{"id":46206,"date":"2014-11-02T22:51:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T05:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/02\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-election-edition.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T08:53:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T15:53:49","slug":"this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-election-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/02\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-election-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"This is why we can&#039;t have nice things (Election Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of reasons to be concerned about electronic voting machines, and a lot of security and transparency issues to suggest consider getting rid of them.<\/p>\n<p>But, honestly, the worst, most <i>stoopid<\/i> reason to do so is because it costs money to maintain them &#8230; and states don&#39;t want to spend the money and Congress (coughHouseGOPcough) won&#39;t allocate any because the states should have to do it.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, <i>really?<\/i> We keep calling ourselves the richest country on Earth and We&#39;re Number One and all that jazz &#8212; and when the voting machines wear out we&#39;re simply not going to replace them because someone might have to <i>spend some money?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t buy the argument that the US has already become a banana republic, but when we get there, this will be a great piece of evidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/cybersecurity\/222470-states-ditch-electronic-voting-machines'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/LaF_nScB14l6lnHZSYT3dH5RkzG3RtBAtq5y_aUOCPXErI_UaKrM63N6lq7L83pJUUHBIKigr0GvgVjfdyQQuK206ggrhSYJDXPk4ZEL3C7E6O99J-Xt=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/cybersecurity\/222470-states-ditch-electronic-voting-machines'>States ditch electronic voting machines<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nNearly 70 percent of voters will be casting paper ballots this year.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/e9QgAd6kePY'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of reasons to be concerned about electronic voting machines, and a lot of security and transparency issues to suggest consider getting rid of them. But, honestly, the worst, most stoopid reason to do so is because it costs money to maintain them &#8230; and states don&#39;t want to spend the money &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/02\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-election-edition.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is why we can&#039;t have nice things (Election Edition)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,353,20,376,347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2014","category-hi-tech","category-taxing-spending","category-voting-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4323,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/24\/click_vote.html","url_meta":{"origin":46206,"position":0},"title":"Click-vote","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Sep-03 3:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"After the Florida 2000 debacle, everybody swore up and down that all those crappy old manual voting machines were just too unreliable, too unusable, too confusing, and too prone to...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hi-Tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7035,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/09\/election_reform.html","url_meta":{"origin":46206,"position":1},"title":"Election reform","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Nov-04 3:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The NY Times weighs in editorially on election reform goals. 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