Franken Coleman recount

Betcherass there there are some questions that still need to be answered.

Last night was a good night. I got to see my kid, & she spent the night. She's still clearing her stuff out of her room, a little bit at a time. I hadn't seen or heard from her in 2 weeks. That hadn't happened since she was 2 and it was really painful.

Cheney, Gonzales Indicted in Texas Prison Case

Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor.

This is the one time I wil link to FOX News when it isn't a joke. I'm sorry it isn't the Hague, but it's something.

Bwwwaaaa hah hahahahahahha

I guess the Saudis didn't invest enough in Somalia?

Hey, maybe they'll send over some birth control?

Bwaaa ha hahahhahahaha, I thought not.

Not that we don't have our own anti-birth control morons who don't understand that the country is broke, and seriously in debt.

The place is a train wreck

Loaded with militants.

And inside the US
Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008
Study puts a total on diabetes cost: $218 billion
By LINDA A. JOHNSON AP Business Writer

Nobody is going to move to restrict the use of corn syrup, which is is subsidized or, white flour bleach, both of which contribute to the development of diabetes. This looks like an interesting book to me.

Just look at the bailout bullshit. Business rules, even when it is destructive. In fact, sometimes when it is destructive, it's especially profitable.

Ahhhhhh.

Relaxing with new old music. The kid introduced me to Modest Mouse and some others for which I am grateful and the old man bores and irritates me with his high school soundtrack of Boston , REO , and worst of all Styx. I used to listen to country, but since I don't drink as much, I can't stand that caterwauly whining. I still love the blues, but I like my jazz predictable, and quiet. Not much on the horns dueling it out in improvisation. Don't demand my attention, I find that irritating and distracting and I have ADD.

This is my music. I've been hooked on it since I was 16.

Which clock could you live with?

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( if you are interested in any of the clocks you can click on the picture and find out more, or buy it online :)
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Why I don't watch Sunday morning TV

If it’s Sunday, it’s still conservative.»

The fires are having some grim consequences:

Coroner's office burns -- but workers keep investigating fire
1:39 PM, November 16, 2008

Man, this just takes the cake for stupid headlines:

Mexico drug wars spill across the border

If there wasn't a market for drugs in the US there wouldn't be any need for the US to finance both fucking sides of the war on drugs in Mexico.

Landslide

I got both of them. I like both of them.

Music and fun

I forgot what a pain in the ass it is to load 150 CDs into a computer. Now if I can only figure out how to not have to do this again. Most of what was important I managed to save before the demise of the XP computer. My brother managed to resurrect it, and he's considering putting linux on it. Vista sucks, really hard but the service plan I bought with this computer doeis not, so whatever.

My friend Annie always tries to cheer me up when I'm grousing.

She'll do it for you and your party too, if you're in LA:

Tonight's TV and Friday squirrel blogging

PBS NOW
7:30 PM

Bill Moyers Journal 8:00 PM

And what the fuck is this?

In Fla., Election Decided By Toss Of A Coin

And Badtux posted a MUST see post on how to deal with some supporters of Prop 8.

I heard about the white powder sent to the Mormons, and I don't think it was a good idea, even if it was non-toxic because it gives those assholes the martyr card in the media.

That said, I laughed when I heard it.

tagged by Dyre 42

The Rules:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.


Six random things about myself:


1) I know that people are stupid enough to destroy the earth

2)I discovered that I was a liberal while taking business classes.

3) I have some hope for my country now.

4) I think people who bring children into this world now are stupid, ignorant, or selfish, because the kids are going to suffer.

5) Greed makes me sick

6) I'm obsessed with the out of control world population.

Sorry, I'm not tagging anyone because I hate being tagged.

The whales lost in the Sooopreme court

I knew they would.

Which clock could you live with?

Here's the klinker, I live in an old shitty little apt (think NOT bright white) and the kitchen clock neds to serve the also the living/dining/family/den room. I never noticed how many times I refer to it till the old one died. I like number one, but the face is too small.

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My favorite old pictures and the passage of time

They're dog eared because they spent a couple of years banging around in a key chain. These are fifteen and seventeen years old. We used to be pretty darn cute, eh? She's still fabulous looking, me, not so much. getting old sucks.



