{"id":3701,"date":"2006-10-31T14:24:19","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T21:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2006-10-31T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T22:45:38","slug":"mess-with-texas-cont-votes-hopping-from-democrat-to-republican-now-reported-in-jefferson-county-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3701","title":{"rendered":"MESS WITH TEXAS CON&#8217;T: Votes Hopping from Democrat to Republican Now Reported in Jefferson County, TX!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/ESS_Texas.gif\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfdm.com\/engine.pl?station=kfdm&#038;id=17343&#038;template=breakout_dayportvideo.shtml&#038;dateformat=%25M+%25e,%25Y\">Reports now<\/a> from yet another Texas county that votes are hopping from Democratic to Republican on paperless touch-screen ES&#038;S systems during Early Voting. This time in Jefferson County&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Friday night, KFDM reported about people who had cast straight Democratic ticket ballots, but the touch-screen machines indicated they had voted a straight Republican ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those voters including Lamar University professor, Dr. Bruce Drury, believe the problem is a programming error.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, KFDM spoke to another voter who says it&#8217;s not just happening with straight ticket voting, he says it&#8217;s happening on individual races as well, Jerry Stopher told us when he voted for a Democrat, the Republican&#8217;s name was highlighted.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nJefferson county clerk Carolyn Guidry says her office has checked the calibration of the machines and found no problems.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nShe says the electronic system is very sensitive.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last night <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3697\">we reported<\/a> similar problems as reported by a State Rep in San Antonio (Bexar County) on the same ES&#038;S machines. As well, the problem was earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/hammeroftruth.com\/2006\/10\/25\/message-from-concerned-diebold-voter\/\">reported occuring in Dallas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previous vote-hopping reports from other states (all benefitting Republicans) have so far come in from <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3692\">South Florida<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3675\">St. Louis County, Missouri<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arktimes.com\/blogs\/arkansasblog\/2006\/10\/mr_diebold_paging_mr_diebold.aspx\">Arkansas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve create a new <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?cat=166\">Touch-Screen Vote Hopping<\/a> category here so users can check all such reported incidents at a glance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports now from yet another Texas county that votes are hopping from Democratic to Republican on paperless touch-screen ES&#038;S systems during Early Voting. This time in Jefferson County&#8230; Friday night, KFDM reported about people who had cast straight Democratic ticket ballots, but the touch-screen machines indicated they had voted a straight Republican ticket. Some of [&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":[76,6,5,47,166],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2006","category-election-irregularities","category-ess","category-texas","category-touch-screen-vote-hopping"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","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=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}