{"id":31101,"date":"2012-11-01T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T17:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/computers-and-elections-a-history.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:47:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:47:36","slug":"computers-and-elections-a-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/computers-and-elections-a-history.html","title":{"rendered":"Computers and Elections: A History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice look back on the use of computers to predict elections on Election Night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112374836634096795698'>Guy Kawasaki<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(Thu02) The story of the first time a computer was used to predict an election result.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2012\/10\/31\/163951263\/the-night-a-computer-predicted-the-next-president\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2012\/10\/31\/163951263\/the-night-a-computer-predicted-the-next-president<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More on Politics: <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.alltop.com\/\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/politics.alltop.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>(Shared using <a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23DoShare\">#DoShare<\/a>)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/112374836634096795698\/albums\/5805873024110297121\/5805873024387074562'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-1wbNNiUYybs\/UJKawT2dSgI\/AAAAAAADY7c\/jhiaeU41WvE\/s0-d\/Univac.png' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/V4UjyH2L4VU' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice look back on the use of computers to predict elections on Election Night. Reshared post from +Guy Kawasaki (Thu02) The story of the first time a computer was used to predict an election result. http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2012\/10\/31\/163951263\/the-night-a-computer-predicted-the-next-president More on Politics: http:\/\/politics.alltop.com\/ (Shared using #DoShare) Google+: View post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,12,20,108,9],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-31101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate","category-hi-tech","category-history","category-politics-law","tag-doshare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6490,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/26\/insane.html","url_meta":{"origin":31101,"position":0},"title":"Insane?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Aug-04 11:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"BoingBoing reports on an \"Insane plan to let military to vote using insecure email.\" The plan affects military personnel from Missouri. 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