{"id":913,"date":"2004-11-07T20:18:17","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T00:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=913"},"modified":"2007-09-14T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T20:59:19","slug":"50000-votes-lost-in-dem-indiana-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"50,000 Votes LOST in Dem Indiana County!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it only in heavy Democratic counties that votes just <i>seem<\/i> to disappear? But in Republican counties, votes just <i>seem<\/i> to get added? This time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michigancityin.com\/articles\/2004\/11\/04\/news\/news02.txt\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;something zapped it&#8221;<\/a> in a heavily Democratic country in Indiana:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;Maybe there was a power surge,&#8221; LaPorte County Clerk Lynne Spevak said. &#8220;Something zapped it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At about 7 p.m. Tuesday, it was noticed that the first two or three printouts from individual precinct reports all listed an identical number of voters. Each precinct was listed as having 300 registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>That means the total number of voters for the county would be 22,200, although there are actually more than 79,000 registered voters.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nSpevak said workers at the clerk&#8217;s office thought a computer correction could be done once they received a software patch from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfopedia.org\/wiki.phtml?title=ES%26S\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mlink\"><b>Election Systems and Software<\/b><\/a>, the Chicago company that provided the tabulation software. However, the patch did not work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thought we could get a copy of it e-mailed file to us and start all over, but once the program was downloaded from Chicago, it still didn&#8217;t work right,&#8221; Spevak said.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dots connecting yet for ya? If not, read on.  Otherwise, I&#8217;m working on trying to organize some &#8220;action items&#8221; now. Hope to have news on that in the next day or two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it only in heavy Democratic counties that votes just seem to disappear? But in Republican counties, votes just seem to get added? This time, &#8220;something zapped it&#8221; in a heavily Democratic country in Indiana: &#8220;Maybe there was a power surge,&#8221; LaPorte County Clerk Lynne Spevak said. &#8220;Something zapped it.&#8221; At about 7 p.m. [&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":[8,6,5,44],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2004","category-election-irregularities","category-ess","category-indiana"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}