California man arrested for mail threats to celebs
Sun Nov 12, 2006 10:32pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A California man suspected of mailing threatening letters containing a suspicious white powder to celebrities and U.S. politicians has been arrested and could face federal charges on Monday, the FBI said.
Investigators identified Chad Castagana, 39, of Woodland Hills, California, as the person suspected of sending more than a dozen threatening letters to media outlets and the homes of public figures in various cities, the FBI said in a statement on Sunday evening.
Anthrax hoaxer may be Free Republic poster
Larisa Alexandrovna and Brian BeutlerPublished: Monday November 13, 2006
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The man arrested on Saturday for sending more than a dozen envelopes containing "fake anthrax" to anti-war celebrities, journalists, and politicians may have ties to the conservative supersite Free Republic, RAW STORY has found.
Chad Castagana, a 39 year old Californian named as the FBI's prime suspect in the case, is due in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles today, where procecutors are expected to file criminal complaint against him for sending threatening letters through the U.S. mail. Castagana has an extensive online history, often writing about science fiction and conservative politics, and many bloggers are convinced that he is also a contributor at the conservative activist Free Republic website under the name Marc Costanzo.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Not surprised by this at all
This four part story will break your heart. Mine's already broken. I've seen veterans on the street my whole life. I was born here. I was raised here. A Vietnam vet helped me when when I needed help, and he had his own demons to deal with. Up close and personal, I've seen what war can do to people.
Mind Games
Conservatively, one out of every three homeless males who is sleeping in a doorway, alley, or box in our cities and rural communities has put on a uniform and served our country ... now they need America to remember them.
Mind Games
Conservatively, one out of every three homeless males who is sleeping in a doorway, alley, or box in our cities and rural communities has put on a uniform and served our country ... now they need America to remember them.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Election '06: Great Outcome, Flawed Votes
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. Posted November 10, 2006.
Don't confuse a good political outcome with a bad electoral process.Election integrity activists face a quandary this week. After an Election Day where new voting machines failed from coast to coast, and GOP-favoring voter suppression tactics unfolded in state after state, this largely liberal-leaning community knows all too well that the machinery used to slam the breaks on the dreadful Bush administration is deeply flawed, that Tuesday night's vote counts shouldn't fully be trusted.
But will they say so? Will they stand with, gag, the apparently dethroned Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and demand the electronic machines in 27 counties be impounded and examined for vote-count problems? That could reveal, once and for all, why new electronic machines need to be junked. Or will political victory throw a wet blanket on a fired-up election integrity movement?
(click on title link, read the whole thing)
and then there's this from Billmon (supply and demand on K Street)
US vetoes UN draft condemning Israel
In response to draft resolution condemning Israel for Beit Hanoun explosion, American ambassador to UN Bolton says: Draft biased against Israel, doesn't address issue of Palestinian terror. Four other countries abstain from voting
Yitzhak Benhorin, Washington
Published:
11.11.06, 20:54
Do I think this will change in January? We'll see, but color me cynical, K?
Don't confuse a good political outcome with a bad electoral process.Election integrity activists face a quandary this week. After an Election Day where new voting machines failed from coast to coast, and GOP-favoring voter suppression tactics unfolded in state after state, this largely liberal-leaning community knows all too well that the machinery used to slam the breaks on the dreadful Bush administration is deeply flawed, that Tuesday night's vote counts shouldn't fully be trusted.
But will they say so? Will they stand with, gag, the apparently dethroned Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and demand the electronic machines in 27 counties be impounded and examined for vote-count problems? That could reveal, once and for all, why new electronic machines need to be junked. Or will political victory throw a wet blanket on a fired-up election integrity movement?
(click on title link, read the whole thing)
and then there's this from Billmon (supply and demand on K Street)
US vetoes UN draft condemning Israel
In response to draft resolution condemning Israel for Beit Hanoun explosion, American ambassador to UN Bolton says: Draft biased against Israel, doesn't address issue of Palestinian terror. Four other countries abstain from voting
Yitzhak Benhorin, Washington
Published:
11.11.06, 20:54
Do I think this will change in January? We'll see, but color me cynical, K?
Friday, November 10, 2006
Ladies and Gentlemen
How about let's wake up now, eh?
We start by reading this book, so we're not shocked regarding our own dubious (not exactly pushed at us in school) history:
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Learn a little history
Learn a little more
and more
Maybe grab a DVD from the Library.
and start making some lifestyle changes
We start by reading this book, so we're not shocked regarding our own dubious (not exactly pushed at us in school) history:
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Learn a little history
Learn a little more
and more
Maybe grab a DVD from the Library.
and start making some lifestyle changes
Veterans and their families deserve justice and honesty
Veterans and their families deserve justice and honesty
Posted on Fri, Nov. 10, 2006
By Mike Honda
This Veterans Day, as we reflect upon the ideals and freedoms that define our country, we honor those who fought to protect them since the founding of the republic; and we unite in celebrating the patriotism and valor of soldiers, sailors, aviators and marines who have served, or are serving, in Iraq, Afghanistan and across the globe in the struggle against terrorism.
This has nothing to do with Veterans Day, but I found these two articles interesting:
...Google video suit could signal YouTube trouble ahead
Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006
ELECTIONS-US:
E-Voting Squeaks By With Passing Grade
Mark Weisenmiller
TAMPA, Florida, Nov 9 (IPS) - An estimated 80 to 90 percent of the nearly 79 million U.S. voters either cast their mid-term elections ballot by computer on Tuesday or had their vote tabulated that way, and as experts had predicted, there were various glitches with electronic voting machines throughout the country.
And finally, America, it's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work.
History doesn't stop:
China anticipates bumpy road with U.S.
Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi climbed the Democratic Party ranks in Congress savaging China for its human rights abuses...
Euro gains as China plans to dump U.S. dollar reserves
News Story
Ottawa Business Journal StaffFri, Nov 10, 2006 11:00 AM EST
BOSTON WORLD OIL CONFERENCE
Oil Futures
Posted on Fri, Nov. 10, 2006
By Mike Honda
This Veterans Day, as we reflect upon the ideals and freedoms that define our country, we honor those who fought to protect them since the founding of the republic; and we unite in celebrating the patriotism and valor of soldiers, sailors, aviators and marines who have served, or are serving, in Iraq, Afghanistan and across the globe in the struggle against terrorism.
