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In a spasm of botherism, the staff of Morning Joe on MSNBC chose to attack (former) Sen. Barbara Boxer for holding up the pro forma counting of Electoral Votes in 2005, comparing it (superficially) ...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Mon Jan 04, 2021 at 08:58 PM PST
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JUST NOW: A diary appeared about attempt to discredit ES&S competitors. An analysis of the Kentucky election results by Alison Greene on DCRreport.org describes how Mitch McConnell, and several other Republican Senators seem to have won the...
by vigi
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on Tue Dec 22, 2020 at 08:09 AM PST
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Its technically very easy, depending on how secure the equipment is stored when it is not in use. To be effective, the hack would only work on machines that will not produce a record of input from the voter and the final result. Machine like thus are...
by Buster40004
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on Sat Sep 28, 2019 at 04:23 PM PDT
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I am a news junkie. I have been running a news aggregate page on Facebook, on my own no less, for about 7 years. Every day I wake up, look over the news to curate the best news stories for the day. I publish about 10 on the page and in my news...
by Kittencaboodle
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on Wed May 15, 2019 at 09:26 AM PDT
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American citizens DO NOT have a right to vote. It is not part of our national Constitution.
On 21 January 2015 Democratic Congressmen Mark Pocan (WI-02) and Keith Ellison (MN-51) co-sponsored House Joint Resolution 25, Proposing an amendment to the...
by Karen Hedwig Backman
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on Wed Jul 19, 2017 at 01:20 PM PDT
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I was recently made aware of this documentary that I think everyone should see. And I mean everyone, regardless of one ‘s political leanings — the film does not so stridently take sides but rather tries to stay on topic. Even though the film was made a...
by mileRunner
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on Mon May 08, 2017 at 11:26 AM PDT
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Hello: I thought y’all would be interested in this response to my early voting thread at the end of this blog post. Not sure where he gets his 3k number. I believe they are still struggling on with the older Diebold (Premier/ES&S) machines...
by kennedyx
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on Tue Nov 01, 2016 at 07:34 AM PDT
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Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org has discovered a fractional vote counting feature embedded in the Diebold GEMS system that can be used to invisibly, yet radically alter results undetectably!
Back in May she already wrote about it in her website,...
by kenneththeJimb
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on Sun Oct 30, 2016 at 12:23 PM PDT
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Two things happened to me over this past weekend to strengthen my conviction that paper ballots are superior to electronic voting machines. The first was my experience upgrading my cell phone at a local Verizon Wireless store. The second, and more...
by ahl
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on Wed Aug 31, 2016 at 02:31 PM PDT
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Hello, First a little background. I am an absentee voter in San Diego County and was previously a poll worker for several elections in the Diebold voting machine era. I have been associated with the Open Voting Consortium. Note that there is a...
by kennedyx
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on Fri Aug 19, 2016 at 06:48 PM PDT
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Supporters of Hillary Clinton are spewing an enormous but lethal air of confidence going into this year’s general election. Swayed by the increasingly positive polls and enormous organization on part of the Clinton campaign, the Democrats make the...
by DavidDavid12345
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on Wed Aug 03, 2016 at 01:29 PM PDT
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Kayso, this old fart, me, Kangaroo, was one of about 96 Clintonistas chasing about 15 slots for delegates and alternates from Kansas to the Democratic National Convention this year, and, needless to say, old dude didn’t make the cut, so…
We...
by Kangaroo
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on Tue Aug 02, 2016 at 11:29 AM PDT
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Plus: 'Serial child molester' Hastert sentenced; Encouraging green news; And listener calls...
On today's BradCast, following the Northeastern Primaries on Tuesday in PA, CT, MD, DE and RI, the 2016 cycle gets even stranger, if that's even...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 05:42 PM PDT
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(Oh, sure. You thought you’d just roll over this text and ruin the punchline. No way, Jose.) 8 comments
on Mon Apr 25, 2016 at 06:51 PM PDT
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GUEST: John Opdycke of OpenPrimaries.org | PLUS: Prince dead at 57; 'Outrage' over Harriet Tubman; Paper ballots finally return to MD...
On today's BradCast: Tragic breaking news, ridiculous wingnut 'outrage', good news for Maryland voters, and,...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Apr 21, 2016 at 05:58 PM PDT
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GUESTS: TYT's Jordan Chariton, Sputnik's Cassandra Fairbanks in D.C. | PLUS: Results, concerns from weekend's WY Dem caucuses, CO GOP convention...
On today's BradCast, hundreds of demonstrators were arrested today at the nation's Capitol during a...
by TheBradBlog
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on Mon Apr 11, 2016 at 06:11 PM PDT
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(And how did Jim Gilmore 'win' an entire Massachusetts town?!)
On today's BradCast we examine what the big Super Tuesday wins mean, and don't, for both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, as well w
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Mar 02, 2016 at 06:12 PM PST
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GUEST: Journalist and media activist Sue Wilson...
As voters head to the polls in a dozen Super Tuesday states, we cover a number of the problems voters are already reportedly facing on today's B
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Mar 01, 2016 at 04:44 PM PST
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GUEST: Lauren Randall of Sunrun and Alliance for Solar Choice | PLUS: Martin O'Malley, Iowa kingmaker?; Koch Bros. empire built on Nazi money; MORE...
On today's BradCast: How outrageous new fees
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Jan 14, 2016 at 04:36 PM PST
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GUEST: Election integrity watchdog Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org...
Last year ended with a number of voter database breaches -- from the Sanders/Clinton/DNC database kerfuffle to the discovery
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Jan 07, 2016 at 05:51 PM PST
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