GOP registration fraud, more screwy voting machines

Update 11:44 AM 10/20/2008.

Oh. MY. GOD. Fox News is a mess. They book Brad Friedman and ask him about the housing and financial crisis? Watch this. Brad is unflappable, and still manages to get his expertise on the air and PWN the Fox twit at the same.


October 18, 2008
More W.Va. voters say machines are switching votes
In six cases, Democratic votes flipped to GOP
WINFIELD, W.Va. -- Three Putnam County voters say electronic voting machines changed their votes from Democrats to Republicans when they cast early ballots last week. This is the second West Virginia county where voters have reported this problem. Last week, three voters in Jackson County told The Charleston Gazette their electronic vote for "Barack Obama" kept flipping to "John McCain".
By Paul J. Nyden
Staff writer

Blogged by John Gideon on 10/19/2008 2:04PM
BREAKING: CA GOP Vote Registration Contractor Arrested for Registration Fraud, Perjury
Now Updated Several Times at Bottom of Article...
This just in as Brad is headed over to the FOX News studios. Yesterday the Los Angeles Times reported on the Republican voter registration outfit who had allegedly been illegally changing thousands of registrations from Democratic to Republican.
Last night the head of that GOP backed group, Mark Anthony Jacoby of Young Political Majors (YPM), was arrested by the California State Election Fraud Taskforce and Oxnard, CA Police.

And why is the Supreme Court busy during the election antics?

Court will decide identity theft case

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether people picked up on immigration violations also can face charges of identity theft if they use Social Security and other identification numbers that happen to belong to others.

Federal prosecutors have increasingly been bringing the more serious identity theft charges against undocumented immigrants, including many who were arrested in raids on meatpacking plants.

Federal appeals courts have split over whether the defendant must know that the phony ID numbers belong to a real person and, on Monday, the court said it will resolve the question.
2008-10-20 14:07:46 GMT

This for the local RepugnanThuglicans

When voter registration closes at the end of today, analysts will see how San Diego’s political stripes have changed. Problems reported in voter registrations by the group Acorn will have little impact on the overall trend: the Republican lead over Democratic registered voters is narrowing. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.

1.4 million people were registered to vote in San Diego as of last month .
37 percent are Republicans, 36 percent Democrats. (that leaves 27 percent, a bunch of independents)
Thad Kousser, Professor of Political Science at UCSD, says about 18 hundred invalid voter registrations submitted by the group “Acorn” will have a minor effect on the overall increase in registered democrats since the beginning of the year.

Kausser: We thought there were something on the order of 75,000 newly registered democrats in San Diego and this is about 1,800 fewer than we thought so maybe the democratic voter registration leap wont be quite as large as we thought, but it wont affect election outcomes is the important thing.


Kousser says invalid voter registrations don’t translate into fraudulent votes. He says fictitious people signed up to vote usually don’t show up at the polls, because they don’t exist.

Alison St John, KPBS News