‘Daily Voting News’ For May 19, 2007

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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

New Jersey is taking a small step toward ensuring the voting machines their citizens use are reliable and work as advertised. The state Attorney General has asked New Jersey Institute of Technology scientists and students to test printing systems that will be required on all voting machines used in the state after next January. Activists have pointed out, correctly, that this new development does not go far enough and they turn to California for proof. California has begun a top to bottom inspection and testing of all voting systems used in the state.

Links to that story, and many more, all follow below…

  • NAtional: Opinion – GOP’s unsubstantiated voter fraud claims LINK
  • MA: Plympton [hand] counts on its elections LINK
  • NJ: Voting activists win concession: State agrees to test machines LINK
  • NJ: NJIT to test paper record system LINK
  • PA: Carbon County – Some precincts in Carbon may be divided to ease lines in 2008 LINK
  • PA: Lackawanna County – Officials wading through write-ins LINK
  • PA: Lycoming County – The official vote count is off and running LINK
  • TX: Aurora voting machine fixed LINK
  • **”Daily Voting News” is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in “Daily Voting News” may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or BradBlog.Com**

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    2 Comments on “‘Daily Voting News’ For May 19, 2007

    1. Voting by the Republican 109th Congress led to the Iraq war and its funding. Money from America flowing to Iraq in vast quantities has been the result.

      Bloggers here know I have suspected that taxpayer dollars sent to Iraq makes its way to republican operatives to be laundered.

      This not-so-far-fetched idea is beginning to come out into the open:

      In one of the most troubling trends, U.S. officials said that Al Qaeda’s command base in Pakistan is increasingly being funded by cash coming out of Iraq, where the terrorist network’s operatives are raising substantial sums from donations to the anti-American insurgency as well as kidnappings of wealthy Iraqis and other criminal activity.

      The influx of money has bolstered Al Qaeda’s leadership ranks at a time when the core command is regrouping and reasserting influence over its far-flung network. The trend also signals a reversal in the traditional flow of Al Qaeda funds, with the network’s leadership surviving to a large extent on money coming in from its most profitable franchise, rather than distributing funds from headquarters to distant cells.

      (LA Times, emphasis added). We know that Iraq gets its money from the US taxpayer these daze.

      If it is not a stretch that US taxpayer dollars are going into Iraq then out of Iraq to Al Qaeda in Pakistan, then it is likewise not a stretch to see how Blackwater operatives and military elements can redirect it back to the states to be laundered is it?

      Votes do matter John, so thanks for keeping an eye on it all these years!

    2. Hello,
      I am wondering whether the voting machines that will be used for the democrat and republican primaries will have paper auditing?
      I am concerned that either of these may be gamed as the MSM is certainly playing favourites at the moment which is a little alarming.

      Regards,
      JRW

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