{"id":7520,"date":"2009-11-14T13:32:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T21:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7520"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:37:57","slug":"brad-on-digital-village-muppets-glenn-beck-rape-murder-tea-baggery-e-voting-open-source-internet-voting-diebold-hand-counting-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7520","title":{"rendered":"Brad on ‘Digital Village’: Muppets, Glenn Beck Rape & Murder, Tea Baggery, E-Voting, Open Source, Internet Voting, Diebold, Hand-Counting, More…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was in-studio and on-the-air this morning with a couple of my favorite cats, Rick and Doran of Digital Village<\/i><\/a>, featuring the most maddeningly-catchy theme song in all of radio, on KPFK<\/a> (L.A. and Santa Barbara’s Pacifica station).<\/p>\n

We talked e-voting, including “open source” secret vote-counting machines (the latest ill-considered fad sweeping the nation), Internet voting schemes (the other latest ill-considered fad) and transparently overseeable hand-counting (“Democracy’s Gold Standard”<\/a>), DieboldReturnOurMoney.com<\/a>, the Rise of the Tea Bags<\/i><\/a>, Muppets, Glenn Beck (about whom questions are being asked as to whether he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990<\/a>), and much more…<\/p>\n

Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below [appx. 28 mins<\/i>]…
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