---
title: "Data.gov Captchas Get Political"
date: 2009-12-20
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2009"
    url: "/tag/2009.md"
---

# Data.gov Captchas Get Political

![](https://web.archive.org/web/20100123054655im_/http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/Data.govlogo.jpg)Spotted this evening on the [U.S. government’s public data web site](https://web.archive.org/web/20100123054655/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/datagov_finally_launches_looks_nice_but_short_on_d.php), [Data.gov](https://web.archive.org/web/20100123054655/http://data.gov/). A Republican programmer at captcha provider [reCAPTCHA](https://web.archive.org/web/20100123054655/http://recaptcha.net/) having some fun?

Hat-tip ReadWriteWeb’s Marketing manager [Elyssa Pallai](https://web.archive.org/web/20100123054655/http://twitter.com/boulderservices), who stumbled upon this humor gem today.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/datagov_captchas_get_political.php))*