New York Times Magazine Covers Problems With E-Voting
This past Sunday, the New York Times Magazine had a pretty jarring image on its cover--a voting booth with an explosion coming out of it and a warning label, "WARNING: Your vote may be lost, destroyed, miscounted, wrongly attributed or hacked." The accompanying story discussed the problems of touch-screen voting at length.
I highly recommend taking the time to read the whole article, but I just want to highlight a section that I found particularly compelling. On top of all of the technical problems that electronic voting machines have, and the near-impossibility of verifying their accuracy, there is also a fundamental issue of the privatization of our elections: "Vendors do not merely sell machines to elections departments. In many cases they are also paid to train poll workers, design ballots and repair broken machines, for years on end." The author also makes an excellent point by comparing this problem to the out-sourcing of military responsibilities in Iraq to private contractors. By handing over the core functions of our government to private companies--whether Blackwater in Iraq or Diebold in Cuyahoga County, OH--we are ceding part of our democracy.
I should also point out that while I was glad to see the New York Times cover this issue last weekend, and I hope that they will continue to do so as the 2008 election heats up, none of the issues with electronic voting that they discuss are particularly new. Bloggers have been covering these problems for years, especially folks like Brad Friedman, and I would encourage you to pay a visit to his analysis of the article as well.
So Where Do We Go From Here?
How do we get Congress to pass new or amend existing legislation to ensure the integrity of the election process?
I remember during the Iraqi election, seeing a report on TV of one election location where the votes were being publicly counted, and recorded on a blackboard. There were several observers, including the media. I couldn't help thinking that at least those voters were sure that their votes were being tabulated correctly.
Assuring voting integrity is do-able--it just needs to "Get Done".
In spite of the rosy statements of Wally O'Dell and his ilk,
the problem with touch-screen machines is that they can be hacked, have been hacked, and will continue to be hacked. Indeed, Diebold actually, in 2001, posted on its own website, a lengthy program entitled "robgeorgia.zip"!!! And, in the following "election," Saxby Chambliss, a nobody from nowhere, defeated Max Cleland for the Senate, and Max was well-loved and a war hero to boot, and Sonny Perdue - a REAL loser, "won" the Governor's chair. In both cases, Chambliss and Perdue were BADLY defeated in the exit polls, just as the early polls said they would be, but the machines said otherwise. Of course, people said it was on account of Rethuglican dirty tricks - but how do you explain the exit polls? Well, they "Explained" those in 2004, too - - - but Georgia happens to be where our daughter lives. She wanted to vote for Kerry, but three times the machine told her she had voted for Bush. Now, as it happens, you have not seen anger until you have seen that lady angry! She came out of the booth, and told the official "Either fix that &&&^^^^%^%&^%^%%^$%$%^&(* machine, or take it out of service! I want to vote for who I want to vote for, not for somebody the machine tells me to vote for!" Thy tried to "Shush" her, but she doesn't shush. So finaally, they promised her that they'd take that machine out of service, and let her vote on another machine that duly told her she had voted for Kerry. "But." she asks, "How do I know that they really DID take that machine off line, and how do I know that my vote was counted as I cast it?" I told her about the Chambliss- Perdue fiasco, and explained to her that Georgia voting was hopelessly corrupt, and that it was up to her and people like her to get it repaired before the next election I don't think she's had much luck.
Use the Patriot Act.
The same people who created the Patriot Act, can and should be held to the same standards as every other person in America.
The act of refusing to prosecute high crimes and misdemeanors, because it might hurt the ambitions of a person or political party, for any reason, is a matter of national security and should be considered an act of terrorism.
A Judge once told me, just before I was sentenced to 30 days in jail, that by throwing away the support collection paperwork I felt was redundant, I was attacking the very fabric of our system. I thought it was a clerical error.
What crimes will the next Judiciary Committee Chairman forgive, for the sake of profit and gain?
