{"id":4206,"date":"2007-02-28T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2007-03-02T17:59:14","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T01:59:14","slug":"false-choices-in-the-debate-on-voting-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4206","title":{"rendered":"‘False Choices in the Debate on Voting Technology’"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>AlterNet’s<\/a> front page today is featuring a fresh version of my story from last week on the false dichotomies being forwarded by Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) and the supporters of his Election Reform bill, HR 811 [PDF]<\/a>, as written. It outlines the unsupported talking points and disingenuous arguments being made to prop up the failings of the bill (most notably, its failure to ban DREs) by Holt’s office as well as his public-advocacy group supporters like PFAW, Common Cause, MoveOn, VoteTrustUSA, etc…<\/p>\n

The original BRAD BLOG version was here<\/a>. The updated Alternet version (including a bit more background on the brouhaha for newbies is here: “False Choices in the Debate on Voting Technology”<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve also now set up a new “Special Coverage” page for the Holt Bill Debate here: www.BradBlog.com\/Holt<\/strong><\/a>. It includes the most notable BRAD BLOG<\/a> stories since the bill dropped, as well as essential articles and calls to action elsewhere. I hope it’ll be a useful source. It’s also always available from the red “Special Coverage” box in the right sidebar.<\/p>\n

Also related…A new “Anti-DRE Talking Points” document from VotersUnite.org (HTML version with links & grafs…<\/a>, 2-Page PDF version…<\/a>) features simple bullet-points on why DRE\/touch-screen voting systems must be banned and the urgent need to reform the Holt bill to ensure it. Both versions of that doc are also linked from the new Holt Special Coverage page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AlterNet’s front page today is featuring a fresh version of my story from last week on the false dichotomies being forwarded by Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) and the supporters of his Election Reform bill, HR 811 [PDF], as written. It outlines the unsupported talking points and disingenuous arguments being made to prop up the failings […]<\/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":[26,89,28,218],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brad-blog","category-media-appearance","category-election-reform","category-rush-holt","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206","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=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}