This has nothing to do with Veterans Day, but I found these two articles interesting:
...Google video suit could signal YouTube trouble ahead
Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006
ELECTIONS-US:
E-Voting Squeaks By With Passing Grade
Mark Weisenmiller
TAMPA, Florida, Nov 9 (IPS) - An estimated 80 to 90 percent of the nearly 79 million U.S. voters either cast their mid-term elections ballot by computer on Tuesday or had their vote tabulated that way, and as experts had predicted, there were various glitches with electronic voting machines throughout the country.
And finally, America, it's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work.
History doesn't stop:
China anticipates bumpy road with U.S.
Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi climbed the Democratic Party ranks in Congress savaging China for its human rights abuses...
Euro gains as China plans to dump U.S. dollar reserves
News Story
Ottawa Business Journal StaffFri, Nov 10, 2006 11:00 AM EST
BOSTON WORLD OIL CONFERENCE
Oil Futures
Thursday, November 09, 2006
woo hoo
In two days they've managed to count 20,000 paper ballots right here in podunk (San Diego) California.
(There are still 180,000 left to count as of 7:28 PM 11/9/2006).
current registration pdf
past turnout rates pdf
Is it me, or is there something funky about the hundred-fifty thousand number jump up in registered voters for the 2004 presidential, and an immediate bump downward back to more normal numbers for the county?
Eh, maybe not.
(There are still 180,000 left to count as of 7:28 PM 11/9/2006).
current registration pdf
past turnout rates pdf
Is it me, or is there something funky about the hundred-fifty thousand number jump up in registered voters for the 2004 presidential, and an immediate bump downward back to more normal numbers for the county?
Eh, maybe not.
Rumsfeld to Gates
Battterrrrrr uuuuuuppp
Yeesh, wtf is it with these ol leftover Iran/Contra dudes?
then there's this: Robert Gates Promoted and Financed Osama Bin Laden
Update: not hurting local defense contractors, looks like.Press Release Source: SAIC
Wednesday November 8, 5:00 pm ET
SAIC Acquires AETC Incorporated
Yeesh, wtf is it with these ol leftover Iran/Contra dudes?
Voting Machine Fiasco:
SAIC, VoteHere and Diebold
by Lynn Landes
Dissident Voice
August 19, 2003
then there's this: Robert Gates Promoted and Financed Osama Bin Laden
Update: not hurting local defense contractors, looks like.Press Release Source: SAIC
Wednesday November 8, 5:00 pm ET
SAIC Acquires AETC Incorporated
Oh, yeah, guys?
Sorry, they want the Sandinista dude in Nicaragua
Never let me go: can Ortega reclaim Nicaragua?
The reinvention of Daniel Ortega, may be enough for the majority of poor Nicaraguans to give the Sandinista hero-villain of the 1980s another chance, reports Ivan Briscoe in Managua.
Ivan Briscoe
2 - 11 - 2006
Hmm, think Ortega is interested in this?
Nicaragua Canal Present Day
As of 2004, the Nicaraguan government is again proposing a canal through the country, large enough to handle post-Panamax ships of up to 250,000 tons, as compared to the 65,000 tons or so that the Panama Canal can manage. The estimated cost of this scheme may be as much as 25 billion dollars; this is 25 times Nicaragua's annual budget.
Not buying it
I don't believe that 87 and 89 went down.
Posted on Thu, Nov. 09, 2006
Successful framing led No on 87 campaign to election victory
By Rick Jurgens
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
Prop 89 We've Opened a Door for Reform That Will Never Be Closed
Nov 9,2006
By Rose Ann Demoro
Executive Director
California Nurses Association
Do you know anybody that voted against the oil companies actually having to pay taxes on the oil they suck out of the ground in California?
Well, maybe Debra Bowen can clean up the voting machine debacle.
And here's some interesting information on Robert Gates, Rummy's replacement:
Permission to excerpt or reprint granted, with link tohttp://www.blackboxvoting.org
Rumsfield replacement (Robert Gates) was director of voting company
by Bev Harris
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfield will resign, reportedly to be replaced by former CIA director Robert Gates. Gates was on the board of directors of VoteHere, a strange little company that was the biggest elections industry lobbyist for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). VoteHere spent more money than ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia combined to help ram HAVA through. And HAVA, of course, was a bill sponsored by by convicted Abramoff pal Bob Ney and K-street lobbyist buddy Steny Hoyer. HAVA put electronic voting on steroids. You can find copies of the VoteHere lobbying forms here:http://sopr.senate.gov/cgi-win/m_opr_viewer.exe?DoFn=0 I can't get them to save to pdf, perhaps you can. Enter search terms in both "registrant" and "client" fields and put in terms"Rhoads" "Livingston" and "Votehere" (one at a time.). Then look at the gravy train while it was in the process of derailing American democracy. I first became acquainted with VoteHere when I met a source, Dan Spillane, who is the wonderful guy that identified the Diebold source code modules for me after I found the Diebold files. Heis the person who introduced me, and subsequently everyone else,to the odd role of The Election Center and R. Doug Lewis in the elections industry. Spillane also filled me in on The Livingston Group, VoteHere lobbyists, run by Bob Livingston -- the fellow that Hustler publisher Larry Flynt outed during the Bill Clinton blow job days. Larry Flynt offered a million dollars to anyone who could locate a Republican congressman committing adultery, and out popped peccadilloes by Livingston. Livingston couldn't live that one down, so he resigned his postas House Speaker-Elect and became a lobbyist -- but that's not all! He also launched a group called "Center for Democracy"which was going to "monitor elections." This group also featured several good old boys from the tobacco industry and some mining companies. Former VoteHere test engineer Dan Spillane was looking into all this because he had been fired after he questioned the certification process on a touch-screen system in which he had identified 250 flaws. It was way back in November 2002 that Spillane told me, "The voting machine industry is a house of cards. And the certification and testing process is the bottom card in the house of cards." BUT DON'T RUN OUT OF THE ROOM TO TAKE A SHOWER YET. There's more. VoteHere was a company shilling cryptographic solutions and filled with NSA types (another director was Admiral Bill Owens,another crony of Rummy, Perle and Wolfowitz). For some reason this company claims it was unable to prevent itself from being hacked. In this alleged hack, VoteHere claims that someone stole their source code. Said source code was offered to me in October 2003, an obvious attempt at entrapment which I refused. Nevertheless, VoteHere