{"id":8102,"date":"2010-10-01T06:35:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8102"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:42:30","slug":"cnn-declares-brad-blog-squeakiest-wheel-on-subject-of-voting-so-how-about-some-grease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8102","title":{"rendered":"CNN Declares BRAD BLOG ‘Squeakiest Wheel on Subject of Voting’ – So How About Some Grease?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN’s Sr. National Editor Dave Schechter had this to say about The BRAD BLOG<\/a> on their “Election Center” page yesterday, in regard to our coverage of election integrity [emphasis added<\/em>]…<\/p>\n

One of the squeakiest wheels on the subject of voting is Brad Friedman, of “The Brad Blog,”<\/strong> who is not impressed<\/a> with the security of high-tech voting machines. “Use of any touch-screen voting machine is the equivalent of a 100% faith-based election. No votes cast during an election — none — can be verified as having been accurately recorded on such systems. Ever.”<\/p>\n

Needless to say, the companies that manufacture voting machines have more faith in their product than Friedman and other critics, seeing them as secure, more capable of accurately recording a voter’s intentions, and more accessible to the disabled and those who don’t speak English.<\/p><\/div>\n

And also, “needless to say”, no matter what the voting machine manufacturers have to say — and no matter whether their systems are secure (they’re not) or accurate — there remains no way for us, we, the people, to actually know that<\/i>, particularly on 100% unverifiable DRE (Direct Recording Electronic, usually touch-screen) voting systems, since it remains impossible for anybody, including the companies, to produce a single piece of evidence to prove that even one vote, ever cast on any of them during an election, for any candidate or initiative on the ballot, has ever<\/i> been recorded as per the voter’s intent.<\/p>\n

Our thanks to CNN’s Schechter for the kind notice, and we hope our squeaky wheels bring some much-needed grease to our ridiculously perilous and undemocratic system of concealed vote counting in this nation.<\/p>\n

I’ll also take this opportunity to ask for some grease from you folks<\/i>. We haven’t posted a plea for contributions in many, many<\/i> months — yet, boy howdy, do we need it! Please<\/i> help us refresh the completely empty<\/i> coffers — since I really hate to ask at all, frankly, particularly since I’ve got so much else to do in this election season — with an online donation via credit card or PayPal<\/b><\/a>!<\/p>\n

Alternately, snail mail donations are also much appreciated, as sent to: Brad Friedman, 7095 Hollywood Blvd., #594, Los Angeles, CA 90028<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Finally, most appreciated of all<\/b>, are monthly subscriptions of any amount you like.<\/i> Please see the light-blue box halfway down our right sidebar on any page, where you can specify any amount you can afford, to sign-up in about 60 seconds to become a monthly sustaining supporter!<\/p>\n

Thanks in advance guys! And now back to your regularly scheduled wheel squeaking…<\/p>\n

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CORRECTION: I had originally misspelled Dave Schechter’s name in the above article. A fine thanks for his kind words, eh? \ud83d\ude42 Anyway, now corrected with my apologies for the error.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN’s Sr. National Editor Dave Schechter had this to say about The BRAD BLOG on their “Election Center” page yesterday, in regard to our coverage of election integrity [emphasis added]… One of the squeakiest wheels on the subject of voting is Brad Friedman, of “The Brad Blog,” who is not impressed with the security of […]<\/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":[26,19,28],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brad-blog","category-cnn","category-election-reform"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102","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=8102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8102"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}