I went shopping with a friend a few days ago. I'm not much of a shopper, but with major retailers going under, I couldn't resist. I'm still not used to not buying stuff for the kid, who is no longer a kid. I bought two sets of towels, not sure which one matched her shower curtain better.

I was looking for a wall clock. I think I got the last one thirteen or fourteen years ago. It never really looked good in this apartment, but I never cared. As soon as the kid moved out it started acting up and died. After three hours and 7 or 8 stores of clock shopping I was really frustrated so I went looking online.

I like this one, but of course, it's ridiculously expensive, it's a wall clock for over the dang kitchen sink,and $275 is around $250 more than I want to pay for a clock.

I like this one

and this one

These are fun, & I'll never lose the timer again .

and when I thought that this one was pretty interesting I knew it was time to quit looking for a while.

Great reading list

Unfortunately, I have been remiss in checking this site and missed it. There are only two books on the 2008 booklist that I have read, although they all look interesting.

Al Franken shouldn't have poo-pooed BradBlog

Really, Al, you shouldn't have, there's good information there.

Hat tip to Danny

This made me sad:

Burma 10 November 2008
Prison court sentences blogger to 20 years, poet to two years

I'm easily amused, I guess

And I love this stupid show.

Boll weevils near extinction in Mississippi

Yup, San Diego too.

It's a bummer

What to buy Dick Cheney for X-mas

Will I ever stop hating the greedy sonofabitch?

Nope.

This Week: "Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story" (90 minutes),
November 11th at 9pm on PBS (Check local listings)


San Diego: OK of water mandates expected; Council likely to approve upgrade to drought alert
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 9, 2008 at 6:58 am
From the San Diego Union Tribune:

Obama’s big win obscured ongoing voting problems

By Art Levine 11/8/08 12:41 AM

Barack Obama won, there were only isolated election glitches, and all’s right with the world.

That, at least, is one emerging mainstream media view about Election Day. As Associated Press declared, “After all that fuss, the system worked. There was no meltdown, no flurry of lawsuits, no statewide demands for a presidential recount.”

But just because there was no repeat of nightmare scenario like the 2000 Florida recount doesn’t mean that there weren’t systemic problems in the country’s diverse electoral systems.

In Minnesota, problem-plagued ballot scanners threaten an accurate recount in the contest between Sen. Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken, according to Minnesota Independent.

Digital photography allows for undetected key copies
Sat Nov 8, 2008 2:13PM EST

Breaking into a lock without being noticed no longer means having to actually have the key ahead of time in order to make a copy. Computer geniuses at UC San Diego have written a computer program that can copy a key based solely on a photograph of it...

...Voting machine company Diebold
got caught up in just such an embarassing scenario early last year when it put photos of the master keys used for its machine on its website.)...

And finally, MDD has a great post called

California Not Always So Liberal
by Natasha Chart, Sun Nov 09, 2008 at 12:38:26 PM EST

Friday squirrel blogging

A few wrinkles and a bit of mold didn't stop this guy from stuffing his face with champagne grapes.

Republican gun nuts are such paranoid morons:

Fears of a Dem crackdown lead to boom in gun sales
Print By DENA POTTER Dena Potter – 7 mins ago

Bush officials moving fast to cut environmental protections
By Renee Schoof McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - In the next few weeks, the Bush administration is expected to relax environmental-protection rules on power plants near national parks, uranium mining near the Grand Canyon and more mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachia.


The bigots made a legal mess: Calif. gay-marriage ban creates legal uncertainty By PAUL ELIAS Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Hundreds of protesters took to the streets Thursday over California's new ban on gay marriage, amid deepening political turmoil and legal confusion over who should have the right to wed.

Legal experts said it is unclear whether an attempt by gay-rights activists to overturn the prohibition has any chance of success, and whether the 18,000 same-sex marriages performed in California over the past four months are in any danger.

HUH?

I don't know how he found out that so far my county is way ahead for Obama? Thanks Iwanski, it shocked me, but it pleased me.

