{"id":6458,"date":"2008-10-02T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T18:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6458"},"modified":"2013-02-20T11:48:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T19:48:35","slug":"video-homer-simpsons-and-obamas-touch-screen-voting-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6458","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Homer Simpson&#8217;s (and Obama&#8217;s) Touch-Screen Voting Nightmare&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6427\">told you about<\/a> <i>The Simpsons&#8217;<\/i> upcoming episode wherein Homer, attempting to vote for Barack Obama on a touch-screen voting machine, has a few problems in the process. Here&#8217;s the very funny, were it not so very unfunny, clip from the upcoming show&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1aBaX9GPSaQ&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1aBaX9GPSaQ&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n[<i>NOTE: The above video is no longer embeddable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1aBaX9GPSaQ&#038;feature=player_embedded\">Watch it at YouTube<\/a>.<\/i>]\n<p>So <i>The Simpsons<\/i> now get it. Why don&#8217;t Obama and the Dems? And why are they doing little or nothing to ensure that <i>every voter in the nation<\/i> is able to cast a vote on a <i>hand-marked paper ballot<\/i> this year?<\/p>\n<p>Tell your favorite candidate(s) that you&#8217;ll support them if they support <i>you<\/i> and <i>your vote<\/i> by pledging not to concede this year until all votes are counted, counted accurately, or challenged in a court of law. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/StandingForVoters.org\">StandingForVoters.org<\/a> more info, the pledge, and stuff you can hand to your favorite candidate to demand they stand up for <i>you<\/i> this time!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we told you about The Simpsons&#8217; upcoming episode wherein Homer, attempting to vote for Barack Obama on a touch-screen voting machine, has a few problems in the process. Here&#8217;s the very funny, were it not so very unfunny, clip from the upcoming show&#8230; [NOTE: The above video is no longer embeddable. Watch it [&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":[3,122,6,38,39],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dieboldpremier","category-election-2008","category-election-irregularities","category-hart-intercivic","category-sequoia-voting-systems"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458","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=6458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6458"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}