I've got news for you Judge Jan Plumadore of the Fourth Judicial District in New York. When you sentenced me to 30 days in 1984, you talked about damaging the very fabric our nation depended on to survive. In case you were confused, this is what it actually looks like.
At this point, the problem isn't just Bush. But maybe we can use the tools Bush and Congress provides us with.
I wonder what Homeland Security would say if we reported Mr. Conyers as a domestic terrorist? Anybody know the actual definition?
OT: Yesterday, the 500th IGTNT Diary Was Posted
501st IGTNT Diary: Major Michael Green and Sgt. James Healey Mourning the loss and remembering:
Two more bright lights extinguished...
Kucinich Granted Recount
Kucinich Paying for Recount in NH:
Judge Won't Inquire Into CIA Tapes Case. Oh, If Only...
Oh, If Only We had Another Branch of Government to provide Oversight of the Exective... Wait.... We....DO have another branch of government whose duty it is to provide oversight.... So, where are they? Seems they're MIA.
186, 145 signatures on Representative Wexler's Petition.
I was just looking for that very article!
I guess it's just one more thing bought and paid for!!!!
It seems that "wrong" is the mode of our ways now. I guess I would be totally amazed if just ONE thing was handled in the "right" way!
This is a living nightmare that just gets worse each day!
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I call 'em the "NOT SEE" Party
I call 'em the "NOT SEE" Party.
Out of sight, out of mind...
And many of them are out of their minds for coosing to "NOT SEE"!
This is unbelievable!
Again, Kucinich will excluded from debates, although initially invited.
This is despicable -- so, now the MEDIA will control the candidates that Americans will be able to hear or not hear!!! I am just sick!
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The fix is well in...
It amazes me that people still believe that they live in a representative democracy, or that any child can still grow up to become President without first selling his or her soul to corporate America.
Yes children, the fix is well in.
Impeachment: I don't care if they try and fail. I only care if they fail to try.
I'm with you, Max1!
As you say the "fix" is in -- following the mode of Hitler and his "fix" on the media.
Unless there is Impeachment, nothing will change. Things will just continue in the same course, I fear, no matter who gets in. This is to say nothing of the fact that IMPEACHMENT IS AND HAS BEEN IN ORDER FOR A LONG TIME NOW. THE CONSTITUTION SHOWS US CLEARLY THAT IMPEACHMENT IS IN ORDER.
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Another election fraud article,
Big freakin deal! Everyone knows the election system is rigged. So whatcha gonna do 'bout it? Fritter away more damn time having tea and crumpets with nasty Nancy?
Talkin' the talk, but not walkin' the talk. Your olive branches no longer impress m and it appears as though a lot of people have already come to that conclusion.
Chase away other voices (sic) on this blog through strong arm tactics will eventually limit the diversity and strength.
Many voices have already left. What are you going to do when every one leaves and you start posting to yourself?
You'd Think The "Majority Party" Would've Taken the Ball & Run
with it by now wouldn't you? It's just mindboggling that the Dems continue to act like the minority party while they're in the majority. What's even worse is the the repubs still seem to have the upper hand as the "minority party"--because the Democrats have consistently caved in to the bullies.
I've been wondering if the Democrats actually just don't have a clue as to how to actually "Lead" ?
Dems— Here’s a clue:
Here’s Another Clue:
But let’s not forget this Leadership Quality that seems to be universally missing in our current “leaders”
BTW thank you Reed, for giving me the perfect opportunity to get on my Soapbox about the Democrats failure of leadership to date.
Thank you unspun.
:)
Well, looks like everything is Okay. We (the Dems) are leading the way, showing everyone hpw a responsible congress conducts oversight.
After all, these people were only furrenners.
Oh BTW, Where's that freakin subpoena vote as promised?
Oh yeah, that's right, you guys are too busy funding the
waroccupation.It is so...
Utterly ridiculous that we have to discuss this eight full years after the debacle in Florida and a subsequent appointed president whom I’ve never recognized as President. Until America cares I guess it’s on to the slippery slope of apathy and the brand of Fascism we have been seeing in the interim. It’s so hard not to get disgusted.
