{"id":2515,"date":"2006-03-07T12:29:12","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T16:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2006-03-07T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T16:29:12","slug":"tom-delay-in-primary-battle-today-election-machine-stolen-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2515","title":{"rendered":"Tom DeLay in Primary Battle Today, Election Machine Stolen Over the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/localnews\/stories\/030706dnmetvotingmachine.8f10b1af.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ESS_IVotronic.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=10000103&#038;sid=auUc6TL3ASGs&#038;refer=us\">Today<\/a>, Tom DeLay faces his first primary battle for re-election down in Texas since being indicted on money-laundering and conspiracy charges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpho.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=4594081&#038;nav=23Ku\">Tonight<\/a>, he&#8217;ll be back in D.C. at a fundraiser held by lobbyists. Smartly done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/localnews\/stories\/030706dnmetvotingmachine.8f10b1af.html\">Over the weekend<\/a>, an ES&#038;S IVotronic touch-screen voting machine was stolen from the house of an election judge. That, despite the water-tight security that American Election Officials are known for across the globe. (Just ask <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002503.htm\">Linda Lamone in Maryland<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, however, all four of the counties in DeLay&#8217;s 22nd congressional district, use Hart-Intercivic machines and <i>not<\/i> ES&#038;S machines. It&#8217;s just an unfortunate coincidence that we can&#8217;t help but think about Tom DeLay, Elections, Voting Machines and Theft all at the same time. Oh, well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Tom DeLay faces his first primary battle for re-election down in Texas since being indicted on money-laundering and conspiracy charges. Tonight, he&#8217;ll be back in D.C. at a fundraiser held by lobbyists. Smartly done. Over the weekend, an ES&#038;S IVotronic touch-screen voting machine was stolen from the house of an election judge. That, despite [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","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=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}