{"id":5786,"date":"2008-03-10T16:24:32","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T23:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5786"},"modified":"2008-03-11T02:41:19","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T09:41:19","slug":"mashed-into-bits-florida-touch-screen-voting-machines-28000-of-them-to-be-crushed-recycled-repurposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5786","title":{"rendered":"‘Mashed Into Bits’: Florida Touch-Screen Voting Machines – 28,000 of them – to be Crushed, Recycled, Repurposed…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blogged by Brad from the road…<\/em><\/p>\n

The report is music to our ears, and far too long in coming. From today’s Tampa Tribune<\/em>…<\/a><\/p>\n

TAMPA – Workers today started loading more than 3,000 touch-screen voting machines destined to be resold, disassembled or crunched into bits by a recycler as Hillsborough County begins changing how ballots are cast and counted.
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\nThe devices will be replaced by machines that scan and record paper ballots as part of a legislatively mandated change requiring a paper trail after elections.
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\nThe machines being hauled away by Creative Recycling of Tampa were 6 years old. The company has a state contract to dispose of 27,785 of the touch-screen machines in counties using them.<\/div>\n

Hillsborough County’s Supervisor of Elections, Buddy Johnson, offers the best use of the machines — he says in the article that “he wanted to donate one to the county’s history museum” — but beware, while some are to be scrapped, some of these bad machines may show up at an election near you…<\/p>\n

The first step for the recycling company is to try selling the machines to states that still allow touch-screen voting.<\/p>\n

Then, Creative Recycling workers will extract parts that can be resold, such as a thermal printer in each machine.<\/p>\n

Any pieces that can’t be sold will wind up shoved into a two-story-tall machine that will mash them into bits that will be separated and recycled.<\/p><\/div>\n

We shall drift off to bed tonight, imagining the sweet, sweet sound of touch-screen voting machines being “mashed into bits.” We never<\/em> thought we’d say it, but: Thank you, Florida.<\/p>\n

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Blogged by Brad from the road… The report is music to our ears, and far too long in coming. From today’s Tampa Tribune… TAMPA – Workers today started loading more than 3,000 touch-screen voting machines destined to be resold, disassembled or crunched into bits by a recycler as Hillsborough County begins changing how ballots are […]<\/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":[28,16,147],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-reform","category-florida","category-lava","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786","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=5786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5786"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}