I Thought When The Dems Got the Majority in 2006
...they would have made it a priority to Fix the broken election system along with fixing the broken government. Apparently all they care about is the next election, and given the fact that the electronic voting machines still are "broken"--it all seems kind of self-destructive wishful thinking on their part, IMHO.
"We are Change" meets Conyers...
"
Funny, 'cuz I ain't see no oath to "WIN" "FIXED" elections, no oath for health care, no oath to replace judges, no oath for world peace. Are those da people you wish to follow, Congressman? People who make "other" oaths; Oaths of silence, oaths to the president, oaths to the Party? Hell, there are so many oaths right now, everything is "OATH-ISH" but not sacred because the Golden Calf comes first.
A reminder for those that have forgotten their place:
TITLE 5 > PART III > Subpart B > CHAPTER 33 > SUBCHAPTER II > § 3331
NOWHERE does this Oath address "WINNING" elections for your Party, yet Congressman, you seem to think it does. How very "EVASIVE" of you.
We've been here, Congressman. Yet you haven't meet us half way. How can we even entertain a belief that you care to debate with anyone? You don't even do it here on your own blog. That's why I'm pissed. Your silence IS complicity AND a betrayal of any trust I had in you. I honestly think that you do not care about the America you leave, even for your boys.
Congressman,
So the president IS above the law?
He is... when YOU don't hold him TO that law.
And if the president's job description includes, to ensure that all laws be faithfully executed, what does it make him when he orders the laws to NOT be faithfully executed?
(All emboldening mine)
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I M P E A C H
or RESIGN !!!
Priceless Max
absolutely priceless.
I noticed the incongruous tap dancing. I'll meet with anyone in the country to discuss impeachment, except Ray McGovern and Cindy Sheehan ... I used to shine the light is dark places, but now I won't rock the boat.....This administration is criminal, but I am not going to do anything about it. We need to win the election, but you are failing to win the people. I don't care what the polls say, you guys are going down.
Also of note, who gets more excited and aggitated? The person on the defensive, because there is no reasonable excuse. As a matter of fact, impeachment just might seal the GOP party's complete destruction and create greater success on election day, then what you guys think you are going to achieve. Remember, you let Rove, Libby, Gonzales, Rumsfeld, Meirs, Bolton, Delay......etc. slip through the reins of justice. Now they are free to reek havoc on the election results......Oh yeah, we still haven't fixed that either.
"I Was For Impeachment Before I Was Against It"
or "I decided that Party comes before Country, just like my republican colleagues".
Or maybe, "I was for Impeachment before I even knew of half of the criminal offenses that bush & Co have committed, but now--I don't care what they do, as long as you fools will forget I said bush should be impeached & vote for Dems anyway"
Or even, "I'll say whatever I have to to get elected, then do as I please once you suckers fall for the BS...."
Oh, and, "You only have to look at the record of the 110th Congress with its Democratic Majority to see what important work We've accomplished because we didn't impeach... OH, Wait---forget about that last one." Just keep believing the campaign rhetoric, and then keep giving us a pass when we don't do anything but cave-in to bush after the election..."
Pick one of the above arguments, any one, or make up some other baloney to excuse why the Democrats have decided, along with bush, that the Constitution, and the Citizens who elected them just don't matter to them... But keep those votes and those dollars coming in--suckers...
Ha, ha! Yep, they've got 101 excuses in their attempt to
explain to us how we haven't been "suckered."
It's more like "Shut up and send us money, suckers!"
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wexler on the House floor tonight
Dear Friends,
This evening, I am taking the floor of the House of Representatives to strongly reassert my call for hearings on the Articles of Impeachment of Vice President Cheney previously introduced by Dennis Kucinich.
Please watch it on CSPAN – I should be taking the floor tonight after the last vote, between 7-9PM Eastern
Rep. Wexler Update on Impeachment Movement
Other goodies about what you can do to help at the link too.
