{"id":5298,"date":"2007-11-16T14:32:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T22:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2007-11-16T14:32:58","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T22:32:58","slug":"in-november-2006-two-machines-smoked-only-one-was-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5298","title":{"rendered":"In November 2006, Two Machines &#8216;Smoked&#8217; &#8211; Only One Was Recalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Blogged by Ellen Theisen of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votersunite.org\">VotersUnite.Org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Smoking_AirConditionRecalled_VotingMachineNotRecalled.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>-=-<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Individuals installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpsc.gov\/cpscpub\/prerel\/prhtml07\/07508.html\">Trane air conditioning units<\/a> observed smoking and smelled a burning odor in three units during installation testing procedures. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Trane <strong>voluntarily initiated a product safety recall<\/strong> of the offending 265 volt model and included the 208 and 230 volt models even though no incidents were observed with those models.<\/p>\n<p><center>-=-<\/center><\/p>\n<p>During the November 2006 general election in Tennessee, a defect in the voltage system caused a Hart InterCivic eSlate voting machine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votersunite.org\/article.asp?id=6805\">to start smoking<\/a>. Approximately 2,625 citizens were injured when the voting machine refused to report their votes.<\/p>\n<p>Hart InterCivic failed to retrieve the votes and <strong>took no action to protect consumers or voters<\/strong>. According to one report, a Knoxville computer company retrieved the votes from the chips inside the machine.<\/p>\n<p>The votes were essential to deciding an extremely controversial, deadlocked pension question involving Knox County sheriff&#8217;s officers.<\/p>\n<p>The question eventually passed by 497 votes out of over 103,000 cast &#8220;\u201d less than \u00bd% margin. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wate.com\/Global\/story.asp?s=7257901\">The plan will cost tax payers<\/a> $15 million initially and a projected $100 million over the next 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>For the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genepatterson.com\/?p=196\">first time ever in Tennessee<\/a> a county will borrow money (by selling bonds) to pay for a pension fund.<\/p>\n<p><center>-=-<\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to call for accountability in the machinery of our electoral system. <a href=\"http:\/\/salsa.democracyinaction.org\/o\/2671\/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12354\">Please sign the petition<\/a> in support of VoterAction&#8217;s call for Congressional investigations into blatant and destructive <strong>commercial fraud<\/strong> in the electronic voting machine industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by Ellen Theisen of VotersUnite.Org -=- Individuals installing Trane air conditioning units observed smoking and smelled a burning odor in three units during installation testing procedures. No injuries were reported. In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Trane voluntarily initiated a product safety recall of the offending 265 volt model and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,38],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-hart-intercivic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}