Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
On Friday, not a day to announce good news in a press release, the EAC announced that Alice Miller, the Executive Director of the Washington DC Bureau of Elections and Ethics (BOEE), has been named to fill the post of Chief Operating Officer for the EAC. On the face of it this looks to be fine; however, Miller’s appointment keeps the door between NASED and the EAC revolving. EAC officers and employees; Davidson, Wilkey, Hancock, and consultants; Freeman; were all involved in what can only be described as a failed voting system qualification system. Alice Miller was the head of NASED at the time that many of the failing voting systems were being qualified for use in our elections. …
- NAtional: EAC Selects D.C. Elections Director for Chief Operating Officer Post
http://www.eac.gov/News/press/eac-picks-d-c-elections-director-for - NAtional: Confusing ballot designs still plague elections
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110ap_bad_ballots.html - NAtional: Editorial – Voter ID court ruling a barrier to ballot box
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080510/OPINION/805100474/1015/opinion - NAtional: Opinion – Acorn’s Head Attacks Voter ID Law
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121038373358182135.html?mod=googlenews_wsj - NAtional: Following directions counts in vote
Recent recounts show voter errors can change tally
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=748790 - FL: VA’s voter registration ban raises questions
http://www.tampabay.com/news/military/veterans/article497828.ece - IL: Help Us Bring Clean Elections to Illinois
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_lora_cha_080511_help_us_bring_clean_.htm - IN: Opinion – Voter ID laws go too far in Indiana
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=687627&category=OPINION&newsdate=5/10/2008 - IN: Porter County – County clerk seeks election help
http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2008/05/11/news/porter_county/doc25c2997a75a3620d86257446000bc1a2.txt - MO: Carnahan warns against Voter I.D. law
http://publicbroadcasting.net/kwmu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1274337§ionID=1 - OH: 3 counties in a spot over voting machines
Brunner has second thoughts on testing systems
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/05/08/copy/gov_concerns.ART_ART_05-08-08_B4_POA53TS.html?adsec=politics&sid=101 - OH: Brunner talks about award, study of electronic voting
http://www.times-gazette.com/news/article/3774092 - OH: Butler County – Report on vote-counting mistake due this week
http://www.western-star.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/05/11/hjn051208electionscounty.html - TN: Pulaski County – Bassham Explains Going Over Budget
http://www.wksr.com/wksr.php?rfc=src/article.html&id=17459 - VA: Human error at Chesapeake polls led to mix-up about who won seat
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/05/human-error-chesapeake-polls-led-mixup-about-who-won-seat - WV: Ireland Wants Election Results Early and Without Problems
http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/509303.html?nav=515 - Canada: North American Elections Officials to Observe New Brunswick Municipal Election
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/254558
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Brad,
I read this article in the NYTIMES this morning and thought you should post this story (if you haven’t already somewhere else).
Voter ID Battle Shifts to Proof of Citizenship
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/us/politics/12vote.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
at the heart of the matter is this:
In most of the states that require identification, voters can use utility bills, paychecks, driver’s licenses or student or military ID cards to prove their identity. In the Democratic primary election last week in Indiana, several nuns were denied ballots because they lacked the required photo IDs.
Measures requiring proof of citizenship raise the bar higher because they offer fewer options for documentation. In most cases, aspiring voters would have to produce an original birth certificate, naturalization papers or a passport. Many residents of Arizona and Missouri already have citizenship information associated with their driver’s licenses, and within a few years all states will be required by the federal government to restrict licenses to legal residents.
Critics say that when this level of documentation is applied to voting, it becomes more difficult for the poor, disabled, elderly and minorities to participate in the political process.
Thanks,
JP
Short Version: The REAL Math
(McCain + Obama) – Clinton = Another Republican in the White House.