THESE RESULTS ARE UNOFFICIAL
Last updated on: 11-05-08 at: 06:38:49

There are approximately 220,000 Absentee / Provisional ballots still to be counted

PRESIDENT/VICE PRESIDENT

Precincts: 2328
Counted: 2328
Percentage: 100.0%

Vote for: 1
OBAMA/BIDEN
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53.83%

MCCAIN/PALIN
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44.51%

NADER/GONZALEZ
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0.70%

BARR/ROOT
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KEYES/DRAKE
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MCKINNEY/CLEMENTE
1936
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SOMETHING SMELLS VERY FISHY IN ALASKA

Blogged by Shannyn Moore on 11/6/2008 1:18PM Turnout Rate Reported as Lowest Ever in State, Down 11% From '04 Even With Both Palin and Obama on the Ballot
Hanging in the Balance in the Diebold State: Felon Ted Stevens' U.S. Senate Race, Corrupt Don Young's House Race & Much More...
Guest blogged by Shannyn Moore

The OTHER Election Night Story in Georgia: No Early Votes Included in Reported Results

11/5/2008 1:34:00 PM
As the nation watched election returns come in state by state, and national, state and regional television stations began to report the numbers, every major news outlet reported that Georgia had voted heavily for McCain -- all except for the Associated Press Atlanta office, the news organization that is rooted in the print, newspaper business. They held back.

Chambliss, Martin Gear Up for Senate Runoff

My friend cracks me up

Caught up in the excitement and relief of what DID happen on Tuesday, 4 November, 2008, we have to take a deep breath and realize that what did not happen is that John McCain and Sarah Palin got the chance to appoint possibly three new Associate Justices to the Supreme Court. The ones due to retire in the near future are the "good folks" on the Court, and say what they will, McCain/Palin would have changed the very nature of the Court to rersemble the Supreme Judicial Council of the Ayatollahs of Iran or the Royal Council of Law in Saudi Arabia: America would have gone down the slippery slope to becoming a Theological Judicial System. There are plenty of religious crazies in Judges' robes to pick from. We have been spared. We dodged not just abullet, but a burst of machine gun fire., .
On a sadder note, some Moose were overheard saying :
"Shit! She's not going away. She's comin' back!"

See ya. Mavericky...mavericky....mavericky.
Abhi
Amen.

No words needed

Good for the country.

Unfortunately the Blackwater and Mormon bigots temporarily won this battle in California. They have not won the war. The Proposition 8 ballot measure is unconstitutional, unfair, discriminatory and wrong.

Is San Diego's Voting System Secure? Why Do We Have to Wait So long For Results?

By historymatters Posted November 4, 2008, 8:24 p.m.

election results

MMM, huh, Ok

World markets rise amid news of Obama win
Nikkei adds 4.5 percent but analysts say economic quick fixes are unlikely

Plane crash leaves Mexico interior secretary dead
By MARK STEVENSON – 48 minutes ago

MEXICO CITY (AP) — One of Mexico's top pointmen in the war against drug trafficking died when a government jet crashed into a Mexico City street, setting fire to dozens of vehicles and dealing crusading President Felipe Calderon a serious blow.




Failure to Blow Election Stuns Democrats
Party Faithful Mourn End to Losing Tradition

Just minutes after their party's longstanding losing tradition lay in tatters on the ground, millions of shell-shocked Democrats stared at their television screens in disbelief, asking themselves what went right. For Democrats, who have become accustomed to their party blowing an election even when it seemed like a sure thing, Tuesday night's results were a bitter pill to swallow. The head-shaking and finger-pointing over the demise of the Democrats' losing streak, which many of the party faithful had worn like a badge of honor, reached all the way to the upper echelons of the Democratic National Committee. "Believe me, I'm as shocked by these results as anybody," said DNC chief Howard Dean, who indicated he has received hundreds of calls from incredulous party members. "We did everything in our power to screw this thing up." Dean pointed to several key elements the Democrats put in place to ensure defeat, ranging from "a rancorous primary campaign" to "the appointment of me.""Somehow, despite our best efforts to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, we won," he said. "I came in here with a mandate to blow this thing and I didn't get it done." Carol Foyler, a lifelong Democrat who owns a loom supply store in Portland, Maine, said she has been "nearly catatonic" since the election results were announced. "For the past eight years, I've fixed myself some herbal tea, turned on NPR, and ranted about the Republicans, " she said. "All that has been taken from me." Elsewhere, Sen. John McCain offered this comment on Sen. Barack Obama's victory: "My friends, I've got him just where I want him." (From tonight's "Borowitz Report" by Andy Borowitz)

Obama?

