{"id":24,"date":"2003-07-10T11:28:17","date_gmt":"2003-07-10T15:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=24"},"modified":"2003-07-10T11:28:17","modified_gmt":"2003-07-10T15:28:17","slug":"rigging-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Rigging the Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post I missed about the New Zealand reporter who discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/archives\/003649.html#003649\"><i>the Diebold &#8220;black box&#8221; voting machines being pushed in so many jurisdictions are easy to hack and change vote totals.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been collecting links on this issue for some time now.  I&#8217;m always alarmed by the reaction of conservatives to the information, as if rigging a vote is nothing unusual.  Why worry?<\/p>\n<p>I never was one to excuse such offenses especially when committed by a party or candidate I have supported.  I hold the people I vote for to a much higher standard.<\/p>\n<p>If this new system is fine-tuned, the people who support these deceptive practices could forever be the &#8216;majority&#8217; because the &#8216;machine&#8217; says it&#8217;s so.<\/p>\n<p>So I worry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post I missed about the New Zealand reporter who discovered that the Diebold &#8220;black box&#8221; voting machines being pushed in so many jurisdictions are easy to hack and change vote totals. I&#8217;ve been collecting links on this issue for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=24\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}