Cheney Energy Bill = 29 New nuclear power plants
[ (GE + Westinghouse = Nuke power plant builders) + Dick Cheney ENERGY Bill ] x (McCain + Obama) = 29 New nuclear power plants
McCain’s VOTE on The Cheney Energy Bill = YES
Obama’s VOTE on the Cheney Energy Bill = YES
Clinton’s VOTE on the Cheney Energy Bill = NO
{ Obama +NBC+MSNBC+CBS+Fox+(All the MSM)} vs. Clinton = Another Republican in the White House
Clue: GE owns NBC & MSNBC; Westinghouse owns CBS; (GE= 2nd largest corporation on the planet); BOTH have been pumping $$$Billions of ADvertising dollars into every FORM of MEDIA they don’t own, for generations.
i.e. [ Cheney + (McCain + Obama) + The MEDIA ] vs. Clinton.= Bush’s Third Term
LONG Version: The REAL Math:
i.e. [ Cheney + (McCain + Obama) + The MEDIA ] vs. Clinton.= Bush’s Third Term
[ (GE + Westinghouse = Nuke power plant builders) + Dick Cheney ENERGY Bill ] x (McCain + Obama) = 29 New nuclear power plants
(Your Copy of an email I am sending to all our Congress People Today.)
NO Obama = NO NUKES!
NO to Dick Cheney! & GE!
****EXTREME WARNING****
** to ALL DEMOCRAT Senators & Representatives**
DEMOCRATS Voting in the PRIMARY States CHOSE CLINTON.
Do NOT Allow REPUBLICANS in the CAUCUS states to “choose” our Candidate.
IF YOU Throw this Election to the Republicans–The Democratic Party
IS HISTORY–and YOU will be OUT.
TABOO words the MEDIA doesn’t Mention:
Cheney Energy Bill
Rezko Trial
Quoting Obama: “The American people deserve honest answers.”
QUESTIONS All of US should be ASKING The MEDIA: Phone, Fax, email, post, blog & Asking ALL your Congress people/SuperDelegates.
QUESTIONS:
1. WHY isn’t THE MEDIA providing NEWS Coverage of The BIGGEST—ENERGY ISSUE? i.e. Are WE going to LET Cheney, GE, Westinghouse et al, Build 29 New nuclear power plants, or Not?
ANSWER: The TV MEDIA isn’t providing NEWS coverage of one of the BIGGEST ISSUES of our time –BECAUSE: the BUILDERS of those nuke power plants will be GE, Westinghouse, Excelon Corp. of Illinois, Entergy; 3 Consortiums of nuke industy companies…
… and …. GE owns NBC/MSNBC, Westinghouse owns CBS…PLUS-(GE, 2nd largest corp. on the planet) & Westinghouse have $BILLIONS of Adverising $$$ to spend in EVERY FORM OF MEDIA they don’t own.)
i.e. The NEWS you GET to SEE & HEAR on TV is the “news” GE/Westinghouse et al…WANT You to SEE and Hear. THEY do NOT want YOU to KNOW Anything about The Cheney Energy Bill.
2. What’s the Cheney Energy Bill about?
ANSWER: The Cheney Energy Bill passed in 2005 (H.R. 6). McCain Voted FOR it. Obama Voted FOR it. Clinton Voted AGAINST it. (i.e. McCain & Obama already SOLD OUT to the nuke industry in 2005. Clinton did not: will not.)
The Cheney Energy Bill decreed that US Taxpayers would REPAY the Nuke Building LOANS that DEFAULT. (The Congressional Budget Office rated the risk of default at 50% or greater.) No new nukes were built for 30 years because the banks wouldn’t loan the money–too risky.
Why Should we build nukes?
ANSWER: There is NO Good Reason for US to build nukes. We NEED De-Centralized, Clean, Renewable, INEXPENSIVE ENERGY Technology. Nukes are NONE OF THE ABOVE. There’s PLENTY of excellent NEW Technology that will fill the bill…given greater INVESTMENT.
Why Shouldn’t we build nukes?
