{"id":2631,"date":"2006-11-02T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2006-11-02T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T09:41:07","slug":"state_by_state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2631","title":{"rendered":"State by State Voting Technology Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9004585&amp;pageNumber=3#wi\">Computerworld<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>State contracted with Accenture in 2004 and launched its database before the September 2006 primary; legality of contract was challenged in court and company was forced to expand state access to proprietary database software. Wisconsin law previously required voter registration only in municipalities with a population over 5,000, which works out to about one-sixth of them; as of January 2006, state law required that all voters register. (Election Day registration is available.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcf.org\/\">The Century Foundation<\/a> characterizes Wisconsin&#8217;s poll-worker training efforts as unsatisfactory [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcf.org\/publications\/electionreform\/states.pdf\">TCF State report PDF<\/a>]; those working with the system, in turn, say the new software is slower and harder to use than the old software.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computerworld: State contracted with Accenture in 2004 and launched its database before the September 2006 primary; legality of contract was challenged in court and company was forced to expand state access to proprietary database software. Wisconsin law previously required voter registration only in municipalities with a population over 5,000, which works out to about one-sixth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}