The Faith-Based Vote
In many of Tuesday’s closest races, states will use those same old, suspect voting machines.
By Brad Friedman
You probably believe Delaware’s U.S. Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell defeated Mike Castle in the state’s August GOP primary. You may be right, but you can’t prove it. The only thing that can be proved is that Castle trounced O’Donnell by about 55 percent to 45 percent in the paper-based absentee-ballot count. On the touch-screen voting systems used on Election Day, however, O’Donnell is said to have defeated Castle by almost the same percentages, reversed. But there is no way to verify that result.
Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government – 27 Oct 2010
All links are here: http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
WikiLeaks proposed as first public target for U.S. government cyberattack 27 Oct 2010 In a twist that would have been inconceivable even a few months ago, the WikiLeaks.org Web site is being proposed as the first public target for a U.S. government cyberattack. After [WikiLeaks] distributed nearly 400,000 classified documents from the Iraq war on Friday, Washington officialdom responded with a torrent of denunciations alleging violations of national security and endangering U.S. military operations… In August, Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell left open the possibility of offensive action against WikiLeaks.
California KOs Corporate Takeover – Heathens Hold the Line
Michael Collins
The corporate takeover of California is on hold according to the latest polls out of the nation’s largest state. Just nine days before the election, the Los Angeles Times and University of Southern California poll shows a nearly impossible uphill battle for the big business ticket of former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina.
Among likely voters in the governor’s race, Brown leads Whitman 50% to 38%. In the race for United States Senator, two term Senator Barbara Boxer maintained an 8% lead. The leads by Democrats come from a brand new constituency, those who “never” go to church. More on that later.
European Corporations Are Funneling Big-Time Cash Into US Senate Elections for Anti-Environment Candidates
Posted by Tara Lohan
The group Climate Action Network Europe released a new report revealing the effects of Big Business – all the way across the ocean – on our up-coming election. Looks like, not surprisingly, one of the big losers of Citizens United is going to be the environment.
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GOP Victory May Be Defeat For Climate Change Policy
by NPR Staff
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—–Original Message—–
From: “Bev Harris”
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:11:59
Subject: NEW METHODS FOUND TO ANALYZE ABSENTEE VOTES IN QUESTIONABLE ELECTIONS
This is a mildly technical e-mail, but just may save an election near
you next week. Pass this along to your favorite political party or
candidate, because they’ll need to act quickly if their election is
problematic. Their database guy will know what to do with this new
method to isolate absentee votes anomalies. You can see shortcut
images and discuss this here:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/81251.html
A BLACK BOX VOTING EXCLUSIVE – Hidden trend flip just hours before
first absentee results report; missing batches coincide with reversal
of fortune…
Dan Rather hits the nail right on the head.
You can download the show on iTunes starting Wednesday, October 27.
MCM
Digital Democracy in Doubt
Dan Rather
The upcoming midterm elections will be historic, not because of whom we vote for but how we vote: For the first time some form of electronic voting machine will tally ballots in all 50 states. This new digital democracy is the culmination of the federal 2002 Help America Vote Act — a nearly $4 billion upgrade of voting machines approved after the disastrous 2000 Florida presidential election, which infamously left the fate of our country hanging by a chad.
The new computers are designed to count votes faster and more accurately than the clunky old levered, punch card and butterfly ballot machines. And laudably, they will make it easier for tens of thousands of disabled voters to cast ballots. But the new electronic voting, or e-voting, machines also have raised as many questions as they have answered. And they all boil down to the very definition of a democracy: How can the public be sure that each vote counts?
In our latest segment examining the use of e-voting machines, “Das Vote,” we will show again that there’s no guarantee that these machines count votes correctly. Indeed, since 2000, there have been several cases of certain types of e-voting machines mis-recording votes. A number of voting precincts have since spent considerable money upgrading their e-voting machines so they also record a paper record. But many are simply relying on their citizens to have faith in technology that few understand.
The GOP–past masters of election fraud, who’ve stolen scores of races since 2000–are
now shouting that the Democrats are stealing votes. This is a classic propaganda tactic: to
accuse the enemy of doing what you’re doing, or planning what you’re planning, and/or of
having done what you’ve done, thereby imputing your own dirty tricks or crimes to your
own victim. (Although calling it a “tactic” may be slightly off the mark, as those who use
that gambit often do so with such fierce sincerity that it may well be a symptom, too.)
And so the GOP are screaming about ACORN and the New Black Panther Party, and
otherwise appealing to the purely faith-based certainty that “voter fraud” puts, and will
keep, Democrats in power, while the Republicans run honest races, representing the
majority of citizens.
