{"id":3012,"date":"2006-06-28T11:49:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T18:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2006-06-28T16:34:53","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T23:34:53","slug":"washington-post-a-single-person-could-swing-an-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3012","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: ‘A Single Person Could Swing an Election’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Must hit the road shortly to take the Democracy Train down to San Diego for tonight’s Emergency Townhall<\/a> on the Busby\/Bilbray election results fiasco<\/a>. If you’re anywhere near San Diego or Oceanside please come out tonight<\/i>! We had a great<\/i> time last night in Los Angeles!<\/p>\n

More on all of these as soon as I can catch my breath. The fine lower-cased blogger, skippy the bush kangaroo<\/a>, was amongst those in attendance last night (as was Joseph Cannon of Cannonfire<\/a>) and so I’ll defer for the moment to skippy’s coverage<\/a> (since I don’t have time for any of my own right). Skippy got a coupla small points slighly wrong, but I suspect he’ll update since I let him know. As BRAD BLOG<\/a> readers realize, unlike with AP and NY Times<\/i> accuracy counts for bloggers.<\/p>\n

Lou Dobbs report last night on the Brennan Center’s year-in-the-making report on 120 threats to E-Voting Security<\/a> was fan-damn-tastic. When I can catch my breath, I hope to get it, along with the video, posted in full. And more thoughts on that Brennan Center report. But for now, by way of teaser, Dobbs started it this way: “More evidence tonight that an increasing number of elections in this country can be outright stolen. And no one would ever know. It’s incredible.”<\/p>\n

And, as of this hour, here are the results from his “Quick Poll” on this topic last night (you can still vote yourselves<\/a> if you want)<\/p>\n

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Any questions? We’re told he’ll still be on the same beat tonight (6pm ET, 3pm PT — you can send thank you notes\/comments here<\/a> to Dobbs for all of his very responsible coverage over the past three weeks and counting!)<\/p>\n

Last, but most certainly not least, Washington Post<\/i> covered<\/a> the Brennan Center report themselves this morning. They highlighted the very message we’ve been trying to convey to Francine Busby, the voters in San Diego and across the nation over the last three weeks. The WaPo<\/i> article<\/a> begins this way…<\/p>\n

A Single Person Could Swing an Election<\/b><\/p>\n

To determine what it would take to hack a U.S. election, a team of cybersecurity experts turned to a fictional battleground state called Pennasota and a fictional gubernatorial race between Tom Jefferson and Johnny Adams. It’s the year 2007, and the state uses electronic voting machines.<\/p>\n

Jefferson was forecast to win the race by about 80,000 votes, or 2.3 percent of the vote. Adams’s conspirators thought, “How easily can we manipulate the election results?”<\/p>\n

The experts thought about all the ways to do it. And they concluded in a report issued yesterday that it would take only one person, with a sophisticated technical knowledge and timely access to the software that runs the voting machines, to change the outcome…<\/b><\/div>\n

See you tonight in San Diego!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Must hit the road shortly to take the Democracy Train down to San Diego for tonight’s Emergency Townhall on the Busby\/Bilbray election results fiasco. If you’re anywhere near San Diego or Oceanside please come out tonight! We had a great time last night in Los Angeles! More on all of these as soon as I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21,3,28,5,13,39,53],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-busbybilbray","category-california","category-dieboldpremier","category-election-reform","category-ess","category-lou-dobbs","category-sequoia-voting-systems","category-washington-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","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=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}