{"id":2662,"date":"2006-04-06T11:14:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T15:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2006-06-12T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T02:30:14","slug":"allegheny-county-pa-tries-againthis-time-with-ess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2662","title":{"rendered":"Allegheny County, PA Tries Again&#8230;This Time with ES&#038;S"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Diebold_wewontrest.gif\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Originally Allegheney County, PA had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/06036\/649814.stm\">hoped<\/a> to use Diebold&#8217;s electronic voting machines &#8212; until they found out that Diebold machines were <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002164.htm\">hackable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Sequoia.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">Then they decided instead to go with Sequoia Voting Systems instead &#8212; until they found out that <i>their<\/i> machines are <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002626.htm\">hackable too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, with just six weeks left before their primary election, and <a href=\"http:\/\/kdka.com\/local\/local_story_095143836.html\">against the wishes<\/a> of Allegheny County&#8217;s Chief Executive who felt it was safer to stay with their old lever systems, Allegheny <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/mld\/centredaily\/news\/politics\/14271255.htm\">decided<\/a> instead to go with new ES&#038;S touch-screen voting machines. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ESS.gif\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">ES&#038;S, of course, is the company whose machines <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002522.htm\">failed all over Texas<\/a> during the March 7th primary in Texas, leading to <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002615.htm\">state-wide election contest<\/a> by a Republican former Supreme Court Justice. ES&#038;S saw more than <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002590.htm\">30% of their memory cards fail<\/a> in recent pre-election tests in Summit County, OH, more than <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002565.htm\">1000 cards fail<\/a> in NC, and their machines <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002653.htm\">failed to work completely<\/a> this week as early voting began in Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with the new ES&#038;S voting machines Allegheny County, PA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally Allegheney County, PA had hoped to use Diebold&#8217;s electronic voting machines &#8212; until they found out that Diebold machines were hackable. Then they decided instead to go with Sequoia Voting Systems instead &#8212; until they found out that their machines are hackable too. Yesterday, with just six weeks left before their primary election, and [&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":[28,5,48],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-reform","category-ess","category-pennsylvania","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","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=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}