Thus the recent instances of vote-flipping from GOP to Democratic candidates would
seem not to be a genuine “glitch” but a deliberate ploy to make the GOP’s claims seem
more plausible. That the e-voting system is owned, managed and maintained by highly
partisan Republicans, and programmed by them, too, makes it, to say the least, unlikely
that there’s anything to Sharron Angle’s charges. But it doesn’t matter much, because
those facts are largely unknown to the public, thanks to the staunch refusal of the media
and the Democratic Party to talk about the issue.
In any case, both Harry Reid and Sharron Angle should demand a full investigation of
what’s happening in Nevada; and so should every other candidate wherever there are
indications of electoral foul play.
And, meanwhile, let’s finally snap out of our long national trance, and face the fact
that We the People use a faith-based voting system, which is owned and run private
by companies with a partisan agenda–and that this has to stop, or we’re completely
finished as a democratic country.
MCM
E-Vote Trouble in NV & My Article at Truthout Today: ‘Hacking Harry Reid (or Sharron’s Angle)’
by Brad Friedman
After reports of ES&S touch-screen votes flipping away from Republicans, for a change, over the last several days in North Carolina and in Texas, reports are now coming in from Nevada about similar occurrences on that state’s Sequoia touch-screens, just in time to underscore the importance of my story published today at Truthout, “Hacking Harry Reid (or Sharron’s Angle)” arguing that one or both of the candidates locked in the Silver State Senate Standoff need to get to a court immediately, even though neither of them are likely to do so.
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Sharron Angle Campaign: Harry Reid ‘Intends To Steal This Election’
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel First
Republican candidate Sharron Angle’s campaign is accusing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of plotting to steal Nevada’s Senate election with decision day in the Silver State just one week away. The campaign provides virtually no evidence to back up the claim, and Nevada’s Secretary of State disputes the e-mail’s allegations.
From Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG):
‘US troops beheaded Iraqi detainee’* 25 Oct 2010 American forces decapitated an Iraqi last year on the order of their higher-up, show recently-exposed US military documents. The troops operated under the command of an unnamed US major, who had been involved in the rape of an Iraqi female, showed one such document posted on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The incident took place after the victim, the brother of the raped female, reportedly killed a military official in reprisal for the indecent assault. To enable the May incident in the city of Haditha of the western Iraq province of Al Anbar, the major said he was undertaking the transfer of two prisoners, including the victim.
* http://wikileaks.org/id/9144F69E-423D-4561-52BC3A74A67A6F2F/
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WPost Downplays Iraq War Crimes
By Robert Parry
The judges at Nuremberg after World War II had a much deeper understanding of the horrors of war than the neocon editors at the Washington Post do. Assessing the barbarity unleashed by the Nazis, the Nuremberg Tribunal identified “war of aggression” as “the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
In a word, the man should be impeached.
MCM
Clarence Thomas’s Ethics Problems, Then and Now
Bruce Shapiro
Why now? What, after almost twenty years, prompted Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to leave a message on Brandeis professor Anita Hill’s office voicemail asking her to apologize for accusing Justice Thomas of sexual harassment during his 1991 confirmation hearings?
From Jonathan Simon:
Mark,
We know better than to put anything past them. That said, we would expect to find a few glitches out there. The pattern we would see if pro-GOP rigging was rampant would be a certain very small amount of visible vote flipping both ways (those would be the glitches) while the real rigging was invisible.
Vote flipping visible on the screen is a risky and rather stupid way to rig elections and there’s obviously no need for it; you can just program the invisible counter on the chip to “flip” the votes. Visible vote flipping can lead to voter frustration and longer lines and work as a “denial of service” attack, but that is small potatoes compared to the potential of flat-out rigging. It could also conceivably provide an excuse for “maintenance,” allowing technicians to recalibrate the rig.
And, finally, it could be a calling card left visible to show that it’s just “innocent” glitches (which go in both directions) and not systemic fraud, as the unilateral pattern in the past has led us to claim.
Who knows. I strongly doubt, however, that it’s a GOP attempt to bring pro-Democratic rigging to light. They have way too much to lose by triggering any additional public attention to this phenomenon on either side. If I had to guess, I would say these flips are either genuine glitches or perhaps programming mistakes on the part of inside manipulators who just screwed up their code.
I have hoped that at some point a white-hat hacker would come in and rig an election such that, say, one candidate got 25 million votes in a state like North Dakota with a tiny fraction of that population. That would certainly get some attention and should be easy enough to do. I wondered briefly whether the flips that have been reported were part of such an effort, but I doubt it.
–Jon
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