claimed to the media that its master security experts had supposedly "tracked" the hacker and had identified the hacker as an activist in the election reform community. For some reason, it was decided that I should be investigated in connection with this "hack" of VoteHere -- nevermind that I can't remember how to change the password on my own laptop. Therefore I was interviewed by the Secret Service several times about this. Curiously, they never seemed to ask any questions about VoteHere, only my role in finding the Diebold files and publishing the Diebold memos. This nonsense eventually culminated in a gag order and a letter from the U.S. Attorney to appear in front of a federal grand jury with information on all the visitors to the Black BoxVoting Web site. (As if they couldn't get that in less dramatic ways in post-Patriot Act America). Attorney Lowell Finley (now with http://www.VoterAction.org ) went to bat for me on this. A reporter named George Howland from the Seattle Weekly also got wind of it. When it hit the press, and with Lowell Finley's help, their harassment of me stopped. VoteHere never sold any voting machines that I can find, but apparently did set up some deals to embed its cryptography into some voting systems. We found memos in the Diebold trash about VoteHere's crypto-crap, and Maryland Director of Elections Linda Lamone shows up in VoteHere-related letters. Sequoia Voting Systems signed an agreement with VoteHere, but its not clear to me whether they ever did anything about it. Robert Gates stepped away from VoteHere shortly before he showed up in Chapter 8 of my book, Black Box Voting, in a short bit about the VoteHere company history. You can read that here:http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf I don't know about you, but I'd rather use a paper, pencil, and count by hand at the polling place than have former CIA director Robert Gates fooling around with my vote. But that's just me. -- Bev Harris Founder, Black Box Voting
P.S. Since the HBO special, I have plenty of moral support, but even after the Secret Service interviews and all the rest of the nonsense my husband and I have had to put up with, there are others who have had it rougher. I'd like you to take a moment to visit this Web site -- not affililiated with Black Box Voting -- to meet one of the heroic citizens in this movement who has faced the most brutal retaliation of all:Stephen Heller. If you saw the HBO film "Hacking Democracy" you may remember a scene where I am chastising Diebold for lying about correcting problems with its product. I refer to "ReleaseNotes." Those notes came from a source. Stephen Heller is being threatened with up to five years in prison for allegedly leaking me those documents. Kevin Shelley then decertified Diebold, and recommended criminal prosecution of Diebold. Diebold was never prosecuted, but Stephen Heller is being prosecuted RIGHT NOW. I hope you will donate to his defense. If not for citizens like him, where would your vote be now?
To contribute to Stephen Heller's defense fund: http://www.hellerlegaldefensefund.com/ * * * * *Black Box Voting is a nonprofit, nonpartisan 501c(3) elections watchdog group supported entirely by citizen donations. We refuse funds from any vendor or vested interest.
To support Black Box Voting: click tohttp://www.blackboxvoting.org/donate.html or send to:Black Box Voting330 SW 43rd St Suite KPMB 547 Renton WA 98055
* * * * * Citizens Tool Kit: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit.html
Posted on Thu, Nov. 09, 2006
Successful framing led No on 87 campaign to election victory
By Rick Jurgens
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
Prop 89 We've Opened a Door for Reform That Will Never Be Closed
Nov 9,2006
By Rose Ann Demoro
Executive Director
California Nurses Association
Do you know anybody that voted against the oil companies actually having to pay taxes on the oil they suck out of the ground in California?
Well, maybe Debra Bowen can clean up the voting machine debacle.
And here's some interesting information on Robert Gates, Rummy's replacement:
Permission to excerpt or reprint granted, with link tohttp://www.blackboxvoting.org
Rumsfield replacement (Robert Gates) was director of voting company
by Bev Harris
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfield will resign, reportedly to be replaced by former CIA director Robert Gates. Gates was on the board of directors of VoteHere, a strange little company that was the biggest elections industry lobbyist for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). VoteHere spent more money than ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia combined to help ram HAVA through. And HAVA, of course, was a bill sponsored by by convicted Abramoff pal Bob Ney and K-street lobbyist buddy Steny Hoyer. HAVA put electronic voting on steroids. You can find copies of the VoteHere lobbying forms here:http://sopr.senate.gov/cgi-win/m_opr_viewer.exe?DoFn=0 I can't get them to save to pdf, perhaps you can. Enter search terms in both "registrant" and "client" fields and put in terms"Rhoads" "Livingston" and "Votehere" (one at a time.). Then look at the gravy train while it was in the process of derailing American democracy. I first became acquainted with VoteHere when I met a source, Dan Spillane, who is the wonderful guy that identified the Diebold source code modules for me after I found the Diebold files. Heis the person who introduced me, and subsequently everyone else,to the odd role of The Election Center and R. Doug Lewis in the elections industry. Spillane also filled me in on The Livingston Group, VoteHere lobbyists, run by Bob Livingston -- the fellow that Hustler publisher Larry Flynt outed during the Bill Clinton blow job days. Larry Flynt offered a million dollars to anyone who could locate a Republican congressman committing adultery, and out popped peccadilloes by Livingston. Livingston couldn't live that one down, so he resigned his postas House Speaker-Elect and became a lobbyist -- but that's not all! He also launched a group called "Center for Democracy"which was going to "monitor elections." This group also featured several good old boys from the tobacco industry and some mining companies. Former VoteHere test engineer Dan Spillane was looking into all this because he had been fired after he questioned the certification process on a touch-screen system in which he had identified 250 flaws. It was way back in November 2002 that Spillane told me, "The voting machine industry is a house of cards. And the certification and testing process is the bottom card in the house of cards." BUT DON'T RUN OUT OF THE ROOM TO TAKE A SHOWER YET. There's more. VoteHere was a company shilling cryptographic solutions and filled with NSA types (another director was Admiral Bill Owens,another crony of Rummy, Perle and Wolfowitz). For some reason this company claims it was unable to prevent itself