‘Fraud’ Controversy Over Sweeping CO Election Reform Bill Misses Mark by a Vote-by-Mail Mile
An ambitious election reform bill supported by state Democrats and the Colorado County Clerks Association, which is largely made up of Republicans, will soon land on the desk of Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, despite the objections of Republican lawmakers and the state’s extraordinarily partisan Republican Sec. of State. The bill has now been approved by […]
Speed-Blogging: Imaginary Rightwing ‘News’; a Weighty Defense; of Pandas and Hilary…
A few seemingly remarkable items coming in via our Twitter feed today, all fueled by folks on the Right who are hoaxed into giving their hard-earned dollars to con-men… • The crew at the pretend “news” site, Breitbart.com (specifically, Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro) have successfully pushed a story about “Friends of Hamas” supporting SecDef-nominee, Sen. Chuck […]
GOP at Brink of (Not So) Civil War?
How far to the Right has the Republican Party gone over the past few years? So far that they now seem to even consider Karl Rove a traitor to their cause. As evidence, take a look at these headlines from Rightwing sites taking Rove to the woodshed this week in response to his recently announced […]
‘Tea Party’ Brand Now a Liability to ‘Tea Party’ … and Republicans
Palm Beach Post’s George Bennet wrote last week about how so-called “Tea Party” groups seem to be running away from the “Tea Party” name in places like Florida. The South Florida Tea Party, for example — the one that helped launch the national career of Sen. Marco Rubio and hosted Donald Trump while he was […]
Why Isn’t ‘Tea Party’ ‘Hostage-Taking’ a Crime?
While the short answer is that it is no doubt protected against criminal prosecution by the Speech or Debate Clause of the U.S. Constitution, one can’t help but think of how the successive efforts by radical ‘Tea Party’ Republicans, first during the manufactured “fiscal cliff” crisis, and now by way of holding a figurative gun […]
‘True the Vote’ Fakes the ‘Voter Fraud’
The Rightwing, (not) “non-partisan”, Republican-allied “election integrity” group calling themselves “True the Vote” knows first-hand what fraud actually is. On Election Day this year, their own observers were barred from monitoring the polls in Franklin County, OH, after the county’s bipartisan Board of Elections had determined that the group had “forged” and photocopied the signatures […]
Allen West Concedes: ‘I Congratulate Patrick Murphy as New Congressman from Florida’s 18th’
In what UPI’s Gabrielle Levy describes as a “passive-aggressive” Facebook post, Republican Rep. Allen West conceded to his Democratic challenger, Patrick Murphy, in FL’s 18th Congressional District this morning. Here’s the first part of West’s post… For two weeks since Election Day, we have been working to ensure every vote is counted accurately and fairly. […]
Wild Weekend Update in the Allen West, Patrick Murphy FL-18 U.S. House Election Debacle
It was a crazy weekend — and that may be an understatement — in St. Lucie County, Florida, as the fight continued over the questionable, completely unverified-by-humans, and extremely close computer-reported election results between Rep. Allen West (R) and Patrick Murphy (D) in the U.S. House race for Florida’s 18th Congressional District. Two things, if […]
‘Dark Money’ Hearings Needed in U.S. Senate
Lisa Graves, of The Center for Media and Democracy [CMD], is “asking citizens to contact their Senator and demand hearings on the way ‘dark money’ has stealthily influenced the election.” The CMD’s proposal includes a specific demand that Charles and David Koch be subpoenaed to testify — something which, Graves explains, the oil and chemical […]
Florida Court Denies Allen West’s Motion for Broader Partial Re-Tally of Ballots in FL-18 Race
[Now UPDATED at bottom of story.] A Circuit Court Judge in St. Lucie County today denied Florida’s Republican Rep. Allen West’s motion to order a re-tally of all Early Voting ballots in the county, after a partial re-tally of Early Votes last Sunday resulted in the disappearance of some 800 votes in the FL-18 U.S. […]
Maybe ‘CRY BABIES!’ Is Easier to Spell?
Good luck with that! We’d hate to see ya go. [Hat-tip Immoral Minority.] And, by the way, for those GOP dupes who point to that infamous — and extremely misleading — Red/Blue map of states as evidence of…anything, really, here’s a much more helpful map of what the U.S. actually looks like right now, such […]
Sandy’s Silver Lining?
Amidst disaster, a silver lining? Hurricane Sandy demolished the policies of individual greed that found their most absurd application in Mitt Romney’s prior proposal to privatize disaster relief. The super storm tested the inner resolve and character of a Republican governor, who was forced to choose between the doctrinaire insanity required by his dirty energy […]
Rep. Allen West Refuses to Concede, Seeks Hand-Count, Impounding of Ballots and Voting Systems in FL-18 U.S. House Race
On Election Night, Democrats and progressives celebrated the reported defeat of far Rightwing Tea Party-backed Rep. Allen West (R-FL22) by his Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy in Florida’s newly redistricted 18th Congressional district in Eastern Florida. With precinct votes unofficially tabulated in the three counties which comprise the new Democratic-leaning district — Martin, St. Lucie and […]
Houston NAACP: ‘True the Vote’ ‘Attacking’ Volunteers for Giving Water to Voters in Line
We just posted an item about the Rightwing’s pretend “non-partisan” “election integrity” group True the Vote having forged the names of its own volunteers in Franklin County, OH where they have now been barred from participating in poll-watching. Now we see this from the Houston NAACP [PDF]… As this year’s election comes to a close, […]
True the Fraudsters: Rightwing ‘True the Vote’ Forged Pollwatcher Applications in Ohio
Well, imagine that, the very first reported fraud of Election Day 2012 appears to have been committed by the supposedly anti-fraud, Rightwing “election integrity” group, True the Vote, in Ohio. Their election observers poll-challengers, as Plunderbund reports, “will not be allowed in Franklin County polling locations” today after they appear to have forged signatures of […]