{"id":8030,"date":"2010-08-31T14:17:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T21:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8030"},"modified":"2010-09-06T14:49:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T21:49:05","slug":"democracy-or-farce-courtesy-of-the-onion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=8030","title":{"rendered":"Democracy or farce?  Courtesy of the Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This November, after all that we&#8217;ve learned over so many years, twenty percent of the nation will still engage in blind-faith voting on DREs that are 100% unverifiable, with or without a so-called &#8220;Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail&#8221; (VVPAT).  Elsewhere, the vast majority of Americans will feed paper ballots into easily hacked optical scan systems and then quietly accept the results that the machines spew out without demanding a hand count of the paper ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The corporate media will dutifully publish the reported &#8220;results&#8221; without so much as mentioning that in most jurisdictions not a single ballot will have been counted by a human being.<\/p>\n<p>With Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen off enjoying some much needed R &#038; R, I thought some levity was in order, courtesy of this hilarious, if somewhat dated, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/video\/diebold-accidentally-leaks-results-of-2008-electio,14214\/\">Onion video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe frameborder=\"no\" width=\"420\" height=\"270\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/video_embed\/?id=14214\"><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/video\/diebold-accidentally-leaks-results-of-2008-electio,14214\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early\">Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE FROM BRAD 9\/6\/10:<\/b> Now that I&#8217;m <i>almost<\/i> back on the grid, a quick addition here to note that we <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5741\">ran this same video back on February 25, 2008<\/a>. That it still has resonance and meaning today &#8212; after all that we&#8217;ve learned about the 100% unverifiable nature of such systems &#8212; says a great deal, since we&#8217;re still foolishly using these things all across the country, as Ernie pointed out. Also related from <i>The Onion<\/i>, as we ran in November of 2008, there&#8217;s this: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6621\">&#8220;Sequoia Touch-Screen Elected 44th President&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning This November, after all that we&#8217;ve learned over so many years, twenty percent of the nation will still engage in blind-faith voting on DREs that are 100% unverifiable, with or without a so-called &#8220;Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail&#8221; (VVPAT). Elsewhere, the vast majority of Americans will feed paper ballots [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2010"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}