{"id":9719,"date":"2012-11-10T16:59:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T00:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9719"},"modified":"2012-11-10T16:59:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T00:59:15","slug":"itsy-bitsy-election-integrity-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9719","title":{"rendered":"Itsy-Bitsy Election Integrity Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ESS_OptechIII-P_Eagle_Spider.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Although covering stories of <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9697\">long lines and chaos<\/a> at polls and <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/faulty-outdated-voting-machines-contributed-voter-lines-frustration\/story?id=17666985#.UJwB5IV-CHl\">malfunctions and breakdowns<\/a> of electronic e-voting systems and tabulators, has been rather routine at <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> over the past decade, this one is a bit unusual.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/metrodesk\/2012\/11\/08\/spider-spins-web-crashes-voting-machine-rehoboth\/WqLvZWiGpM3IdPkpwqZeAK\/story.html\">According to Kathleen Conti<\/a>, Town Clerk of Reheboth, MA &#8212; a town of some 12,000 located about 50 miles south of Boston &#8212; a spider&#8217;s web &#8220;blocked a sensor&#8221; on an electronic op-scan tabulator (the town uses ES&#038;S&#8217; Optech III-P Eagle) preventing the machine from reading paper ballots on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-legged election integrity advocate, who forced the town&#8217;s election staff to hand count some 867 paper ballots, is reportedly still at large.<\/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. 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>Although covering stories of long lines and chaos at polls and malfunctions and breakdowns of electronic e-voting systems and tabulators, has been rather routine at The BRAD BLOG over the past decade, this one is a bit unusual. According to Kathleen Conti, Town Clerk of Reheboth, MA &#8212; a town of some 12,000 located about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[400,6,5,125],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2012","category-election-irregularities","category-ess","category-massachusetts","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9719"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}