{"id":5584,"date":"2008-01-20T12:43:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T20:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2008-01-21T00:36:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T08:36:54","slug":"sour-grapes-voting-machine-conspiracy-theories-in-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5584","title":{"rendered":"Sour Grapes Voting Machine Conspiracy Theories in South Carolina…"},"content":{"rendered":"

As usual, another Democratic candidate is revealing a sour grapes conspiracy theory, claiming that voting machines were the reason for his loss, after alleging that hundreds of ES&S touch-screen systems failed to work on Election Day, turning away an untold number of voters.<\/p>\n

Oh, wait, the complainant was a Republican, not a Democrat. And he, John McCain, didn’t lose, he won, in South Carolina where, CNN reported yesterday<\/a>, the touch-screen voting machines in 100% of the precincts in Horry County failed to boot up and weren’t available for voters to use until noon.<\/p>\n

Go figure. Other than that, everything is going very well, and anybody who says otherwise is unnecessarily crying wolf and causing a dangerous lack of confidence in our electoral system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As usual, another Democratic candidate is revealing a sour grapes conspiracy theory, claiming that voting machines were the reason for his loss, after alleging that hundreds of ES&S touch-screen systems failed to work on Election Day, turning away an untold number of voters. Oh, wait, the complainant was a Republican, not a Democrat. And he, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,6,5,252,248],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-election-irregularities","category-ess","category-john-mccain","category-south-carolina"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","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=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}