My friend just called from the East Coast and said "It's over, he won." Damned if I want to get my hopes up after the fuckers stole it in '04. When I cry this time, I want it to be tears of joy, I've cried way too many tears of frustration. I'm going to go take a walk, or I'll smoke, or drink coffee, or beer, and then smoke and I haven't done that in 23 days and I don't want to blow it. I want to keep my teeth.

Update 9:51 PM 11/4/2008 I watched the concession speech by McCain in cynical disbelief, but it was nice. I cried all the way through Obama's speech. I sniffled with my sister on the phone and at one point I said "Hey _____" Omigod, there's gonna be brains in the White House again! Hee hee hee!"

No election is perfect...

Subject: [DVN] - 'Daily Voting News' For November 04, 2008 – Evening Edition
From: John Gideon
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:09:28 -0800
To: Daily Voting News Provisional ballot usage has become a big issue this election. Many voters don’t want to use them and who can blame them? Many voters need to use them as the only way they can vote. Part of the problem is that they are misused by election officials. Voter suppression schemes are being used around the country. Someone hacked into the George Mason University intranet and sent an email to staff and students, via the Provost’s email, that election day had been moved to Wed. The Provost, on discovering this, sent an email to tell recipients this was a hoax. Robocalls have been placed to voters telling them the same thing. However, with all of these schemes, and more, the turnout will probably set a record at the polls. A judge has ordered a restraining order at the request of the McCain campaign to require the state to extend the date for adding votes from military voters to the totals to Nov 14 from close of polls today. This means the election may not be certified until after Nov 14. Also going to court is a group representing the voters of Philadelphia who are asking a judge to tell the county to follow a previous ruling and to count emergency paper ballots tonight and not later in the week as they want. And the Ohio GOP has filed asked a federal court to rule that provisional ballots be verified and counted the same way statewide. National: Voting Machine Wins the Presidential Race http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/11/voting-machine.html National: E-Voting Put to the Ultimate Test http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/11/04/e-voting-put-to-the-ultimate-test/ National: Optical Scanners Winning War of Voting Machines http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Government-IT/Optical-Scanners-Winning-War-of-Voting-Machines/ National: Voting machine insecurity Technical glitches and security incidents from the past still cast a long shadow over the electronic voting. http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/47494-1.html National: Op-Scan Machines Have Trouble Reading Ballots http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/11/op-scan-machine.html National: Machine Problem Reports Increasing in VA, PA, FL... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6619 National: Voting technology: Arrows vs. ovals for optical scan ballots http://blogs.computerworld.com/voting_technology_arrows_vs_ovals_for_optical_scan_ballots National: Scattered problems reported in historic U.S. vote http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/voting.problems/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail National: Election Problems Around the Country http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/11/election-prob-1.html National: E-voting glitches hamper elections in seven states Hanging Chad, make room for Folded Crease http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/04/election_day_evoting_glitches/ National: Voting Problems Reports Slowly Coming In http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/11/voting_problems_reports_coming.html National: Glitches, machine breakdowns hamper voting in five states http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/55259.html National: E-Voting Machines in Two-Dozen States Incorrectly Count Votes http://www.pubrecord.org/nationworld/454-voting-machines-in-two-dozen-states-incorrectly-count-votes.html National: ELECTION PROTECTION 2008: Proskauer Partner Says Provisional Ballots a Concern http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2008/11/election-2008-p.html National: E-voting '08: Problems, yes, but it could have been worse Scattered malfunctions caused delays but didn't appear to be widespread http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9119071&intsrc=news_ts_head National: Republican National Committee Prepares for Computerized Voting Fraud Legal Battle http://tinyurl.com/5hptsr AR: Technical Glitch Affects Machines in Clay County http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?S=9291876&nav=menu67_2 AZ: AZ election results to start at 8 p.m. - except Pima http://www.azcapitoltimes.com/story.cfm?id=9744 AZ: Pima County - County challenged over vote-counting for disabled http://www.fox11az.com/news/topstories/stories/kmsb20081104jc-county-challenged-vote-counting-dis.17d305e6f.html CA: Los Angeles County - SoCal Voting Problems http://www.knx1070.com/Voting-Problems-in-the-Valley/3254548 CA: Los Angeles County - Four L.A. polling places struggle with power outages http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pollproblems5-2008nov05,0,2915947.story CO: Colorado Voters Cast Ballots http://cbs4denver.com/politics/denver.voters.ballots.2.856047.html CT: Memory card problem will not affect Torrington polls http://www.registercitizen.com/articles/2008/11/04/news/doc4910802049d17446977746.txt FL: In Florida, Glitches Leave Thousands of Unscanned Ballots Piling Up, Warns Watchdog http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/11/04/in-florida-glitches-leave-thousands-of-unscanned-ballots-piling-up-warns-watchdog.html FL: Voting Rights Watch: Pollsite sabatoge foiled in Florida http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/11/voting-rights-watch-pollsite-sabatoge.asp FL: Voting Rights Watch: Across Florida optical scanner failures are a widespread issue http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/11/voting-rights-watch-across-florida.asp FL: Florida Ballots Go Into Duffle Bags http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/04/florida-ballots-go-into-duffle-bags.aspx