from being hacked. In this alleged hack, VoteHere claims that someone stole their source code. Said source code was offered to me in October 2003, an obvious attempt at entrapment which I refused. Nevertheless, VoteHere claimed to the media that its master security experts had supposedly "tracked" the hacker and had identified the hacker as an activist in the election reform community. For some reason, it was decided that I should be investigated in connection with this "hack" of VoteHere -- nevermind that I can't remember how to change the password on my own laptop. Therefore I was interviewed by the Secret Service several times about this. Curiously, they never seemed to ask any questions about VoteHere, only my role in finding the Diebold files and publishing the Diebold memos. This nonsense eventually culminated in a gag order and a letter from the U.S. Attorney to appear in front of a federal grand jury with information on all the visitors to the Black BoxVoting Web site. (As if they couldn't get that in less dramatic ways in post-Patriot Act America). Attorney Lowell Finley (now with http://www.VoterAction.org ) went to bat for me on this. A reporter named George Howland from the Seattle Weekly also got wind of it. When it hit the press, and with Lowell Finley's help, their harassment of me stopped. VoteHere never sold any voting machines that I can find, but apparently did set up some deals to embed its cryptography into some voting systems. We found memos in the Diebold trash about VoteHere's crypto-crap, and Maryland Director of Elections Linda Lamone shows up in VoteHere-related letters. Sequoia Voting Systems signed an agreement with VoteHere, but its not clear to me whether they ever did anything about it. Robert Gates stepped away from VoteHere shortly before he showed up in Chapter 8 of my book, Black Box Voting, in a short bit about the VoteHere company history. You can read that here:http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf I don't know about you, but I'd rather use a paper, pencil, and count by hand at the polling place than have former CIA director Robert Gates fooling around with my vote. But that's just me. -- Bev Harris Founder, Black Box Voting
P.S. Since the HBO special, I have plenty of moral support, but even after the Secret Service interviews and all the rest of the nonsense my husband and I have had to put up with, there are others who have had it rougher. I'd like you to take a moment to visit this Web site -- not affililiated with Black Box Voting -- to meet one of the heroic citizens in this movement who has faced the most brutal retaliation of all:Stephen Heller. If you saw the HBO film "Hacking Democracy" you may remember a scene where I am chastising Diebold for lying about correcting problems with its product. I refer to "ReleaseNotes." Those notes came from a source. Stephen Heller is being threatened with up to five years in prison for allegedly leaking me those documents. Kevin Shelley then decertified Diebold, and recommended criminal prosecution of Diebold. Diebold was never prosecuted, but Stephen Heller is being prosecuted RIGHT NOW. I hope you will donate to his defense. If not for citizens like him, where would your vote be now?
To contribute to Stephen Heller's defense fund: http://www.hellerlegaldefensefund.com/ * * * * *Black Box Voting is a nonprofit, nonpartisan 501c(3) elections watchdog group supported entirely by citizen donations. We refuse funds from any vendor or vested interest.
To support Black Box Voting: click tohttp://www.blackboxvoting.org/donate.html or send to:Black Box Voting330 SW 43rd St Suite KPMB 547 Renton WA 98055
* * * * * Citizens Tool Kit: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit.html
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Rummy's gone, who's next?
Battterrrrrr uuuuuuppp
Yeesh, wtf is it with these ol leftover Iran/Contra dudes?
Wednesday November 8, 5:00 pm ET
SAIC Acquires AETC Incorporated
Yeesh, wtf is it with these ol leftover Iran/Contra dudes?
Voting Machine Fiasco:
SAIC, VoteHere and Diebold
by Lynn Landes
Dissident Voice
August 19, 2003
Oh, yeah, guys?
Sorry, they want the Sandinista dude in Nicaragua
Update: not hurting local defense contractors, looks like.
Wednesday November 8, 5:00 pm ET
SAIC Acquires AETC Incorporated
The most important race in California
SECRETARY OF STATE: Bowen, McPherson almost even with two-thirds of precincts counted
Jim Doyle, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Debra Bowen, a Democratic state senator from Southern California, was locked in a tight battle with appointed GOP incumbent Bruce McPherson Tuesday in a hard-fought race for California secretary of state.
Why is BradBlog swamped?
Video the vote has some interesting videos to watch.
As of six am this morning, 200, 000 votes not counted in San Diego.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Ok then
The Republicans made a big fucking mess.
Jim has some ideas that the Dems need to pull their heads out of their asses and look at:
Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler
And this, will they do something to reign in the Israelis?
Israel 'apology' as Palestine mourns dead
Wednesday 08 November 2006, 19:36 Makka Time, 16:36 GMT
And even Faux Snooze admits that the people want the war in Iraq overwith.
Rumsfeld stepping down
(Washington-AP) November 8, 2006 - President Bush says Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is stepping down and former CIA Director Robert Gates will take over at the Pentagon and in prosecuting the war in Iraq.
Hey Rumsfeld, did you finally figure out that fighting a war is not like selling pharmaceuticals?
Jim has some ideas that the Dems need to pull their heads out of their asses and look at:
Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler
And this, will they do something to reign in the Israelis?
Israel 'apology' as Palestine mourns dead
Wednesday 08 November 2006, 19:36 Makka Time, 16:36 GMT
And even Faux Snooze admits that the people want the war in Iraq overwith.
Rumsfeld stepping down
(Washington-AP) November 8, 2006 - President Bush says Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is stepping down and former CIA Director Robert Gates will take over at the Pentagon and in prosecuting the war in Iraq.
Hey Rumsfeld, did you finally figure out that fighting a war is not like selling pharmaceuticals?
We're fucked...maybe
Everything that was heavily corporate funded in California looks like it's passing.
We've been taken over by the Nazis.
Well, maybe not, they won't even count the paper ballots and absentee ballots till Thursday here in San Diego.
Update: 11:10 PM 11/7/2006
Some stuff is looking better. The Dems have taken the House and they just may take the Senate.
Unfortunately Bilbray is babbling about Sonny Bono being an inspiration. Huh? The 50th has too much M-I-C money at stake to let it go to someone who won't play that shit. Color me cynical.
