{"id":3657,"date":"2006-10-24T10:58:26","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T17:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2006-10-25T08:04:19","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T15:04:19","slug":"diebold-laugh-line-of-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3657","title":{"rendered":"Diebold Laugh Line of the Moment…"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>In a WaPo<\/i> article from Saturday<\/a> (we were outta town, and are just now getting caught up with much) on the possible origins of the double-super-secret Diebold source code which showed up<\/a> out of the blue in a Maryland candidate’s office last week, Diebold’s leading spokesliar Mark Radke is quoted as saying the following…apparently with a straight face…<\/p>\n

Radke said the company was not averse to disclosing its code if the law were changed to require it. But he said disclosure would dampen innovation in the field.<\/div>\n

Heheh…”dampen innovation in the field.” Those Diebold spokesguys and their crazy sense of humor.<\/p>\n

By the way, as we were looking for a nice photo of Diebold’s top mouth-piece, we came across a new little factoid — new to us anyway. Seems that before Radke came to his new post as Diebold’s chief liar, he had been<\/a> Chief of Staff to George W. Bush’s crony SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt. Small world. Go figure.<\/p>\n

Diebold’s chief obfuscator is a former Bush Administration official. Just one of those wacky coincidences, we guess.<\/strike><\/p>\n

CORRECTION 10\/25\/06<\/b>: Good news! After digging around on this one, trying to figure out how it could <\/i>possibly be that Radke was a former Bush Administration official and none of us knew about that until now, Russ Michaels, one of the filmmakers of HBO’s Hacking Democracy<\/i><\/a> writes to let us know that there is a <\/i>different Mark Radke out there! The Diebold Radke is different from the Bush crony SEC Radke. Details on the other one, Mark S.<\/i> Radke, right here…<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a WaPo article from Saturday (we were outta town, and are just now getting caught up with much) on the possible origins of the double-super-secret Diebold source code which showed up out of the blue in a Maryland candidate’s office last week, Diebold’s leading spokesliar Mark Radke is quoted as saying the following…apparently with […]<\/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":[3,102],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dieboldpremier","category-maryland","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","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=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}