{"id":4658,"date":"2007-06-11T17:28:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T00:28:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-12T07:30:07","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T14:30:07","slug":"exclusive-video-christopher-hitchens-says-votes-wont-count-as-long-as-there-are-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4658","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Christopher Hitchens Says Votes Won’t Count ‘As Long As There Are Machines’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer<\/em><\/p>\n

The one George W. Bush supporter who spoke up against the debacle of Ohio’s 2004 election in a March, 2005, Vanity Fair<\/em> article<\/a> titled, “Ohio’s Odd Numbers,” told The BRAD BLOG<\/a> at a book signing last Tuesday in Santa Monica that E-votng is a “racket and fraud” which “should never have been allowed to happen.” The outspoken controversialist told us that although he recently became an American citizen he has no plans to vote, believing that his vote would not count in any case “as long as there are machines.”<\/p>\n

Hitchens, who found the 2004 Ohio results “impossible to swallow,” says during the short video-taped encounter that “there has to be a paper ballot.” In his 2005 Vanity Fair<\/em> piece detailing the many problems discovered during Ohio’s presidential election, he contended that without reforms to the system Americans will continue to be “treated like serfs or extras when they present themselves to exercise their franchise.”<\/p>\n

The short video-taped encounter with Hitchens follows in full below…
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Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer The one George W. Bush supporter who spoke up against the debacle of Ohio’s 2004 election in a March, 2005, Vanity Fair article titled, “Ohio’s Odd Numbers,” told The BRAD BLOG at a book signing last Tuesday in Santa Monica that E-votng is a “racket and fraud” which “should never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"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":[260,8,28],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christopher-hitchens","category-election-2004","category-election-reform"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}