Reports all over the place that the Dems have taken the House.
listening to Air America here
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/07/thinkfast-election-day-edition/
listening to Air America here
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/07/thinkfast-election-day-edition/
Nov 7, 2006 8:21 pm US/Eastern
GOP Officials Call To Impound Voting Machines
Now KDKA has learned that the Republican State Committee has sent a letter to the Secretary of State asking that voting machines in 27 counties that have been accused of being malfunctioning – be impounded tonight
Problems Lead 8 States to Extend Some Voting Hours
By CHRISTINE HAUSER and JOHN HOLUSHA
Published: November 7, 2006
bomb threat in Wisconsin...Indiana, confusion over where to vote as well as voting equipment problems led to extensions of at least 30 minutes, in three counties. Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ohio, Georgia and North Carolina also extended some polling hours, according to a summary compiled by The Associated Press., In Illinois, 223 precincts in Kane County were kept open an extra hour and a half because of late openings at polling places and machine problems....In Maryland where voters received literature that suggested, incorrectly, that the Republican Senate candidate, Michael Steele, who is African American, had been endorsed by Kweisi Mfume, the former head of the NAACP....In a crucial Senate race in Virginia, some machines displayed, on their summary page, only the first name and middle initial of James H. Webb, the Democrat seeking to unseat Senator George Allen in an extremely close race. Mr. Webb’s full name appeared on the actual voting screen. The problem had been reported earlier but not fixed.
...As in Indianapolis, inadequate training appeared likely to have contributed to troubles in some precincts. One machine used in many precincts, the AccuVote TSX, is delivered with a setup guide that includes 42 steps. Problems had been expected....Democratic Party officials in Colorado asked a judge to extend voting hours after lines grew to as many as 300 in Denver, The Associated Press said.
GOP Officials Call To Impound Voting Machines
Now KDKA has learned that the Republican State Committee has sent a letter to the Secretary of State asking that voting machines in 27 counties that have been accused of being malfunctioning – be impounded tonight
Problems Lead 8 States to Extend Some Voting Hours
By CHRISTINE HAUSER and JOHN HOLUSHA
Published: November 7, 2006
bomb threat in Wisconsin...Indiana, confusion over where to vote as well as voting equipment problems led to extensions of at least 30 minutes, in three counties. Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ohio, Georgia and North Carolina also extended some polling hours, according to a summary compiled by The Associated Press., In Illinois, 223 precincts in Kane County were kept open an extra hour and a half because of late openings at polling places and machine problems....In Maryland where voters received literature that suggested, incorrectly, that the Republican Senate candidate, Michael Steele, who is African American, had been endorsed by Kweisi Mfume, the former head of the NAACP....In a crucial Senate race in Virginia, some machines displayed, on their summary page, only the first name and middle initial of James H. Webb, the Democrat seeking to unseat Senator George Allen in an extremely close race. Mr. Webb’s full name appeared on the actual voting screen. The problem had been reported earlier but not fixed.
...As in Indianapolis, inadequate training appeared likely to have contributed to troubles in some precincts. One machine used in many precincts, the AccuVote TSX, is delivered with a setup guide that includes 42 steps. Problems had been expected....Democratic Party officials in Colorado asked a judge to extend voting hours after lines grew to as many as 300 in Denver, The Associated Press said.
Federal Poll Watchers Fan Out Across San Diego
POSTED: 8:40 am PST November 7, 2006
UPDATED: 1:06 pm PST November 7, 2006
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SAN DIEGO -- Federal poll watchers are fanning out to San Diego and across the county to safeguard against fraud or discrimination in election districts marked by tight races, large numbers of minority voters and faulty ballot machines.
NBCSandiego.com's Live Election Coverage Begins at 8 p.m.
Poll watchers will be in 22 states today. Monitors and observers are being assigned to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, which has been dogged by problems with computerized touch-screen voting machines. They will be in Bergen County, New Jersey, a must-win prize for both candidates in the state's Senate race.
In all, the Justice Department is sending an estimated 850 poll watchers to 69 cities and counties. Officials said today that it was an unprecedented number, and twice as many during the 2002 congressional midterm elections.
San Diego is one of eight California counties that will have federal ballot-box watchers. The others are Alameda, Orange, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Ventura.
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POSTED: 8:40 am PST November 7, 2006
UPDATED: 1:06 pm PST November 7, 2006
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SAN DIEGO -- Federal poll watchers are fanning out to San Diego and across the county to safeguard against fraud or discrimination in election districts marked by tight races, large numbers of minority voters and faulty ballot machines.
NBCSandiego.com's Live Election Coverage Begins at 8 p.m.
Poll watchers will be in 22 states today. Monitors and observers are being assigned to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, which has been dogged by problems with computerized touch-screen voting machines. They will be in Bergen County, New Jersey, a must-win prize for both candidates in the state's Senate race.
In all, the Justice Department is sending an estimated 850 poll watchers to 69 cities and counties. Officials said today that it was an unprecedented number, and twice as many during the 2002 congressional midterm elections.
San Diego is one of eight California counties that will have federal ballot-box watchers. The others are Alameda, Orange, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Ventura.
Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
I vote, therefore I bitch
Yeah, I voted. On a touchscreen after I surrendered the absentee ballot. I heard that Haas isn't going to count the absentee ballots till Thursday. The pollworkers weren't quite sure what to do with me. It's a good thing I read the book, isn't it?AUDIO: Laura Ingraham Tells Listeners To Jam Voter Protection Hotline
As FireDogLake has been reporting, right-wing radio host Laura Ingraham today urged her listeners to obstruct efforts to protect voting rights by jamming a free voter protection hotline.
After playing a recording of DNC Chairman Howard Dean promoting the line to voters, Ingraham suggested her listeners call en masse:
Tell me if you think I’m crazy. This is what I’m thinking. I think we all need to call 1 888 DEM VOTE all at the same time.
listen to her here
Laura, I don't use the "C word" very often, but you really deserve it right now.
Like I said
They run this county like a rednecked podunk backwater. And they want us to vote on judges? When we can't find out how judges decide cases? Whether they lean towards business interests, or worker's interests? (I was born and raised here, it's never been union friendly)
Bring a camera to the polls.
Bring a camera to the polls.
Gawd, it's early
Watched while the hateful machines were set up.
The kid's a student pollworker.
Should I see if she did her homework?
I vote absentee, I've never been to the polls.
I can't believe I didn't throw those fuckers off the Coronado Bridge.
click here to listen to
local coverage of the election
Lotta crap going on here.
The kid's a student pollworker.
Should I see if she did her homework?
I vote absentee, I've never been to the polls.
I can't believe I didn't throw those fuckers off the Coronado Bridge.
Or try to find a hacker.
Heh.click here to listen to
local coverage of the election
Lotta crap going on here.
Monday, November 06, 2006
Rage against the machine
Diebold struggles to bounce back from the controversy surrounding its voting machines.
