{"id":2569,"date":"2006-03-17T15:54:34","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T19:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2009-04-02T17:19:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T00:19:54","slug":"az-election-official-apologizes-for-video-taped-outburst-aired-on-brad-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2569","title":{"rendered":"AZ Election Official Apologizes for Video-Taped Outburst Aired on BRAD BLOG"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Tuscon Arizona’s local NBC TV news affiliate ran a story Wednesday night on the raging controversy across the state concerning Sec. of State Jan Brewer’s recent agreement to allow hackable Diebold touch-screen voting machines into the state.<\/p>\n

Their report (linked below<\/i>) included a snippet of the video that The BRAD BLOG ran as an Exclusive<\/a> at the end of February featuring Pima County, AZ Election Director, Brad Nelson freaking out and verbally assaulting Election Integrity Advocate, John Brakey — on video — during a public local precinct council meeting.<\/p>\n

Nelson, the station reports, has apparently apologized for his tirade. Brakey is also interviewed in the new report on Pima County being “pushed into a national controversy.”<\/p>\n

Their coverage of “both sides” of the story led last Wednesday’s 6 O’Clock newscast in Tuscon.<\/p>\n

MORAL: Always bring a video camera (or audio recording device) when meeting public Elections Officials. They often don’t fare well under the harsh light of actual public scrutiny, and footage of such encounters may help your local TV affiliate suddenly become interested in reporting on the story.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Report on AZ’s Diebold Touch-Screen Voting Machine Controversy:<\/b>
\n<\/a>
\n— Video in Streaming Flash format…<\/a>
\n— Windows Media Player Version…<\/a><\/p>\n

— Our original Video Exclusive story, featuring Nelson’s full tirade is here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuscon Arizona’s local NBC TV news affiliate ran a story Wednesday night on the raging controversy across the state concerning Sec. of State Jan Brewer’s recent agreement to allow hackable Diebold touch-screen voting machines into the state. Their report (linked below) included a snippet of the video that The BRAD BLOG ran as an Exclusive […]<\/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":[70,3,414],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-dieboldpremier","category-pima-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","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=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}