{"id":7129,"date":"2009-05-07T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T23:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2009-05-07T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T23:47:11","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-may-07-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=7129","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ for May 07, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Riverside County, California public servants want to introduce a ballot issue to ask voters their opinion of electronic voting. But the watchdog group Save R Votes thinks it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a waste of money. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153”We don’t doubt that people like electronic voting, but it is not safe, transparent or auditable,” says Tom Courbat, the group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s founder.<\/p>\n

Complaints from Georgia about the new citizenship requirement for voter registration are rebutted by Secretary of State Karen Handel, who argues that the law is necessary to prevent voter fraud. She claims discrimination by the federal government, arguing that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not fair that Ohio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Secretary of State Jennifer Bruner can take actions favorable to her party without federal oversight, but Handel can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do the same in Georgia. The debate about voter ID continues in Texas and South Carolina with some machine problems from Mississippi, Michigan, and Ohio….<\/p>\n

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