ANSWER: Nukes are OBSOLETE 70-Year OLD Technology. WE already have a 50 YEAR NIGHTMARE Legacy of MILLIONS of TONS and BILLIONS of Gallons of NUKE WASTE all over the USA in leaking tanks, crumbling buildings, contaminated rivers…GOOGLE: Rocky Flats Denver Plutonium & Hanford WA nuclear waste…and READ about the NIGHTMARE that = nuke waste.
ALL the Nuke waste dumps are CLOSED. The nuke waste at the 100-Plus existing reactors has been stored ON-SITE for DECADES. All of them represent Terrorist TARGETS of opportunity & potentially catastrophic accidents.
3. Why isn’t the TV MEDIA providing NEWS coverage of the Rezko trial? Why did NONE of the TV MEDIA even mention last week’s SENSATIONAL Court Testimony that:
Two Witnesses testified that Rezko told them the prosecutor in the Rezko case (Patrick Fitzgerald) was going to be fired to stop the criminal prosecution of Rezko.
ANSWER: GE, Westinghouse, et al = the Corporate Controllers of the Corporate-Controlled MEDIA. They will not be covering NEWS from the Rezko Trial–UNTIL–AFTER Obama gets the Nomination.
The so-called “left wing” & “right wing” MEDIA have ALL been PROMOTING Obama on TV everyday since last November. Their GOAL is to get Obama nominated, THEN Start reporting the REAL News/REAL DIRT the FBI has been gathering on Obama, Rezko, Auichi, Alsammarae for more than 4 years.
5. Here’s some Words the MEDIA says A LOT: Obama hasn’t been VETTED.
QUESTION: WHY Not?? HOW can the “news” MEDIA keep repeating that FACT.. without it ever occurring to them it’s THEIR JOB to VET HIM?
ANSWER: The NEWS MEDIA’S–JOB–isn’t to Report the News; not anymore. Their JOB is to Put out WHATEVER Propaganda their Corporation wants to SELL to the American people…to make them MORE MONEY.
ALL the “faux” “journalists” on MSNBC, et al are now Media “Stars” making $$$Millions per year to Convince YOU of anything their Corporate Masters WANT you to Believe.
QUESTION: Why hasn’t he been VETTED by the Democrat Party Leaders?
ANSWER: MONEY. The Democrat party leaders already KNOW most of the Real News/REAL DIRT the Republican Party will Spring on Obama as soon as he’s nominated, but, a whole lot of them are SELL-OUTS to the same Big Corporations that are running McCain&/Obama for President.
Many of the smaller fry…a whole LOT of the Congress People/SuperDelegates are already bought and paid for.
Obama Formed HIS Own PAC. The military-industrial complex, insurance companies, drug companies etc. already put their cash into his PAC—before he started running. THEN Obama’s PAC made “campaign contributions” to a WHOLE LOT of his fellow Congressmen & Senators/ SUPERDELEGATES.
i.e. THE FIX was IN — BEFORE he even started running.
[You have to greatly admire the extreme fortitude,
Honesty, and GUTS of ALL the DEMOCRATIC CongressPeople/ SUPERDELEGATES who are STILL Standing AGAINST CHENEY/ GE/Westinghouse/their MEDIA].
MOST Americans RECOGNIZE the Republican Party as their ENEMY.
WE the People Threw a WHOLE LOT of those bums OUT in 2006.
WE must now RECOGNIZE the TV MEDIA & Most of the ‘Mainstream MEDIA” as our ENEMIES -operating as the PROPAGANDA TOOLS of their REPUBLICAN Owners.
Millions of us also yelled, phoned, wrote, and emailed Congress & WE succeeded in STOPPING the Dubai Ports Deal.
What YOU can do to STOP The MEDIA SELL-OUTS and the Democrat Party SELL-OUTS from giving Obama the nomination and throwing this election to the Republicans: Phone, fax, email, write, to your Representatives/Senators & SUPERDELEGATES:
*DEMAND they VOTE to Nominate CLINTON*
INFORM them that those who SELL OUT the Democratic Party and the Majority of the population of the United States—by Voting to nominate the FAKE Obama candidate–will be duly noted and thrown out of office at the earliest opportunity.
