{"id":7254,"date":"2009-06-24T16:28:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T23:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7254"},"modified":"2009-06-24T16:28:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T23:28:21","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-june-24-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7254","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Voting News&#8217; for June 24, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Co-Editors: <a href=\"mailto:Klein.Dave@votersunite.org\">Dave Klein<\/a> and <a href=\"mailto:Washburn.John@votersunite.org\">John Washburn<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>A glaring innaccuracy in the New York Times article about Congressman Holt&#8217;s new election reform bill is pointed out in today&#8217;s BradBlog article. The NYT says, &#8220;Mr. Holt&#8217;s bill would require paper ballots to be used for every vote cast in November 2010.&#8221; But according to the bill&#8217;s text, e-voting machines that merely produce a voter-verifiable paper record are grandfathered in until 2014. <\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Kurt Browning and ES&#038;S have both responded to the report from Florida Fair Elections Center. <\/p>\n<p>Comelec says: We&#8217;re ready to go forward with the automation. The Philippines Senate is asking: Who exactly is Smartmatic and are they really able to do the automation? And Business World responds with &#8220;A recipe for disaster.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National: &#8221; New York Times Wrong Again on &#8216;E-Voting&#8217; &#8221; <br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7249\" target=\"_blank\"><i>https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7249<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>National: Holt: When it comes to voting, a paper ballot system is a must <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newjerseynewsroom.com\/state\/holt-when-it-comes-to-voting-a-paper-ballot-system-is-a-must\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.newjerseynewsroom.com\/state\/holt-when-it-comes-to-voting-a-paper-ballot-system-is-a-must<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>National: US Supreme Court issues first ruling to limit Voting Rights Act <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/articles\/2009\/jun2009\/vote-j24.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/articles\/2009\/jun2009\/vote-j24.shtml<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>National: Dynamic Originalism? <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorfonlaw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.dorfonlaw.org\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>FL: Group faults ballot scanner for Florida overvotes <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/content\/2009\/jun\/24\/240957\/na-ballot-scanner-faulted\/news-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/content\/2009\/jun\/24\/240957\/na-ballot-scanner-faulted\/news-politics\/<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>GA: State may sue Justice Department <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/gpbnews.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/state-may-sue-justice-department.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/gpbnews.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/state-may-sue-justice-department.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dominica: PM defends Cabinets&#8217; decision to set up committee for voter ID cards <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dominicanewsonline.com\/politics\/6340.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.dominicanewsonline.com\/politics\/6340.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Iran: What Actually Happened in the Iranian Presidential Election? Hard Look at the Numbers <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/votersforpeace.us\/press\/index.php?itemid=1985\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/votersforpeace.us\/press\/index.php?itemid=1985<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Iran: Iran leader accepts new deadline for vote complaints <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE55M5K420090623\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE55M5K420090623<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Iran: Iran TV: partial vote recount verifies election result <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/lite.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/DAH456610.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/lite.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/DAH456610.htm<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Philippines: No election could spark revolution <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/inquirerheadlines\/nation\/view\/20090624-212106\/No-election-could-spark-revolution\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/inquirerheadlines\/nation\/view\/20090624-212106\/No-election-could-spark-revolution<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Philippines: Comelec draws line with senators on contract review <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/businessmirror.com.ph\/home\/top-news\/12269-comelec-draws-line-with-senators-on-contract-review.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/businessmirror.com.ph\/home\/top-news\/12269-comelec-draws-line-with-senators-on-contract-review.html<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Philippines: A recipe for disaster <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bworldonline.com\/BW062509\/content.php?id=141\" target=\"_blank\"><i>http:\/\/www.bworldonline.com\/BW062509\/content.php?id=141<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votersunite.org\">VotersUnite.Org<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:ellen@votersunite.org\">Ellen Theisen<\/a>, Director and Managing Editor<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:Klein.Dave@votersunite.org\">Dave Klein<\/a>, Editor<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:Washburn.John@votersunite.org\">John Washburn<\/a>, Editor<\/p>\n<p>Daily Voting News was founded on February 6, 2004 by John Gideon (1947-2009). To assist with Daily Voting News, please send links to news articles to <a href=\"mailto:dvn-tips@votersunite.org\">dvn-tips<\/a>. To donate, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votersunite.org\/donate.asp\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To encourage citizen ownership of transparent, participatory democracy.&#8221; The Creekside Declaration. March 22, 2008<\/p>\n<p><b>**Articles and commentary included in &#8220;Daily Voting News&#8221; do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors of Daily Voting News, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VotersUnite.org\">VotersUnite.Org<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">BradBlog.Com<\/a>. Articles are selected for inclusion to inform subscribers&#8217; ability to draw their own conclusions based on noteworthy and credible news, research, legislation, and debate bearing on the integrity of elections.**<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-Editors: Dave Klein and John Washburn A glaring innaccuracy in the New York Times article about Congressman Holt&#8217;s new election reform bill is pointed out in today&#8217;s BradBlog article. The NYT says, &#8220;Mr. Holt&#8217;s bill would require paper ballots to be used for every vote cast in November 2010.&#8221; But according to the bill&#8217;s text, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7254","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\/7254","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7254"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}