By Barney Gimbel, Fortune writer-reporter
November 3 2006: 9:46 AM EST
How Brazil Might be The Model For E-Voting Reform
November 6, 2006 By Michael Hickins
Oh fer fuck's sake, what that fuck has gotten better for poor people in Brazil since the Diebold machines were used in 2000?
Anything?
that crickets I hear?
Diebold struggles to bounce back from the controversy surrounding its voting machines.
By Barney Gimbel, Fortune writer-reporter
November 3 2006: 9:46 AM EST
How Brazil Might be The Model For E-Voting Reform
November 6, 2006 By Michael Hickins
Oh fer fuck's sake, what that fuck has gotten better for poor people in Brazil since the Diebold machines were used in 2000?
Anything?
that crickets I hear?
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Saturday, November 04, 2006
election rookies (corporate pros)
Midterm Elections Offer Rookie Anchors New Battleground
By BROOKS BARNES
November 1, 2006; Page B1
Add another hotly contested race to the list for Tuesday's elections: Brian, Charlie or Katie?
While NBC's Brian Williams, ABC's Charles Gibson and CBS's Katie Couric have all settled into their new roles as evening news anchors, Tuesday's midterm elections mark their inaugural efforts at presiding over prime-time election results. The stakes are high. Live coverage of national elections is a defining event for news organizations, and viewers, advertisers and cable and broadcast rivals will be watching closely to see how each handles the hot seat.
Ratcheting up pressure are the special demands of this Election Day. Midterm elections are typically sedate affairs that are more important locally than nationally. But this year the results could lead to a seismic shift in political power. With control of both the House and Senate up for grabs, the television audience is expected to be particularly large, with the networks competing with Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC for viewers.
The rookies -- particularly Mr. Gibson and Ms. Couric because Mr. Williams has anchored lots of MSNBC election coverage -- have a series of especially difficult races to call. More than a dozen important ones remain too close to predict, raising the specter of recounts. There could be problems in some states with new electronic ballots. Meanwhile, the networks' exit polls, crucial to their system of calling races, are likely to be fuzzy as more people make use of absentee ballots.
The new anchors have strong memories of their predecessors' botched calls in the 2000 presidential election, and they say in interviews that they are determined to get the calls right this time. "If we have learned anything from the last few outings, it is to call no race before its time," Mr. Williams says. "Getting it wrong is forever. Getting it four minutes late is forgivable."
In a change from the 2002 midterm elections, the networks promise they won't project a winner in any state until after all of that state's polls are scheduled to close. In a first, each network has also agreed to send two representatives to a "quarantine room" at an undisclosed location in New York City to comb through exit-poll data. The goal: to prevent early exit-poll data -- which is often unreliable -- from leaking to the Internet, and to monitor the results in a vacuum, without access to a bank of TV screens tuned to various pundits predicting outcomes.
All three anchors have top billing, but each has a veteran co-pilot. Mr. Williams will be joined by his predecessor, Tom Brokaw. Mr. Gibson will have George Stephanopoulos, the anchor of ABC's "This Week" Sunday news program and a former senior aide to President Clinton. Ms. Couric's predecessor, Bob Schieffer, will appear with her.
ABC, CBS and NBC have spent recent weeks conducting intense preparations for a relatively small amount of on-air coverage. Each network plans an hour-long live special at 10 p.m. EST, with another live broadcast on the West Coast at 10 p.m. PST, the same amount of time the networks dedicated to the last midterms.
The three anchors will be judged not only on ratings but also on content and their ability to perform on the spot. One particularly tricky moment for rookie anchors to master: bringing the newscast back from a commercial or a local break. Called a "reset" in TV parlance, the anchor must sum up the news so far in a pithy sentence.
In their normal slots, Mr. Williams holds a commanding lead. For the week ended Oct. 27, Mr. Williams attracted an average of 8.9 million viewers to "Nightly News" on General Electric Co.'s NBC, according to Nielsen Media Research. At "World News" on Walt Disney Co.'s ABC, Mr. Gibson averaged 8.4 million. Ms. Couric averaged 7.3 million on "Evening News" on CBS Corp.'s CBS.
But unlike the audience for presidential coverage, when the networks remain on the air all evening, viewership for the midterm coverage is typically affected by the strength of the show immediately before. By that measure, ABC has the strongest lead-in with "Dancing With the Stars."
"I personally hope a lot of 'Dancing' fans love politics," says Mr. Stephanopoulos, although they apparently didn't earlier this year, when MSNBC pundit Tucker Carlson was the first "star" voted off the show.
All the new network anchors hope to put individual stamps on their coverage. Ms. Couric, for instance, says her broadcast will strive to be "more accessible and meaningful for regular people." She has been pushing producers to interview average voters over stuffy experts. "Clearly we need to communicate some really critical information, but I think we can have some fun too," she says.
Mr. Williams has something quite different in mind. "I would like to harness some of the shop talk that goes on during our commercial breaks" between political junkies such as Mr. Brokaw and Tim Russert, NBC's senior political analyst. "That's actually really good television," Mr. Williams says. He also plans to pay close attention to potential problems with computerized voting machines. NBC and its sister cable network MSNBC are partnering with an organization that operates a toll-free hotline for voters to report irregularities.
Over at ABC, Mr. Gibson will have the most network air time. While Ms. Couric will go off the air and Mr. Williams will move to MSNBC, Mr. Gibson will continue reporting on ABC's "Nightline."
New this time around at every network is a plethora of news offerings on the Internet and cellphones. CBS plans to update its Web site every 90 seconds, while ABC says it will provide updates every minute. ABC will also allow college and high school students to file Internet "perspectives" via video cellphone, Web cam or camcorder. NBC plans extensive additional material on MSNBC.com, along with original newscasts for mobile phones.
"Online was something that was just beginning the last time around," says Jon Banner, executive producer of "World News." "This time we are truly flooding the zone."
I call bullshit
News Networks Install "Quarantine Room" For Election Night: No One Gets Out With Exit Poll Info...
Washington Post Howard Kurtz Posted November 1, 2006 11:58 PM
READ MORE: Drudge Report
Not new bullshit
Not anywhere new bullshit
"And the public records, I can’t emphasize enough how important they are. In San Diego in the June 6 election, the event log, the audit log that was obtained by a citizen named Bruce Sims, shows the voting machine dialing out to Diebold at 9:31 p.m. during the count on election night. These are the kinds of things that show up.
