{"id":6553,"date":"2008-10-23T20:55:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T03:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6553"},"modified":"2008-10-23T21:06:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T04:06:50","slug":"video-chocolate-news-destroys-touch-screen-voting-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6553","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: &#8216;Chocolate News&#8217; Destroys Touch-Screen Voting Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Said David Alan Grier at the end of Comedy Central&#8217;s <i>Chocolate News<\/i> this week, after being shown a touch-screen voting machine which tries to talk him out of voting for Barack Obama, tells him that he&#8217;s Muslim, and then registers the vote for John McCain anyway: &#8220;For all you Barack Obama supporters out there, if you see a machine like this, beat it like it stole something. Cause it almost did. Your vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not that we&#8217;d <i>ever<\/i> advocate the way Grier resolves the problem. (Though we admit it was <i>quite<\/i> satisfying to watch. Like pornography for election integrity geeks. <em>2 mins&#8230;<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><center><embed FlashVars='videoId=187952' src='http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/sitewide\/video_player\/view\/default\/swf.jhtml' quality='high' bgcolor='#cccccc' width='332' height='316' name='comedy_central_player' align='middle' allowScriptAccess='always' allownetworking='external' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer'><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> covers your electoral system, fiercely and independently, like no other media outlet in the nation. Please support our work with <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Donate\">a donation<\/a> to help us keep going.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Said David Alan Grier at the end of Comedy Central&#8217;s Chocolate News this week, after being shown a touch-screen voting machine which tries to talk him out of voting for Barack Obama, tells him that he&#8217;s Muslim, and then registers the vote for John McCain anyway: &#8220;For all you Barack Obama supporters out there, if [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,166],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy-central","category-touch-screen-vote-hopping"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553","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=6553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}