FL: Palm Beach County - Palm Beach County precinct problems http://www.wptv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=0443f586-cec6-4dfc-8eb1-2b54b388b00f FL: Palm Beach County - Elections officials: Glitches abound, but election is going smoothly http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/11/04/1104elexdelays.html GA: Clayton sends up helicopter to check lines http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/clayton/stories/2008/11/04/clayton_election.html?cxntlid=brkng_nws_bnr IA: Grinnell College students' ballots challenged http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20081104/NEWS/81104012&theme=CAMPAIGN_2008 KY: Kenton County - Malfunctioning machines pulled in N. Ky. http://www.nola.com/elections/index.ssf/2008/11/malfunctioning_machines_pulled.html MD: Montgomery County - Broken poll book doubles the wait in Takoma Park http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=8989&type=UTTM MI: Machine malfunctions, voter intimidation reported http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081104/POLITICS01/811040396/&imw=Y MI: Voting machine incorrectly counts votes, Oakland Co. clerk says http://www.freep.com/article/20081104/NEWS15/81104053 MI: Electronic Voting Machine Maker Responds http://www.propublica.org/article/electronic-voting-machine-maker-responds-1104/ MN: Voters Report Broken Machines in Buffalo, Brooklyn Center Overall, few voting problems on Election Day in Minnesota http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7788175&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1 MO: Hundreds wait in line to vote in Cape Girardeau http://www.semissourian.com/article/20081104/NEWS01/711055095 MS: Voting machine complaints reported http://www.sunherald.com/185/story/930164.html MS: Voting snafus addressed in South Mississippi http://www.sunherald.com/pageone/story/930309.html NJ: High turnout, voter problems reported around NJ http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/new_jersey/20081104_ap_highturnoutvoterproblemsreportedaroundnj.html NJ: Thousands of new N.J. voters forced to use paper ballots http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/thousands_of_new_nj_voters_for.html NJ: Morris County - Registration mix-ups send Morris voters to court http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/registration_mixups_send_morri.html NY: One Sequoia machine faulty; no other major hiccups in Tompkins County http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20081104/NEWS03/81104021 NY: Tim Robbins Faces Mix-Up at Polling Place http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/tim-robbins-encounters-confusion-at-the-polls/?ei=5070&emc=eta1 OH: Ohio GOP files complaint over provisional ballots http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics/2008/view/2008_11_04_Ohio_GOP_files_complaint_over_provisional_ballots/srvc=home&position=recent OH: Fairfield County - Fairfield corrects provisional ballot snafu http://blog.dispatch.com/vote08/2008/11/ready_for_prime_time.shtml OH: Franklin County - Concerns about provisional ballots surfacing http://blog.dispatch.com/vote08/2008/11/concerns_about_provisional_bal_1.shtml OH: Stark County voters bemoan machine troubles http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=9&ID=439655&subCategoryID=31 PA: Officials: Potential problem in voting straight party http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20081104_Even_before_polling_stations_opened_at_7_00_this_morning__NO_HEAD_SPECIFIED.html PA: Centre County - PSU students reportedly facing voting hurdles http://www.timesleader.com/news/ap?articleID=1030548 PA: Philadelphia County - Philadelphia County Election Officials Fail To Meet Secretary of State’s Orders to Count Emergency Paper Ballots on Election Night - County Claims It Will Count Such Ballots on Friday http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2989&Itemid=113 PA: Philadelphia County - NAACP files suit over emergency ballots http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2008/11/03/daily17.html PA: Wayne County - Tunkhannock poll worker dismissed after allegations of impropriety http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081104/NEWS/81104023 TN: Shelby County - Dozens in Bartlett unable to vote in city's election http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/nov/04/dozens-bartlett-unable-vote-citys-election/ VA: Voting Rights Watch: More details emerge on widespread Va. voting problems http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/11/voting-rights-watch-more-details-emerge.asp VA: Judge Issues Restraining Order in Virginia Vote http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/11/04/judge-issues-restraining-order-in-virginia-vote VA: Voting Rights Watch: Many of Va.'s election day problems could have been avoided by honoring request for paper ballots http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/11/voting-rights-watch-many-of-vas.asp VA: Voting Rights Watch: Improperly distributed provisional ballots jeopardize Virginians' voting rights http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/11/voting-rights-watch-improperly.asp VA: Election Watchers Report Problems Across Virginia http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2008/11/the_election_protection_coalit.html VA: Virginia: The New Florida? http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/gumbel VA: Hacker sends bogus e-mail from George Mason University official’s account http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/11/03/daily37.html VA: Voting Machine Problems in Hampton http://www.wtkr.com/Global/story.asp?S=9290967&nav=ZolHbyvj VA: Hampton Roads Voting Problems http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-135518 VA: Voting Rights Watch: Voting problems continue to plague Virginia http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/11/voting-rights-watch-voting-problems.asp VA: Pittsylvania County - Voters Asked to Return to Polls http://www.wset.com/news/stories/1108/567001.html WV: Ohio County - Voters Have Trouble At the Polls http://www.news-register.net/page/content.detail/id/516505.html?nav=515 **Articles and commentary included in “Daily Voting News” may not all reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or its allied organizations. 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November 4, 2008, 1:05 pm
Tim Robbins Faces Mix-Up at Polling Place
By Nicholas Confessore AND Sewell Chan

