{"id":10933,"date":"2014-11-11T07:02:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T15:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10933"},"modified":"2014-11-10T23:00:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T07:00:20","slug":"a-very-smart-post-about-why-touch-screen-voting-can-never-work-from-a-guy-named-potatohead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10933","title":{"rendered":"A Very Smart Post About Why Touch-Screen Voting Can Never Work From a Guy Named ‘Potatohead’"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a very<\/i> smart post, particularly from someone calling themselves “potatohead” at DailyKos: “About Touch Screen Voting”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’d quote something from it, but then you’d be less likely to click over and read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The author has almost<\/i> everything exactly<\/i> right, discussing concepts that BRAD BLOG<\/a> readers should understand very very well by now, but using different words than I usually do, so it may help everything soak in a bit more.<\/p>\n

He (presuming a “he” here) even extends his explanation of the inherent, unfixable problem that make touch-screen voting systems 100% unverifiable (and, therefore, antithetical to American democracy) to explain why both “open source” computer voting systems and Internet Voting can’t work either, for the same reasons.<\/p>\n

Only quibble: He needs to put the word “hand-” before the words “marked ballots” and we’d be 100% golden. Thank you, “potatohead”.<\/p>\n

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This is a very smart post, particularly from someone calling themselves “potatohead” at DailyKos: “About Touch Screen Voting”. I’d quote something from it, but then you’d be less likely to click over and read the whole thing. The author has almost everything exactly right, discussing concepts that BRAD BLOG readers should understand very very well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,166],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-touch-screen-vote-hopping"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10933"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}