{"id":3886,"date":"2006-12-07T12:35:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T20:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2006-12-07T00:19:08","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T08:19:08","slug":"robert-koehler-electronic-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3886","title":{"rendered":"ROBERT KOEHLER: &#8216;Electronic Treason&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Tribune Media Services&#8217; Robert Koehler, in his latest column, &#8220;Electronic Treason&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Electronic voting, like the war in Iraq, is starting to get bad press. And following the debacle of last month&#8217;s midterm elections, a lot of people have begun to demand an exit strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Surely there ought to be a limit to the number of egregiously wrong turns the same ideologues are allowed to make at one time.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nA year and a half ago, when I first started writing about disenfranchisement and the troubling evidence of electronic voting fraud in the 2004 election, this was not a respectable topic for mainstream discourse. Those who broached it were relegated to a spectrum of mockery that ran from &#8220;sore loser&#8221; to &#8220;conspiracy nut.&#8221; But the ongoing horror show of &#8220;glitches&#8221; perpetrated on democracy by touchscreen voting machines this year can no longer be ignored even by those who would prefer to, and e-voting disasters are now being reported with some regularity.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We feel ya, Bob. And thanks for being there where few dared to go back in those dark days of mid-2005.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/commonwonders.com\/archives\/col374.htm\">at Koehler&#8217;s own site<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-koehler\/electronic-treason_b_35736.html\">at Huff Po<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Tribune Media Services&#8217; Robert Koehler, in his latest column, &#8220;Electronic Treason&#8221;&#8230; Electronic voting, like the war in Iraq, is starting to get bad press. And following the debacle of last month&#8217;s midterm elections, a lot of people have begun to demand an exit strategy. Surely there ought to be a limit to the number [&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":[8,76,106,28,180],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2004","category-election-2006","category-election-fraud","category-election-reform","category-fl-13","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","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=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}