AMY GOODMAN: Wait, explain that.
BEV HARRIS: Yes. It’s difficult to explain.
AMY GOODMAN: What do you mean, the machine dialing out?
BEV HARRIS: The machine dialed out and made a remote connection to Diebold at 9:31 p.m. during the count. And when you say, “Explain it,” I don’t know of any legitimate explanation.
AMY GOODMAN: So, what happened in that case?
BEV HARRIS: Interestingly enough, as we find citizens out there gathering these, public officials are in many cases — and San Diego is one — not following the law, not following the regulations. The first thing we have to do is find out if they even are following them — they aren’t there — and then we need to take action to enforce the law and get them taken out of office. It’s very difficult, because there’s very little will to enforce and there are very few consequences for election officials who fail to follow the law."
Special message to local "reporters"
F*#k you, you corporate tools.
Air America's ABC blacklist: The Real Story
Air America’s ABC Blacklist: The Real Story
Published on Friday, November 3, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
by Josh Silver and Robert W. McChesney
...So what is the problem? While “liberal” Air America clearly favors big D Democrats, unlike virtually all other programming on commercial radio and television, it gives airtime to reports that are critical of corporations and the powerful politicians they keep in Washington
This is the heart of the problem: Air America commits a crime called journalism. Almost none of the so-called conservative radio shows or networks do any semblance of actual reporting. They merely pontificate -- repeating talking points that seem to be emailed straight from Karl Rove's laptop.
Air America does its share of pontificating as well, and we leave it to others to compare its integrity to that of Limbaugh and Hannity. But we can say that Air America journalism occasionally focuses on corporate malfeasance. It examines closely the deeply corrupt relationship between corporate power and government officials...read the whole thing
Need I remind you we're number 53 on the freedom of the press index?
Published on Friday, November 3, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
by Josh Silver and Robert W. McChesney
...So what is the problem? While “liberal” Air America clearly favors big D Democrats, unlike virtually all other programming on commercial radio and television, it gives airtime to reports that are critical of corporations and the powerful politicians they keep in Washington
This is the heart of the problem: Air America commits a crime called journalism. Almost none of the so-called conservative radio shows or networks do any semblance of actual reporting. They merely pontificate -- repeating talking points that seem to be emailed straight from Karl Rove's laptop.
Air America does its share of pontificating as well, and we leave it to others to compare its integrity to that of Limbaugh and Hannity. But we can say that Air America journalism occasionally focuses on corporate malfeasance. It examines closely the deeply corrupt relationship between corporate power and government officials...read the whole thing
Need I remind you we're number 53 on the freedom of the press index?
Reading now.
There's a wonderful quote before the table of contents:
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
-----THOMAS JEFFERSON
Update: 7:38 PM 11/4/2006 75 pages in and man, there is so much shit missing from this book it's not even funny. (Click here for wikipedia page on book)
Friday, November 03, 2006
They knew and hid it
BradBlog:
EXCLUSIVE: LEAKED 2003 REPORT ON MARYLAND'S DIEBOLD VOTING SYSTEMS REVEALS SERIOUS SECURITY CONCERNS WERE WITHHELD FROM ELECTION BOARD, GOVERNOR, PUBLIC!
In September, 2003 Linda Lamone, the Administrator of Maryland's State Board of Elections and President of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) hands over a critical study on the security of the Diebold Election Systems machines that count all of Maryland's votes....
...The original SAIC report, coming in at nearly 200 pages, was reduced, redacted and altered such that the only version the public — or even state officials including the Governor and the full State Board of Elections — would ever be allowed to see was a wholly sanitized 38-page version of the report.
Until now.
For the first time, we've been able to review the complete, much sought-after, unredacted version of the SAIC report which has been kept at bay from Maryland state officials…as well as the computer science and security community…as well as the election integrity community and public at large since it was originally completed in 2003.
Read the whole thing:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3719#more-3719
And the award for the scariest comment?
You want a nightmare scenario then how about this.
Diebold and the Repubs know that throwing the elections to Republicans will almost certainly result in a call for their collective heads, especially since democrats are favored by huge margins in so many races. So how do you hold onto congressional seats you are certain to lose?
YOU THROW THE VOTE GROSSLY IN FAVOR OF DEMOCRATS so that it's undeniable that the machines have been hacked. This has several advantages for Diebold and the Repubs.
–It results in a freeze on the election results that allows all the current memebers of congress to retain there seat until the issue is worked out. This could take months or years which is plenty of time for them to allow Bush to get us in more trouble.
–It creates doubt that Diebold is anything other than a Republican vote making system and makes Diebold look more like a victim than the fascist asses they really are.
–To simpleminded, stupid and naive Americans (of which there are tens of millions)It makes the democratic party look like shit.
Am I paranoid? You bet I am. After living with Bush and Rove for six years I wouldn't put ANYTHING by these guys because they will do ANYTHING to win.
–
Halloween Horror in San Diego not overwith yet:
Photocopies mailed; registrar says all votes will be counted
By Leslie Wolf Branscomb
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
November 3, 2006
If you got your absentee ballot in the mail and it looks suspiciously like a photocopy of a regular ballot, that's because, well, it is...
What IS is with this county?
Three million people live here and its run like some podunk, rednecked little backwater.
Just askin.
Update: I get the feeling that because of the registration (party affiliation) numbers that the 50th has already been written off.
I looked at the registration numbers.
Not so fast. Have a look see:
dem 105,548
rep 156,629
aip 7,834
grn 2,358
lib 2,235
nlp 639
p& f 592
misc 1,760
decl 78,915 (decline to state)
Qualified Political parties
from April to September there were 2,644 new registered voters in the 50th. I don't know what party.
EXCLUSIVE: LEAKED 2003 REPORT ON MARYLAND'S DIEBOLD VOTING SYSTEMS REVEALS SERIOUS SECURITY CONCERNS WERE WITHHELD FROM ELECTION BOARD, GOVERNOR, PUBLIC!
In September, 2003 Linda Lamone, the Administrator of Maryland's State Board of Elections and President of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) hands over a critical study on the security of the Diebold Election Systems machines that count all of Maryland's votes....
...The original SAIC report, coming in at nearly 200 pages, was reduced, redacted and altered such that the only version the public — or even state officials including the Governor and the full State Board of Elections — would ever be allowed to see was a wholly sanitized 38-page version of the report.