Yay, Alma!!!!!
Went there, posted -- whoopee -- he's a fighter like Kucinich!!!!
P.S. I should only hope you could take the floor afterwards! LOL. ;)
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
LOL
I hadn't thought about how that would sound. I bet they'd have me in shackles within minutes.
Probably worse --
tasered first!!
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Thanks for the heads up on this!
Is that at the same time as the Nevada debate?
Here's a quiz for you today!
How best would you describe the following emoticon??????
P.S. I will be grading responses -- ;) !
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Looks like
Bush and Congress. All those little Dems on their knees, doing Bushs' bidding.
Very good, Alma!
You may now go to the head of the class!!!!
;)
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What Alma Said
It also makes me think of how our "representatives" expect us to keep viewing them, in spite of their multiple broken promises and failures. They apparently think they can keep promising, not delivering, and that we'll keep cheering.
You, too, Unspun!
Please join Alma at the head of the class!
;)
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hah!
Like thats gonna happen. You would think that they would remember that they work for us, not the other way around.
I love your post above Tahoe's congress slave emoticon. My sentiments exactly unspun.
It's a 'Schools of Character' classroom.
In oder to create and maintain a permanent majority, or Thousand Year Reich, the forces of Fascism have to look at not only the here and now, they must also prepare the next generations of Not See's.
To accomplish this, a nationwide effort has been created to program our children so they will embrace the world of blind obedience. Thousands of public schools boards have signed on to participate in this program. They are often referred to as 'Schools of Character'.
When ABC/Disney inundated the public schools with their bogus fraudumentary "Pathway to 9/11" or something like that, the networking ability of the scools of character program allowed them to influence the minds of millions of students with their version of unreality simultaneously.
Many of these children will be voting in the 2010 election.
That there emoticon, is a public school classroom.
The Opus Dei people are the inspiration, Barbara and Neil Bush are the implementers. After all, there's nobody better to promote character in America's children, than a man who's been accused of stealing $100 million, and a Mommy who viewed the suffering after Karina, and joked about it.
O.K., Mark,
Please go to the head of a REAL classroom!
I don't know why, but some reason what you said reminded me of some of the murals in the Denver International Airport (not far from a huge detention camp, I understand). These murals are so disturbing, sick and a distortion of how we perceive ourselves -- I don't know if they are supposed to be the "future" or what. All I can say is that I can't believe that this art is part of an airport in Amerika. (But then, there is so much I find difficult to believe these days as being a part of Amerika.)
See here for some of the pictures. Note particularly, the children in the murals (from the bottom right side up three rows -- the last two in row three, the last two or three in row four -- click on each mural to enlarge).
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
And Bush's moral lessons of 911
Bush Delivers Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia
even though we've known since 2002 that it's
Official: 15 of 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudi
and that
German trial hears how Iranian agent warned US of impending al-Qaida attack
So, the message to our kids is to punish the country that tries to help, and reward the country that doesn't.
This is after
U.S. House votes to ban aid to Saudi Arabia
Chairman Conyers, there is NOTHING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that will inspire you to uphold the Constitution and IMPEACH? Not even THIS ONE MORE BLATANT ACT OF TYRANNY?
Conyers' moral lesson to our children:
Reward the people who reward the people who want to hurt us, and punish the people who want Congress to punish the people who reward the people who reward the people who want to hurt us.
I think even a 4 year old can understand the difference between right and wrong, Chairman.
We are right - you, Pelosi, Bush and Cheney are wrong.
Period.
Apparently the Chairman
couldn't "B.S. in the parking lot" because he had to hurry back to the B.S. in Washington.
His "official" B.S. speech on impeachment sounds a lot like the "official" B.S. coming from Bush and Cheney on 911 and the illegal U.S. occupation of Iraq - all attempts to sell their B.S. to the citizens of this country.
