Archive for November, 2008
Investigate Prop 8 vote count, VR urges CA SoS
Investigate Proposition 8 Vote Count
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 25, 2008, California
On behalf of the people of California, Velvet Revolution (”VR”) has called on California Secretary of State Debra Bowen to order an immediate investigation into the accuracy of the vote count on Prop 8, the ballot measure to amend the state’s Constitution to repeal marriage equality.
VR [...]
Peter B. Collins now live in Boston!
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Franken camp finds 6,400 uncounted absentee ballots
Also see below for RFK, Jr.’s campaign to keep Minnesota ‘08 from turning into Florida ‘00.
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Franken camp finds 6,400 uncounted absentee ballots
11/25/2008 @ 2:56 pm
Filed by Nick Juliano
With the recount in the razor-thin Minnesota U.S. Senate race continuing into its second week, Democratic candidate Al Franken’s campaign says it has uncovered 6,400 rejected absentee ballots [...]
Putting the bailout in perspective
From ritholtz.com, via Earl Katz.
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Whenever I discussed the current bailout situation with people, I find they have a hard time comprehending the actual numbers involved. That became a problem while doing the research for the Bailout Nation book. I needed some way to put this into proper historical perspective.
If we add in the Citi bailout, [...]
More on the Ohio RICO suit and Georgia…
Diebold Touch-Screen Memory Cards and Other Documents Sought for Retention as Allegations of Racketeering Scheme ‘to Corrupt Elections in the U.S. Over the Course of This Decade’ Spread to Encompass ‘02 and ‘08 Senate Races in the Peach State…
Guest blogged by Steve Heller of Velvet Revolution
The lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the civil RICO [...]
Latest on MN, GA, Prop 8 (from Brad Friedman)
BRAD BLOG ALERT
November 25, 2008
Every Vote Matters in MN’s U.S. Senate Hand-Count. Every. Single. One.
Missing Ballots, Uncounted Absentees and the GOP PR Battle That May Trump Both…
With math/statistics/poll-wiz Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com predicting the U.S. Senate race between incumbent MN Sen. Norm Coleman (R) and challenger Al Franken (D) could result in a 27 [...]
The wisdom of Thomas Friedman
From Bruce J. Miller:
Thomas Friedman’s Wise Words
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman has always struck me as a buffoon. I know it’s unkind to comment on his double chin, but, with the Thanksgiving holiday on the horizon, his resemblance to the holiday bird, particularly when he shakes his head for emphasis and the ample neck [...]
SPOONAMORE SUITS EXTENDS TO GEORGIA
Ohio Attorney Requests Handel Hold E-voting Docs, Equipment
Election protection attorney Cliff Arnebeck in Ohio, who’s been working on the E-voting issue for years, has issued a document hold request to Georgia Secretary of State, Cathy Cox, for all voting equipment in the current election, for use in an upcoming E-voting lawsuit in Ohio. Arnebeck [...]
Unsigned absentee forms thwart Republicans in GA
COBB COUNTY: Ballot requests run into a glitch
By Kent A. Miles
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Saturday, November 22, 2008
A Republican-generated effort to get out the vote for the Dec. 2 runoff election has hit a snag as thousands of requests for absentee ballots have been denied because the applications were not signed.
County elections officials are contacting voters by [...]
US to lend as much as $7.4 TRILLION….?
Bloomberg: US could lend as much as $7.4 trillion
Published: Monday November 24, 2008
“The U.S. government is prepared to lend more than $7.4 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers, or half the value of everything produced in the nation last year, to rescue the financial system since the credit markets seized up 15 months ago,” according [...]
