{"id":7285,"date":"2009-07-06T15:48:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T22:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7285"},"modified":"2009-07-06T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T22:48:15","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-july-04-06-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7285","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ for July 04-06, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Co-Editors: Dave Klein<\/a> and John Washburn<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

How can we get a fair and honest election? In the Philippines, citizens worry about paper-ballot fraud; in India, they worry about electronic-voting fraud; in Iran, many question the results of their recent paper-ballot election; in Colorado, the Arapahoe County Clerk extols the virtues of DREs and decries paper ballots. Maybe the way to get a fair and honest election lies not in our technology, but in our transparency. <\/p>\n

In 1896 the New York legislature and the courts agreed that to permit an essential step of the electoral process to be within the exclusive control of the State, outside of public view, renders “voting a useless formality as it depends upon the will of the [state] as to who shall hold office, and not upon the vote of the people.”\u009d<\/p>\n

Could open, public observation of the vote count put election questions to rest?…<\/p>\n

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