{"id":197,"date":"2014-10-22T13:34:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T13:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/?p=197"},"modified":"2014-10-22T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T13:34:32","slug":"nothing-to-see-here-move-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"nothing to see here.  move along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/10\/22\/calibration-error-changes-gop-votes-to-dem-in-illinois-county\/<\/p>\n<p>A voting machine in Illinois changed any vote for a Republican into a vote for a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan went to vote Monday at the Schaumburg Public Library.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mod-16\">\n<div class=\"mod-ad-4 ad-container\">\n<div id=\"tablet-300x250\" class=\"ad gpt\">\u00a0\u201cI tried to cast a vote for myself and instead it cast the vote for my opponent,\u201d Moynihan said. \u201cYou could imagine my surprise as the same thing happened with a number of races when I tried to vote for a Republican and the machine registered a vote for a Democrat.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad gpt\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad gpt\">He notified an election official at the polling place and was allowed to vote his choices on another machine.\u00a0 The machine in question was removed from service and inspected.\u00a0 The problem was blamed on a &#8220;calibration error.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad gpt\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad gpt\">Right.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad gpt\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad gpt\">In any election now,\u00a0just one machine per polling place doing this can be enough to make sure the Democrat is elected.\u00a0 If Democrat votes were being changed to Republican, you&#8217;d hear shrieks of voter fraud and the Black Panthers Party would be out in force.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad gpt\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad gpt\">Republicans are doormats;\u00a0too easy to turn the other cheek.\u00a0 Like Christie said, &#8220;It&#8217;s time to start offending people.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/10\/22\/calibration-error-changes-gop-votes-to-dem-in-illinois-county\/ A voting machine in Illinois changed any vote for a Republican into a vote for a Democrat. Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan went to vote Monday at the Schaumburg Public Library. \u00a0\u201cI tried to cast a vote for myself and instead it cast the vote for my opponent,\u201d Moynihan said. \u201cYou could imagine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}