{"id":511,"date":"2004-09-10T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T17:02:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-13T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T07:09:15","slug":"rise-of-the-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Rise of the Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Electoral-Vote.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">The state of California has decided to sue Diebold, the nation&#8217;s largest manufacturer of electronic (touch screen) voting machines because the company lied about the machines&#8217; security. The machines have a special feature that creates fake vote totals when a secret 2-digit code is typed in. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-machines8sep08,1,384118.story\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mlink\">The <i>LA Times<\/i> article<\/a> about the lawsuit does not specify whether there are separate codes to fake a Bush victory and fake a Kerry victory or whether one candidate&#8217;s victory has been programmed in advance or whether election officials can enter any result they want. However, Diebold&#8217;s CEO, Walden O&#8217;Dell, has said he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verifiedvoting.org\/article.asp?id=2334\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mlink\">&#8220;committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes for the president.&#8221;<\/a> The suit comes 6 months after the machines failed in the March primary. The machines are used in 19 California counties and many states nationwide.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Electoral-Vote.com: The state of California has decided to sue Diebold, the nation&#8217;s largest manufacturer of electronic (touch screen) voting machines because the company lied about the machines&#8217; security. The machines have a special feature that creates fake vote totals when a secret 2-digit code is typed in. The LA Times article about the lawsuit [&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":[21,3,8],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-dieboldpremier","category-election-2004"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}