{"id":2728,"date":"2006-04-24T10:25:57","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T14:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2007-09-09T01:34:16","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T08:34:16","slug":"columnist-asks-could-a-sharp-eighth-grader-swing-a-florida-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2728","title":{"rendered":"Columnist Asks ‘Could a Sharp Eighth Grader Swing a Florida Election’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ralph De La Cruz writes today in his South Florida Sun-Sentinel<\/i> column titled “Could a sharp eighth grader swing Florida election?”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Tallahassee· There’s always a word or phrase.<\/p>\n

Something that captures the mood of the moment. The ear, if not the imagination, of a legislative session. <\/p>\n

Last year it was “living will.” Or, depending on your take on the Terri Schiavo case, perhaps it was “judicial tyranny.”<\/p>\n

This year, it may be “transparency.”<\/p>\n

That word has been surfacing a lot in Tallahassee. Unfortunately, it’s not coming from the Capitol.<\/p>\n

It’s become the favored word of Leon County Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho, who’s become a lightning rod for concerns about electronic voting machines.
\n…
\nNow, it’s already bad enough to consider that our voting systems can be corrupted by a sharp eighth grader who might be able to access an elections office.<\/p>\n

Think of what a savvy, committed adult could do.<\/p><\/div>\n

As Mr. De La Cruz writes for a South Florida paper, and includes his email address and phone number at the bottom of his column<\/a>, perhaps a few of you may wish to thank him for his coverage of Ion’s story, and suggest to him that he cover Clint Curtis’ story in a future column as well.<\/p>\n

After all, in Curtis’ affidavit<\/a>, he says he was told that the vote-rigging prototype Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL) asked him to create was meant “to control the vote in South Florida.”<\/p>\n

For those unfamiliar with Curtis’ amazing story, a good primer is always available at this address: www.BradBlog.com\/ClintCurtisSummary.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While we’re on the topic, please remember that Curtis is now running for Congress against Feeney and his massive DeLay\/Abramoff\/Top-Tier-GOP Money Machine and your support is needed if he is to stand a chance of beating Feeney in the very “conservative” district which Feeney carved out for himself when he was Florida House Speaker. See below for more details on how you can help him take on one of Congress’ most corrupt<\/a> Friends-of-the-Bushes…<\/p>\n

For more info on The BRAD BLOG’s <\/a> continuing investigative series on
\nThe Clint Curtis\/Tom Feeney\/Yang Enterprises Vote-Rigging Scandal series, please see:
\n– A Quick Summary<\/a> of the story so far.
\n– An Index of all the Key Articles & Evidence<\/a> in the series so far.
\n– Curtis is now running for U.S. Congress against Feeney.
\nTo support or for more info, see: www.ClintCurtis.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ralph De La Cruz writes today in his South Florida Sun-Sentinel column titled “Could a sharp eighth grader swing Florida election?”: Tallahassee· There’s always a word or phrase. Something that captures the mood of the moment. The ear, if not the imagination, of a legislative session. Last year it was “living will.” Or, depending on […]<\/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":[76,16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2006","category-florida","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","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=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}