Elections are being held in some 13 states (Arkansas, California, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia) today. Lord help us.
A reminder how helpful screenshots of election results taken from official websites on election night and in the days following, can potentially be, can be found in our recent exclusive on the still unexplained results from the Monroe County, Arkansas, May 18th primary, where thousands of votes “disappeared” in the days after the election.
If you don’t know how to take a screenshot, here’s the quick primer (at least on a PC): While viewing the page in question, hold the ALT button and hit the PrtScreen button. Then paste the ensuing clipboard graphic into a graphics program, and save with a filename that includes both the date and time the shot was taken. Hopefully someone else can explain how to do that on a Mac in comments.
Of course, as you hear or read of problems at the polls throughout the day, feel free to email us with details and URLs, and we’ll do our best to look into it.
On the more-political-less-Election-Integrity side of the equation, The BRAD BLOG’s resident attorney/historian-in-chief Ernest Canning has offered a number of recent, noteworthy articles on matters related to the ballot out here in CA, perhaps they’re worth re-linking this morning. Of particular interest — even to readers across the country — should be the top item below, concerning Prop 16, and the deceptive way in which a huge corporate power is attempting to deceive voters with the use of millions of dollars to support a phony campaign.
For that matter, in reviewing the articles below, they each speak to one common element: the outlandish power that money holds, now more than ever, when it comes to our “democracy”…
5/9/10: Prop 16 ‘Power Play’: A Private Utility’s Assault on Publicly-Owned Electricity Providers
4/27/10: Meg Whitman, Wall Street, ‘Billionaire Sociopaths’ and the Media ‘Substance Deficit’
5/31/10: Billionaire vs. Billionaire: Propaganda and Race in CA’s GOP Gubernatorial Primary5/16/10: Winograd Misses ‘Debate’ Chance to Slam Harman’s Dissembling, Conflicts-of-Interest
