Archive for the 'Elections' Category
Sunday, October 29th, 2006
“October 29, 2006
U.S. Investigates Voting Machines’ Venezuela Ties
By TIM GOLDEN
The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chávez.
The inquiry is focusing on the Venezuelan owners of the software […]
Posted in Congress, administration, Dubai, Venezuela, Elections |
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
VIRGINIA RESULTS: ALLEN–1; ED OTT–2; POL POT–3; JAMES WEBB–N/A.
“Some Voting Machines Chop Off Candidates’ Names
Computer Glitch Affects Voters in 3 Jurisdictions; Error Cannot Be Fixed by Nov. 7
By Leef Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 24, 2006; B04
U.S. Senate candidate James Webb’s last name has been cut off on part of the electronic ballot used by […]
Posted in 2006 Election, Virginia, Elections, Electronic Voting, George Allen |
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
The Associated Press wrote yesterday that a State Department spokesman confirmed the meetings with Condi who had claimed she would have remembered such an important threat had it been given. According to the story, the spokesman said she had told him to forward the report to Secretary of Defense Rumnsfeld and then Attorney General Ashcroft […]
Posted in administration, CIA, Fashion, Rumsfeld, Books, Transportation, 9/11, Condoleezza Rice, Elections, S-E-X, Tenet, Ashcroft |
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Two more years of a Congress like the present model will all but allow the Moron Sadist to get us into a situation from which we shall have to crawl–not walk.
Here is the Princeton University e-vote study.
Posted in 2006 Election, Diebold, Elections |
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
A Princeton University Computer Science professor and two grad students hack a Diebold voting machine.
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Please find the article here.
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Posted in 2006 Election, Diebold, Elections |
Monday, August 28th, 2006
The Rasmussen Survey proclaims that voters in most states say the political system is a mess.
Raw Story had two articles about grotesque voting problems in Florida and California. These problems will undoubtedly reverberate in other states as Florida’s 2000 election set the standard for Ohio’s 2004 debacle.
Please find the articles here, there & Yon.
Posted in Republicans, 2006 Election, Florida, California, Society, Elections |
Saturday, August 26th, 2006
Associated Press
McCain Stresses Support for Iraq Mission
By JENNIFER TALHELM , 08.25.2006, 03:47 PM
‘Republican Sen. John McCain said Friday he supports the U.S. mission in Iraq days after faulting the Bush administration for misleading Americans into believing it would be “some kind of day at the beach.”‘
Please find the entire article here.
Posted in John S. McCain III, Elections |
Saturday, August 26th, 2006
McCain, Specter, Frist, Santorum, Clinton, Leiberman!!
Why is the senate inhabited by so many weasels who change their minds daily for one or two votes?
“The McCain Makeover
Does the veteran Republican rebel really mean all those nice things he’s saying about George W. Bush?
By Glenn Frankel
Sunday, August 27, 2006; W12
IT’S FEBRUARY 15, 2000, a pivotal […]
Posted in Bush, John S. McCain III, Elections |
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
“Bush Would Lose to Gore and Kerry Today
Angus Reid Consultants
August 9, 2006
- Adults in the United States would vote differently in a rerun of the last two presidential elections, according to a poll by Scripps Howard News Service released by Ohio University. 46 per cent of respondents would support Democrat John Kerry in a repeat […]
Posted in Bush, Polls, Elections, Al Gore, John Kerry |
Monday, June 12th, 2006
The Tennessean
Kitty-killer label litters Frist resume for president
Published: Monday, 06/12/06
There’s a potential pothole in U.S. Sen. Bill Frist’s road to the White House: He’s a confessed kitty killer.
He fessed up in his 1989 book, “Transplant,” to adopting cats from shelters when he was in medical school, treating them like pets for a […]
Posted in Republicans, Tennessee, Elections |
Saturday, June 10th, 2006
Blogged by Brad on 6/8/2006 @ 8:54pm PT…
BUSBY/BILBRAY ELECTION IN DOUBT: The Diebold Machine Sleepovers at Poll Workers Houses…
Given what we know about Diebold voting machines (both optical-scan and touch-screen), several folks have written to ask: “Are you sure they actually allowed poll workers to take these machines…
Given what we know about Diebold voting machines […]
Posted in Congress, Republicans, California, Elections |