{"id":2859,"date":"2006-05-22T13:43:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2006-06-14T23:42:10","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T06:42:10","slug":"florida-election-official-says-trust-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2859","title":{"rendered":"Florida Election Official Says &#8216;Trust No One&#8217;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media\"><b>Elections chief urges citizens to demand vote accountability <\/b><\/p>\n<p>DAYTONA BEACH &#8212; A maverick elections official made clear Saturday that two things remain constant: the state&#8217;s flawed voting system and his passion for trying to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>Eyes glinting, hands gesturing boldly, Ion Sancho, Leon County&#8217;s elections supervisor, accused the state&#8217;s political leaders of undermining democracy.<\/p>\n<p>First, they forced counties to adopt electronic voting machines that can be tampered with, then, last year, they made it illegal to use paper ballots to recount close races<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;We need more audits. We need recounts,&#8221; Sancho said. &#8220;Trust no one. If it can&#8217;t be verified, it can&#8217;t be used.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/NewsJournalOnline\/News\/Headlines\/frtHEAD03POL052106.htm\">Go, Ion, go!&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections chief urges citizens to demand vote accountability DAYTONA BEACH &#8212; A maverick elections official made clear Saturday that two things remain constant: the state&#8217;s flawed voting system and his passion for trying to fix it. Eyes glinting, hands gesturing boldly, Ion Sancho, Leon County&#8217;s elections supervisor, accused the state&#8217;s political leaders of undermining democracy. [&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-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","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=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}