{"id":5645,"date":"2008-02-03T21:39:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T05:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2008-07-28T17:41:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T00:41:22","slug":"cbs-news-features-the-shameless-rep-rush-holt-continuing-his-shameless-campaign-in-support-of-touch-screen-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=5645","title":{"rendered":"CBS Evening News Features the Shameless Rep. Rush Holt, Continuing His Shameless Campaign in Support of Touch-Screen Voting…"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) continues misleading America about his two different election reforms bills. On Saturday night’s CBS Evening News<\/em> (video here<\/i><\/a>), he says, in regard to the upcoming Super Tuesday Election: “There will be states around the country where the election results will be in question, and there will be no way to resolve the question.”<\/p>\n

What he fails to mention is that, should either of his own two<\/em> federal Election Reform bills be passed into law as currently written, there will still<\/i> be states around the country where the election results will be in question, and there will still<\/i> be no way to resolve the question, because he still<\/i> refuses to include a ban on touch-screen voting machines in either of his two bills.<\/p>\n

Incredibly, even his newly introduced “Emergency” bill (which we wrote about back here<\/a>) would give money for paper ballots only<\/i> to jurisdictions that don’t already use unverifiable touch-screen (DRE) voting systems with so-called “paper trails”…<\/p>\n

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As with his previous failed effort, HR811 (which we helped his office write before it was introduced, and which we’ve covered in great detail here<\/a>), the touch-screen DREs would be allowed to stay in place in the new bill as well, as long as they have that worthless, and unverifiable “paper trail”.<\/p>\n

Such DRE “paper trails”, in contrast to true, hand-marked paper ballots<\/i> have been shown in study after study to be easily hackable, and ultimately offer no more confidence that an election was recorded accurately, than a DRE without<\/i> such a “paper trail”.<\/p>\n

Rush Holt knows that, of course, (we’ve told him as much directly ourselves and he is, literally, a rocket scientist) but he apparently doesn’t care. <\/p>\n

It’s not the first time Holt has mislead about this issue. In fact, he’s previously out and out lied about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We take no joy in saying it, but Rush Holt, the “leader” among the Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on the issue of Election Reform, is absolutely shameless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) continues misleading America about his two different election reforms bills. On Saturday night’s CBS Evening News (video here), he says, in regard to the upcoming Super Tuesday Election: “There will be states around the country where the election results will be in question, and there will be no way to resolve […]<\/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":[379],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}