci_12050917<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NM: Who will pay for voting machine maintenance?<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/newmexicoindependent.com\/23918\/who-will-pay-for-voting-machine-maintenance\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/newmexicoindependent.com\/23918\/who-will-pay-for-voting-machine-maintenance<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>IL: Write-in candidates hope voters pick up their pens<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southtownstar.com\/news\/1511180,040509writein.article\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.southtownstar.com\/news\/1511180,040509writein.article<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OK: Voter ID law stirs partisan passions<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newson6.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=10130780\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.newson6.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=10130780<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>TX: Heflin crafts kinder, gentler Voter ID bill<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reporternews.com\/news\/2009\/apr\/05\/heflin-crafts-kinder-gentler-voter-id-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.reporternews.com\/news\/2009\/apr\/05\/heflin-crafts-kinder-gentler-voter-id-bill\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>WI: Fon Du Lac County &#8211; Voters go to polls on Tuesday [NOTE admonition for voters not to put stickers onto ballots or machines may be damaged] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fdlreporter.com\/article\/20090405\/FON0101\/904050565\/1985\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.fdlreporter.com\/article\/20090405\/FON0101\/904050565\/1985<\/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>There are election recounts in Minnesota and New York that have the media&#8217;s eyes and ears but we should not forget that there is also a recount beginning next week in Maricopa Co Arizona. In this case it is not an elections recount to decide who\/what won an election. 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