Today on The BradCast, as voters head to the polls in MD, CT, RI, DE and PA (where there are already reports of problems on the state’s 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting systems), some voters are petitioning NY for a partial hand-count of the paper ballots from last week’s troubled Presidential Primary in the state. Meanwhile, blowback continues in NC against the state Republicans’ pro-discrimination and anti-voting rights laws. [Audio link for the show is at bottom of article.]
The election season grinds on, with more lawsuits, legal investigations and challenges then I ever recall seeing at this point in the cycle. In New York, where last week’s Presidential Primary was plagued with problems such as questionable voter purges, closed polling places and failed optical-scan computer tabulation systems, Election Justice USA, which filed a suit against NY the day before the DNC (and Clinton and Sanders campaigns) did so, is now calling for a partial hand-count of paper ballots across the state.
The group’s petition cites those problems and others for the lack of confidence that many voters now have in the results as reported by NY’s paper-ballot optical-scan computer tabulators which have failed in the past, as the NY Daily News found in 2012, to count an enormous percentage of ballots in some precincts. Their petition also includes a video clip from an award-winning 2008 documentary film, HOLLER BACK – [not] VOTING IN AN AMERICAN TOWN, in which I appeared discussing the reasons for hand-counting paper ballots, rather than merely trusting in oft-failed, easily hacked computer tabulators. (But its an excellent film anyway!)
I explain all of the above today, as well as why Bernie Sanders supporters are both overstating their current argument of “fraud” in the NY election, even as the lack of transparency in the state’s electronic counting system leaves voters with every reason to have uncertainty in the computer-tallied results. (In somewhat related news, also discussed today, hand-counts in DuPage County, IL recently resulted in three different write-in candidates, 2 Republicans and 1 Democrat, being found to have won their races after originally being announced “losers” following last month’s primary elections there.)
Also today, before moving on to our interview, a federal judge has upheld NC’s massive voter restriction law which mandates Photo ID voting restrictions, bans same-day registration, restricts early voting and registration and much more. I’ve previously described that law, enacted by state Republicans just days after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, as “the most extreme anti-voter bill passed by any state since the Jim Crow Era.” Opponents of the law, including the NAACP, ACLU and U.S. Dept. of Justice, have now appealed the District Court’s 485-page ruling which argues that “there is little official discrimination” in NC anymore.
That ruling, by a George W. Bush appointed judge, is difficult to square with the state’s GOP nominee for Attorney General, who told a crowd at a rally in support of NC’s controversial anti-LGBT law yesterday that “we must fight to keep our state straight.”
Joining us today to discuss that “deeply unpopular” law and others like it — as well as massive blowback it has engendered for the state — is gay rights activist, Fred Karger, a former GOP operative, campaign official for Presidents Reagan and Ford, and the first openly gay Presidential candidate. (His run for the 2012 Republican nomination is the subject of the documentary film FRED.)
On the heels of his successful campaign against CA’s Prop 8, the Mormon Church and the National Organization for Marriage, Karger recently described at Huffington Post how boycotts can work against such measures. We discuss that, the continuing disintegration of his formerly Grand Old Party, and his thoughts on the reasons for the sudden spate of discriminatory laws, mostly in the South.
“I think it’s because they’re sore losers,” he tells me. “It’s not even been a year since the Supreme Court allowed marriage equality to be the law of the land in all fifty states. So we’re seeing tens of thousands of very happy same-sex couples getting married. And there’s a backlash because there are a lot of people very unhappy about that.” He goes on to explain why GOP politicians, “when they’re running for re-election or moving up for another post,” see the gay and transgender community as “an easy target”.
Finally today, we close today with a fascinating and previously unknown fact about the dearly departed Prince…
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numbers going backwards
http://elections.delaware.gov/results/html/election.shtml
http://electionssc.delaware.gov/2016%20Reg%20Totals/April%202016%20House.pdf
suffix 57,000 registered dems and 90,000 dem votes
what am i missing here?
http://elections.delaware.gov/results/html/stwoff_kns.shtml
ok this is suffix alone
we will see were the numbers land
You mean Sussex County, Karen (not Suffix — just for those playing along at home.)
I’m trying to look into the screenshots showing numbers that appear to go backwards for Sanders in Sussex last night (which is what I believe you were trying to link to in your first comment.)
As to your other two comments, I’m not sure what you’re asking about, but I think you figured out that you were only looking at registration numbers for Sussex only (as opposed to the whole state). If so, I guess you figured that out?
Before T. Cruz changed his name and became a pol:
(Butch Hancock).
