{"id":3773,"date":"2006-11-10T16:45:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T00:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2006-11-12T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2006-11-12T21:38:11","slug":"3773","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3773","title":{"rendered":"Santorum, GOP Calls for Impounding of Touch-Screen Machines in PA&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of important points buried fairly deep into my <i>ComputerWorld<\/i> post-mortem article on the 2006 Electoral Meltdown. So for those too lazy (okay, &#8220;<i>busy<\/i>&#8220;) to read the whole thing, I&#8217;d like to make sure you&#8217;re aware of a few key points, so far underreported by the corporate mainstream media:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rick Santorum and the Pennsylvania GOP <a href=\"http:\/\/votetrustusa.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2012&#038;Itemid=113\">wrote a letter<\/a> to state officials on Tuesday afternoon demanding touch-screen systems in 27 counties be impounded after reports of votes flipping from Republican to Democrat. I applaud the aggressive, pro-active stance. Even from Santorum. Dems should have done the same long ago with every report of Dem to Rep votes flipping. This is just one of the reasons I <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3760\">mentioned previously<\/a> that Santorum shouldn&#8217;t have conceded.<\/li>\n<li>The election in the FL-13 U.S. House race continues to be <a href=\"http:\/\/computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;taxonomyId=13&#038;articleId=9004975&#038;intsrc=hm_topic\">a mess<\/a>. With just 368 votes separating the two candidates fighting for Katherine Harris&#8217;s old seat, some 18,000 votes seem to have completely disappeared on the ES&#038;S touch-screen systems.<\/li>\n<li>A full ten U.S. House races are still &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/electioncentral.tpmcafe.com\/blog\/electioncentral\/2006\/nov\/09\/10_house_races_still_undecided\">too close to call<\/a>;&#8221; many of them to come down to attempts to recount votes cast on uncountable electronic voting machines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.velvetrevolution.us\/electionstrikeforce\/2006\/10\/reward_fund.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/VR_500kFraudReward_Poster.gif\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Be sure to read my complete, <a href=\"http:\/\/computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;taxonomyName=security&#038;articleId=9004987&#038;taxonomyId=17&#038;intsrc=kc_feat\">ingeniously crafted <i>CW<\/i> article<\/a>, of course, for much more. But I just wanted to make sure you guys were aware of a couple of those above important issues of note as things move foward.<\/p>\n<p>And a reminder&#8230;The <a href=\"http:\/\/VelvetRevolution.us\">VelvetRevolution.us Election Strike Force<\/a> is still offering it&#8217;s $500,000 reward for evidence of fraud in last Tuesday&#8217;s election. We were happy to see <a href=\"http:\/\/MoveOn.org\">MoveOn.org<\/a> join in on Election Day with their own $250k reward as well. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velvetrevolution.us\/electionstrikeforce\/2006\/10\/reward_fund.html\">Complete details on VR&#8217;s $500k reward here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I should also note that VR contributed to the Zogby Exit poll down in the CA-50 Busby\/Bilbray race we <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3772\">wrote about earlier<\/a> today. Between that, other Exit Polls we&#8217;ve done around the country, and the reward fund, we&#8217;re always happy for your support via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velvetrevolution.us\/donate.php\">donations to the effort<\/a> if you&#8217;re able.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of important points buried fairly deep into my ComputerWorld post-mortem article on the 2006 Electoral Meltdown. So for those too lazy (okay, &#8220;busy&#8220;) to read the whole thing, I&#8217;d like to make sure you&#8217;re aware of a few key points, so far underreported by the corporate mainstream media: Rick Santorum and the Pennsylvania [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,106,6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2006","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773","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=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}