{"id":3725,"date":"2006-11-03T22:06:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T05:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3725"},"modified":"2006-11-04T04:58:10","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T11:58:10","slug":"reading-the-e-voting-tea-leaves-from-todays-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3725","title":{"rendered":"Reading the E-Voting Tea Leaves From Today’s Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gosh…maybe there’s a pattern here or something. Is there something to be concerned about here?…Here are just a few<\/i> of the headlines from the National section (much more in the state-by-states) of today-only’s ‘Daily Voting News’<\/a> from John Gideon…<\/p>\n

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  • Leaked 2003 Report On Maryland’s Diebold Voting System Reveals Serious Security Concerns Were Withheld From Election Board, Governor, Public LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • HBO hacked about Diebold’s docu claims LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • Delays loom in counting ballots LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • U.S. Attorney’s Office: We’re ready to investigate election fraud LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • Columnist “\u201c Ellis Henican – A vote for old-fashioned poll method LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • E-voting may be scarier than hanging chads LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • Distrust of voting machines is running high LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • Electronic voting: Cure or a bigger problem? LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • Rage against the machine LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • Voting system raises security questions LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • Voting machines vulnerable, says report by UConn faculty LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • LOU DOBBS: Avalanche of Last Minute Problems with E-Voting Machines LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • Electronic Voting Machines Under Scrutiny LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • E-voting problems still exist, critics say LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • How to restore trust at the ballot box
    \nProblems with high-tech machines have some voters feeling left out     LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/div>\n

    This list is also notable because it contains the very first story ever<\/i> on e-voting concerns (at least that I could find in a quick search) from the completely useless Los Angeles Times<\/i>! Waytago, guys! Just in time! You win the BRAD BLOG’s<\/a> “Most Useless and Irresponsible Big City Newspaper in the Country” Award!<\/p>\n

    Their very first article comes today despite a mountain of problems for years, not to mention the last few months, across California, including the myriad disasters (“sleepovers” and everything else<\/a>) just down the road in San Diego; a hapless Sec. of State who has approved one hackable, malfunctioning electronic voting machine after another (offering an ersatz blessing for the rest of the states from “the country’s largest voting market,” as Diebold calls us); and one of the most important Sec. of State races ever, with a real democracy champion, Debra Bowen<\/a>, running against the inveterate liar<\/a> and democracyhater, SoS Bruce McPherson.<\/p>\n

    Add to that list of reasons why the LA Times<\/i> should be utterly ashamed of themselves is this comment in their own article today from one of the top scientists on McPherson’s own team of voting systems advisors:<\/p>\n

    “This issue is a matter of national security,” said computer scientist David Jefferson of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. “The legitimacy of government depends on getting elections right.”<\/div>\n

    Of course, Jefferson’s been saying that for months. But has the LA Times<\/i> bothered to report any of it? Little wonder they haven’t devoted a single article to this issue until just three days before the election. Nothing to see here at all. Move along. Don’t read those headlines above. Everything’s still just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Gosh…maybe there’s a pattern here or something. Is there something to be concerned about here?…Here are just a few of the headlines from the National section (much more in the state-by-states) of today-only’s ‘Daily Voting News’ from John Gideon… Leaked 2003 Report On Maryland’s Diebold Voting System Reveals Serious Security Concerns Were Withheld From Election […]<\/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":[18,21,9,76,106,6,28],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-mcpherson","category-california","category-daily-voting-news","category-election-2006","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725","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=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}