**DEMAND that they FAIL to nominate
THE Candidate who HAS NOT BEEN VETTED**
*Tell them “The MATH” does NOT Add Up*
WITH two to five times more MONEY than Clinton, and the FULL SUPPORT of–ALL—the TV MEDIA–Obama is less than 1% ahead in the pledged delegate count and the popular vote count–Proving beyond any question that CLINTON is BY FAR the Strongest CANDIDATE: BEST FOR PRESIDENT.
Tell them: The ACTUAL number of VOTES cast by INDIVIDUALS – does NOT correspond to the Pledged Delegate TOTALS, or the popular vote TOTALS given that; the Caucus states do not even have to report ACTUAL Vote Totals; & given the EXTRA Delegates AWARDED in some precincts.
i.e. The “Criteria” by which Obma (Falsely) Claims that Superdelegates voting Clinton in as the nominee…goes against “the will of the people” and “TAKES the Nomination Away” from him is SPECIOUS and FALSE on its Face, and the SuperDelegates know it.
A. The ACTUAL Real PRIMARY Vote Totals ARE a true reflection of the will of the people, and that WILL = Clinton for President.
B. Obama Does Not HAVE the Nomination;
The SuperDelegates can’t TAKE AWAY something Obama does not possess.
Obama has not EARNED or DESERVED the nomination. Clinton EARNED IT: Clinton DESERVES IT. Clinton WILL WIN.
… cut, copy, paste–use any or all of this message, or write your own…AND Send to everyone on your email list & ask THEM to email it to everyone on their email list.
IF Most of the people on your email list…& their email list…WILL do that AND Phone, fax, write, email their Congresspeople & Senators… POST on blogs: Local, State, National–TV “news”, newspapers, radio, colleges–& (posting as much as possible in all the Upcoming PRIMARY States)…
…WE THE PEOPLE can CHANGE the dastardly direction this election is headed:
WE WILL GET the Clintons back in the White House:
RE-GAIN Good Government:
RE-GAIN a better future for our children and grandchildren:
RE-GAIN the Trust and Respect of the rest of the nations and peoples of OUR WORLD…just like WE THE PEOPLE-STOPPED-the Dubai Ports deal.
Post this REAL News everywhere you can:
Obama’s campaign is based on ONE BIG LIE:
*Working across the Aisles to bring
*CHANGE*
OBAMA = NO Experience/NO CHANGE
Obama claims 7 years experience in the Illinois legislature -Working Across the Aisles, Bringing people together to get good CHANGES passed-as exemplified by 26 good bills with his name on them.
A Chicago neewspaper reporter says all 26 bills were passed in ONE Year and they were NOT Obama’s.
http://wweek.com/editorial/3418/10516/
EXCERPTS:
But what’s interesting, and almost never discussed, is that he built his entire legislative record in Illinois in a single year.
Republicans controlled the Illinois General Assembly for six years of Obama’s seven-year tenure.
Then Emil Jones Jr. (became the Senate Majority leader), He became Obama’s kingmaker.
Jones appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.
During his seventh year in the state Senate, Obama…sponsored a whopping 26 bills including many he now cites in his presidential campaign when attacked as inexperienced.
Making CHANGES = ZILCH
INTEGRITY = ZERO
(His book “Audacity …” confirms:
Democrats had Majority Control of the Illinois Senate when those bills were passed. They were passed during his last year in the state Senate.)
Dick Cheney has Pulled Off,
& made US PAY for:
Energy Ripoff # 1: ENRON: Electricity Rates
Energy Ripoff # 2: Oil & Gas: Market Manipulation
Ripoff #3: Iraq War
Let’s ALL Get Together and STOP Cheney’s NEXT Big
Energy Ripoff #4: Nuclear power plants
(SOUND THE ALARM in every City, Town, Village & Farm – the Redcoats are coming! The Redcoats = The MEDIA/ “King George’s SOLDIERS