{"id":3514,"date":"2006-09-22T15:31:03","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T22:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2006-09-22T15:31:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T22:31:03","slug":"more-on-the-milwaukee-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3514","title":{"rendered":"More on the Milwaukee Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"

We reported last week<\/a> on the mess in Milwaukee’s primary election where a “programming error” is blamed for some 80,000 votes being recorded, when only 45,000 people actually voted. A recount was held to determine what the real vote count was. The city, however, was only concerned with the number<\/i> of voters, as opposed to whether or not the votes were actually recorded accurately.<\/p>\n

An editorial on the whole mess<\/a> in Wednesday’s Shepard-Express<\/i> concludes this way (with a now-familiar warning):<\/p>\n

If you thought there were computer glitches during the light vote in last week’s primary, just wait until November with a heavy turnout for the governor’s race in Wisconsin and in hard-fought Senate and congressional races across the country.<\/p>\n

In November, a third of all precincts in the country will be using brand-new electronic voting systems for the first time.<\/p>\n

As we learned in Milwaukee and Waukesha, newly trained poll workers breaking in untested electronic systems will discover so many bugs you’ll think the elections are taking place in a tropical flophouse.<\/p>\n

Joel McNally co-hosts the “Morning Magazine” show from 6 to 10 a.m. weekdays on 1290 WMCS-AM.<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We reported last week on the mess in Milwaukee’s primary election where a “programming error” is blamed for some 80,000 votes being recorded, when only 45,000 people actually voted. A recount was held to determine what the real vote count was. The city, however, was only concerned with the number of voters, as opposed to […]<\/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":[76,6,143],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2006","category-election-irregularities","category-wisconsin","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","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=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}