{"id":8168,"date":"2010-11-01T14:46:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T21:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8168"},"modified":"2010-11-01T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T21:46:03","slug":"my-op-ed-at-aol-news-cast-your-ballot-against-electronic-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8168","title":{"rendered":"My Op-Ed at AOL News: &#8216;Cast Your Ballot Against Electronic Voting&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/elections\/article\/opinion-cast-your-ballot-against-electronic-voting\/19698017\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/TheBRADBLOG_AOLNews.png\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Late last week, <i>AOL News<\/i> asked me to contribute an op-ed for their Election Eve coverage. That op-ed, which they&#8217;ve headlined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/elections\/article\/opinion-cast-your-ballot-against-electronic-voting\/19698017\">&#8220;Cast Your Ballot Against Electronic Voting&#8221;, is now posted here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The upshot of its argument: If Republicans are set to take over the U.S. House, as predicted, and if they&#8217;ve suddenly found religion in regard to the dangers of electronic voting, as they seem to be asserting <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8158\">in North Carolina<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8152\">in Nevada<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8141\">in Texas<\/a>, then it&#8217;ll soon be <i>their<\/i> turn to take legislative action to once and for all ban the horrific, anti-democratic (small &#8220;d&#8221;), 100% unverifiable Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting systems plaguing our nation before they are again used to pervert results of the 2012 Presidential Election &#8212; just as they have every year since they&#8217;ve been introduced into our electoral system (by a majority Republican Congress, by the way, in 2002.)<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/elections\/article\/opinion-cast-your-ballot-against-electronic-voting\/19698017\">check it out<\/a> and leave some nice (or not so nice) comments there, as you see fit. Lot&#8217;s of disinformed bumpkins seem to currently be weighing in. Please free to straighten them out. Politely.<\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Other pieces I&#8217;ve contributed elsewhere of late, in advance of tomorrow&#8217;s election:<br \/>\n&bull; For <i>Salon<\/i>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2272627\/pagenum\/all\/\">&#8220;The Faith-Based Vote&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n&bull; For <i>Truthout<\/i>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/hacking-harry-reid-or-sharrons-angle64548\">&#8220;Hacking Harry Reid (or, Sharron&#8217;s Angle)&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><!--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. 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That op-ed, which they&#8217;ve headlined &#8220;Cast Your Ballot Against Electronic Voting&#8221;, is now posted here&#8230; The upshot of its argument: If Republicans are set to take over the U.S. House, as predicted, and if they&#8217;ve suddenly found religion in [&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":[89,420,400,106,6,28,356,43,300,47,166,198,73,376],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","category-election-2010","category-election-2012","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-nevada","category-north-carolina","category-republicans","category-texas","category-touch-screen-vote-hopping","category-us-house","category-voting-system-certification","category-voting-system-standards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8168","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=8168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8168"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}