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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 […]

So, if you live in Virginia your candidate should have a short name which begins with a letter not too far down the alphabet.

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 […]

“Der coulda been extenuatin’ soycumstances!”

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 […]

Let me know when the electorate becomes tired of playing the sucker in a 3-Card Monte game!

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.

That is either code on the terminal or the weirdest screen saver I’ve ever seen.

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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Three different articles talk about the disaster which our election process has become.

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.

How McCain can even talk to W is amazing, but Johnny is the one who crawled to Jerry Falwell and his Bible-thumpin’ morality mutants.

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.

Profiles In Discouragement

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 […]

That would be three times in a row. What’s new?

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 […]

One does not have to belong to PETA to believe this almost sounds “serial-killer” sick. Why couldn’t he go to grave robbers like any self-respecting home researcher?

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 […]

I wonder what they sang at the pajama party? 99 ballots of Bilbray is all/99 ballots Bilbray/Add one in/It’s no sin/100 Ballots Bilbray is all!

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 […]