Updated, 4:42 p.m. The actor Tim Robbins looked dejected and annoyed around 10:30 a.m. on Election Day, as he was sitting in a folding chair at the McBurney YMCA at 125 West 14th Street, one of the more than 1,300 polling places throughout New York City....


Mr. Robbins said he “never in a million years” imagined that he would be asked to fill out an affidavit ballot. He does not trust provisional ballots, he said, because of research by Mark Crispin Miller and other scholars who have showed that such ballots are sometimes lost or discarded.

“Do the math on this one,” Mr. Robbins said, adding that a poll worker had told him 40 voters at the same polling site had had the same problem — with no apparent explanation. “It bears looking into that this might be a random elimination” of voters from the rolls, he said....

Paul G. Feinman, a Civil Court judge who was standing by to hear challenges from voters denied access to the polls, ruled that the board had to allow Mr. Robbins to vote. As of 1 p.m., Mr. Robbins was making his way back to the McBurney YMCA to cast his ballot.

Apart from mix-ups like the one Mr. Robbins encountered, city election official have acknowledged that many voters — up to 30,000 in New York State, by some estimates — had been removed from the voter rolls. Officials at the city’s Board of Elections said the names were removed only after the voters failed to verify their residence. Mr. Robbins did not appear to have been one of the affected voters.

Mr. Robbins was hardly the only voter to go to the Board of Elections office at 200 Varick Street to assert their right to vote.