“Ivory Soap–99&44/100% pure. It floats.”*
Reality–99.99999997% of the time, there is no evidence of in-person voter fraud.^ GOP Photo ID. It sinks.**
“Also today, … a federal judge has upheld NC’s massive voter restriction law which mandates Photo ID voting restrictions, bans same-day registration, restricts early voting and registration and much more. I’ve previously described that law, enacted by state Republicans just days after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, as ‘the most extreme anti-voter bill passed by any state since the Jim Crow Era.’ Opponents of the law, including the NAACP, ACLU and U.S. Dept. of Justice, have now appealed the District Court’s 485-page ruling which argues that ‘there is little official discrimination’ in NC anymore.”
What Constitution is he upholding? Any United States Judge who makes a ruling so contrary to the facts, the law, and the issues should be impeached, tried, convicted, and removed from office.
*From the old commercials
^Thirty-one POSSIBLE cases of voter fraud out of one billion votes comes down to 0.00000003 of 1%. **A new pro-democracy commercial?
From a Richard Charnin post at election integrity google group: “Never forget: The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) discusses the matching process in Explaining Exit Polls. But they never mention election fraud as a likely cause of the discrepancies. In actuality the adjusted exit poll crosstabs contaminate the true statistical results and are misleading as they do not reflect the the actual responses of those exit polled.”
http://www.aapor.org/Education-Resources/Election-Polling-Resources/Explaining-Exit-Polls.aspx
Count ALL PAPER BALLOTS in the polls on election day, as the Germans do because the German High Court said software use to cast or count votes is unconstitutional.
Correction: Count all paper ballots by hand in the polls on election day. Eliminate software or digital election systems from casting or counting votes. Make elections people centered, not corporate owned, directed, and therefore special interest serving, not the people.
Star Member Kip Humphrey (4,432 posts)
56. In this election, the numbers are direct from the central state vote tabulators.
no human intervention involved. Centralized electronic voter registration integrated into the (required) State central vote tabulation software was rolled out (and federally subsidized) for this election.
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if what this poster said is true then the activists have indeed caught “official” numbers going backwards,,,just like we documented years ago in monroe ark
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yes i caught my mistake on the website mixup but finding the correct numbers just raises different questions
if there were 57,635 registered dems and only about 16,000 dem votes were reported that is really low turn out
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Star Member Kip Humphrey (4,432 posts)
65. The software allows for human corrections in the tabulated numbers but the algorithm producing the
error runs first, uncovering the error. The error producing set of conditions may have originated any number of ways and therefore can’t be diagnosed without a forensic investigation. The flag here is a software algorithm issue generated a false result which should spur a software forensic investigation except, smack, the software is proprietary & a trade secret.
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i hope you and kip talk so you can report on this,
“Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you’re going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.”
I love that Dredd.
Is it possible that Rafael Cruz is actually an ugly girl?
karenfromillinois:
Don’t get mad a Brad; he’s not a main stream journalist. He has to be careful. 😀
Is someone mad at me again, Larry?
Well, it is Wednesday.
Here’s what a real journalist – Amy Goodman – says about supporting candidates, just before she takes John Fund down.
This is the only time I ever saw C-Span founder, Brian Lamb, slip in his opinion of a guest, against the mission of his great media creation which was designed to let people decide what they saw, without pundits telling them what they saw.
Glad to have archived this and put it up.
This is yet another example of why the self-styled “conservatives”–and the self-styled “mainstream” press that enables them–have to be challenged relentless in regard to the phony Photo ID issue.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/04/26/1520311/-Scott-Walker-signs-bill-that-stops-communities-from-issuing-IDs-for-voting
[FIXED LINK FOR YOU – BF]
The link did not post. But this is the article at Daily Kos: “Scott Walker signs bill that stops communities from issuing IDs for voting”
Brad:
The Democrats lost the South when LBJ signed the voting rights and civil rights laws, and the Southern strategy of the Nixon era continued through the 2000s. The Southern Strategy worked and the Republicans are paying for it now. I don’t know if LBJ knew that the Democrats could no longer keep the Southern states in the Dem fold, but it seems that instead of a blunder, letting the southern states go to the Republicans was probably the best thing that could have happened to the Dems. The southern states act as if they are mentally ill. They do self destructive things in attempts to control people and then blame others when it hits the fan (the LGBT laws are recent examples). They have the lowest tax rates in the country, then wonder why their schools are falling apart and they don’t have as well educated and trained workforce as other states. Their “way of life’ that they are so proud of (and so quick to defend) is what is bringing them down. The political revolution that Bernie talks about is more desperately needed in the south, but because the rich and politically connected want what the wealthy and powerful in the south have, the southern “way of life” disease has spread to other parts of the country and needs to be extricated nationwide.