{"id":5962,"date":"2008-05-06T21:17:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T04:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5962"},"modified":"2008-05-07T12:02:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T19:02:12","slug":"whats-going-on-in-lake-county-indiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5962","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Going on in Lake County Indiana?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/IndianaPrimary_LakeCountyMissing_050608_0910pmPT.gif\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Polls have been closed in Lake County for some 6 hours, but no results in Indiana&#8217;s corner county, closely bordering Obama&#8217;s homestate stronghold of Chicago and home to Gary. Tiny Union County has also failed to come up with any numbers just yet.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, Indiana remains &#8220;too close to call&#8221; according to all the cable nets, with 92% of precincts (not necessarily <i>votes<\/i>, since Lake County is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_County,_Indiana\">second-most populous<\/a> in the state) reporting. There are currently just under 20k votes reportedly between Clinton, who is currently leading, and Obama, out of more than 1.1 million &#8220;counted&#8221; so far.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Lake County uses a combination of the failed, unverifiable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microvote.com\/products.htm\">MicroVote Infinity DREs and paper-based MV-464&#8217;s<\/a> voting machines, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/verifiedvoting.org\/verifier\/map.php?topic_string=5std&amp;state=indiana&amp;county=Lake&amp;year=2008\">Verified Voting&#8217;s database<\/a> of voting systems.<\/p>\n<p>Union County, on the other hand, you needn&#8217;t worry about, since our old friend <a href=\"http:\/\/verifiedvoting.org\/verifier\/map.php?topic_string=5std&#038;state=indiana&#038;county=Union&#038;year=2008\">Diebold runs the place<\/a> with a combination of their <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=J36Jfkxd1vA\">hackable<\/a> paper-ballot systems, and their unverifiable and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3467\">hackable<\/a> DRE (touch-screen) systems. But Union also has a tiny population of just more than 7k, whereas Lake has a population of just less than half a million.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ll be able to follow this one through the night, so if I can&#8217;t (or even if I can), I welcome you folks to tell the story in comments below as you are best able to figure out what seems to be going on there. Tonight, I&#8217;m guessing you can tell the story as well as (or better than) I can&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 12:47pm ET:<\/strong> Results now coming in. The state <i>could<\/i> be a squeaker by a few thousand votes or less.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, with Indiana&#8217;s own estimates of 43,000 voters who could be disenfranchised by their new <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5934\">Photo ID\/voter suppression law<\/a>, and less-conservative estimates suggesting several hundred thousand voters who could be robbed of their <i>right<\/i> to vote&#8230;Gosh, hope the final results in the Hoosier State don&#8217;t come down to the question of a dozen or so 80 &#038; 90 year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5960\">disenfranchised nuns<\/a> from South Bend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls have been closed in Lake County for some 6 hours, but no results in Indiana&#8217;s corner county, closely bordering Obama&#8217;s homestate stronghold of Chicago and home to Gary. Tiny Union County has also failed to come up with any numbers just yet. As of now, Indiana remains &#8220;too close to call&#8221; according to all [&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":[239,122,6,226,44],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-election-2008","category-election-irregularities","category-hillary-clinton","category-indiana","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962","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=5962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5962"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}