Until now.
For the first time, we've been able to review the complete, much sought-after, unredacted version of the SAIC report which has been kept at bay from Maryland state officials…as well as the computer science and security community…as well as the election integrity community and public at large since it was originally completed in 2003.
Read the whole thing:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3719#more-3719
And the award for the scariest comment?
You want a nightmare scenario then how about this.
Diebold and the Repubs know that throwing the elections to Republicans will almost certainly result in a call for their collective heads, especially since democrats are favored by huge margins in so many races. So how do you hold onto congressional seats you are certain to lose?
YOU THROW THE VOTE GROSSLY IN FAVOR OF DEMOCRATS so that it's undeniable that the machines have been hacked. This has several advantages for Diebold and the Repubs.
–It results in a freeze on the election results that allows all the current memebers of congress to retain there seat until the issue is worked out. This could take months or years which is plenty of time for them to allow Bush to get us in more trouble.
–It creates doubt that Diebold is anything other than a Republican vote making system and makes Diebold look more like a victim than the fascist asses they really are.
–To simpleminded, stupid and naive Americans (of which there are tens of millions)It makes the democratic party look like shit.
Am I paranoid? You bet I am. After living with Bush and Rove for six years I wouldn't put ANYTHING by these guys because they will do ANYTHING to win.
–
Halloween Horror in San Diego not overwith yet:
Photocopies mailed; registrar says all votes will be counted
By Leslie Wolf Branscomb
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
November 3, 2006
If you got your absentee ballot in the mail and it looks suspiciously like a photocopy of a regular ballot, that's because, well, it is...
What IS is with this county?
Three million people live here and its run like some podunk, rednecked little backwater.
Just askin.
Update: I get the feeling that because of the registration (party affiliation) numbers that the 50th has already been written off.
I looked at the registration numbers.
Not so fast. Have a look see:
dem 105,548
rep 156,629
aip 7,834
grn 2,358
lib 2,235
nlp 639
p& f 592
misc 1,760
decl 78,915 (decline to state)
Qualified Political parties
from April to September there were 2,644 new registered voters in the 50th. I don't know what party.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Git the hypocrites!!!
A couple of days ago I started with a bit of snark. I was asking Log Cabin Republicans if they knew who they were in bed with? (Happy Halloween to Log Cabin Republicans )
Well, well, well, that was basically an attempt to jar Log Cabin Republicans.
Silly me, yeeesh, they know who they are in bed with, and they are outing them.
Woooooooo hoooooooo, git the hypocrites!!!!
Jon just interviewed Mike Jones
The Sinner's Guide to the Evangelical Right is all over it.
Well, well, well, that was basically an attempt to jar Log Cabin Republicans.
Silly me, yeeesh, they know who they are in bed with, and they are outing them.
Woooooooo hoooooooo, git the hypocrites!!!!
Jon just interviewed Mike Jones
The Sinner's Guide to the Evangelical Right is all over it.
Hucky Ducky, get ready folks
Don't forget---tonight (9:00 PM an HBO documentary --- Hacking Democracy ---
These are articles that came in ONE email this morning.
Sometimes Google alerts are depressing.
That said, there are too many of us paying attention, the fuckers can't steal it, K?
Take a camera to prove you YOU voted for, never mind what other people are doing.
Video the vote
Voting technology roundup: MidwestComputerworld - Framingham,MA,USA... a state where at least some precincts are using electronic voting systems without a voter verified paper audit trail. Direct-recording electronic system with ...
Every vote counts, rightCNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA... Three electronic voting systems were analyzed. One is called Direct Recording Electronic (DRE), which directly records a voters selections in each contest ...See all stories on this topic
Will Your Vote Count?MIT Technology Review - Cambridge,MA,USA... well established. Most concerns center on a newer touch-screen method, called direct-recording electronic voting (DRE). All told ...
Man of the YearNew York Sun - New York,NY,USA... that a software fluke in some voting machines in ... After foul-ups with electronic machines in the ... boards are opting for direct-recording electronic devices that ...See all stories on this topic
"UConn Inspects Diebold AccuVote OS"Brad Blog - USA... they did of the Diebold AccuVote Optical Scan voting system the ... the recent Princeton Report accomplished on the Diebold TS Direct Recording Electronic machines ...
E-voting state by state: What you need to knowComputerworld - Framingham,MA,USA... Legal challenges to paperless DRE (direct-recording electronic) voting technologies are proliferating across the country, and as computer scientists ...
These are articles that came in ONE email this morning.
Sometimes Google alerts are depressing.
That said, there are too many of us paying attention, the fuckers can't steal it, K?
Take a camera to prove you YOU voted for, never mind what other people are doing.
Video the vote
Voting technology roundup: MidwestComputerworld - Framingham,MA,USA... a state where at least some precincts are using electronic voting systems without a voter verified paper audit trail. Direct-recording electronic system with ...
Every vote counts, rightCNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA... Three electronic voting systems were analyzed. One is called Direct Recording Electronic (DRE), which directly records a voters selections in each contest ...See all stories on this topic
Will Your Vote Count?MIT Technology Review - Cambridge,MA,USA... well established. Most concerns center on a newer touch-screen method, called direct-recording electronic voting (DRE). All told ...
Man of the YearNew York Sun - New York,NY,USA... that a software fluke in some voting machines in ... After foul-ups with electronic machines in the ... boards are opting for direct-recording electronic devices that ...See all stories on this topic
"UConn Inspects Diebold AccuVote OS"Brad Blog - USA... they did of the Diebold AccuVote Optical Scan voting system the ... the recent Princeton Report accomplished on the Diebold TS Direct Recording Electronic machines ...
E-voting state by state: What you need to knowComputerworld - Framingham,MA,USA... Legal challenges to paperless DRE (direct-recording electronic) voting technologies are proliferating across the country, and as computer scientists ...
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
From Diebold, Inc.: Democracy Unbound
Diebold Fumbles Attempt to Stop HBO Airing of 'Hacking Democracy'!
tiny trailer for Hacking Democracy HBO Nov 2 9 pm. Tell me how it is, I don't have cable, I miss out on stuff like this, but I don't pay for more advertising and more crap.
tiny trailer for Hacking Democracy HBO Nov 2 9 pm. Tell me how it is, I don't have cable, I miss out on stuff like this, but I don't pay for more advertising and more crap.
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