It's like good politician/bad politician, similar to good cop/bad cop - we have Democrats like Conyers and Waxman who worked to earn the trust of the people, and Republicans like Delay and Cunningham to lose the trust of the people. 2006 was the year for Dems to end the corruption - only, they don't really want to, they just want to keep playing this political game with the voters to maintain power and/or money.
Allowing the lies, theft, and death of innocents is preferential to political risk of exposing their own complicity.
The reason why the Dem "leaders" don't want to hold impeachment hearings is that the truth about them will come out, possibly costing them the election.
Thing is, it's already costing them. And like someone said in this video, protecting tyrants is tyranny.
We won't forget...
It ain't easy gentrifying gangsta's, slackers, and cockroaches.
The biggest impediment to creating the United States of Disney, are the dinosaurs who insist on maintaining the rights outlined in that Goddamned piece of paper called the Constitution.
As more and more American families become generationally educated, and associate with other like-minded individuals of the educated persuasion exclusively, they begin to lose empathy toward other citizens, who don't feel the peer pressure associated with the increasing educational and social ambitions of the learning class.
Some people chase the carrot their entire lives, and never see the stick that ensures the distance between the two will never be breached. Others get off the merry-go-round and go fishing.
But the ambitious ones want to go fishing too. The difference is, they want the slackers to bait their hook and gut the fish after taking them to the best "secret fishin' hole". Of course, for the ambitious elite to go fishing, it requires a camp on the lake, resorts to golf at, and picturesque viewsheds to make them forget the environmental damage their ambition causes.
America is filled with dirty, smog filled, former auto-making manufacturing cities, like Detroit or Flint, Michigan. How do you get independant minded, union represented, uneducated factory workers, to lower their standards and accept a life of servitude as a chambermaid, waiter, caddy, or master fishbaiter?
Looking at it from the perspective of an enviro-state eco-tourism developer, Michigan is a goldmine. There's like a zillion lakes, with 2 zillion acres of waterfront enviro-state opportunities. A literal playground for the rich and famous, waiting to be packaged and sold to the highest bidder.
The election of 2006 didn't go as planned. When the Senate went to the Dems too, the process of allowing our individual rights to be taken away, as Repugs accepted all of the blame, was thwarted. That doesn't mean their dream to reinvent the basis of our country ended. It simply forced them to adapt to a new reality.
I would be willing to bet that Mr. Conyers personal investments involve waterfront property that can only be properly developed, if the individual rights of the indigenous inhabitants are eliminated. If we hadn't given them the Senate AND the House, Mr. Conyers would still be talking about impeachment, as we watch eco-tourism developers teaming up with fascists to drive out the trailer parks in Michigan.
The dream is to create the United States of Disney. To do that, America needs to drop the whole individual rights concept.
IMO, Mr. Conyers probably has a lot of skeletons in the real-estate eco-tourism closet, just like Ms. Pelosi's husbands, San Fran waterfront investments.
I "believe", this is 100% theory, John won't help protect America or the Constitution, because it might impact the future maximization of his investments in the eco-tourism industry.When the citizens of Michigan are gentrified (desperate) enough, they'll accept more freedom losses, for the sake of "environmentally responsible" economic development.
When they get skinny enough, they'll be happy to become master fishbaiters. John will smirk all the way to his offshore bank, as environmentally sensitive waterfront property become condos and high end retail outlets for the world's environmentally appreciative investor class.
At least that's the way it's done up here in the Adirondacks. Human nature being what it is, it's always about money. They all wanna be Donald Trump.
Looks Like We've Been "Punk'd"
& I don't much like that. Well, I'm off to vote now. My good friend Joe LIEberman just called asking me to vote for his BFF, Crazy John.
Yuck
and I thought the call from Romney was bad!
I spoke too soon
Just got my call from Holy Joe.
"HE WHO CONTROLLS THE COUNT..."
That was then, when Stalin was in charge. Today, that old creed has morphed into the concept of not allowing the voters to be fully informed WHILE Corporatizing the private count of the electorate.
THE AMERICAN DUH(!)-MOCK-RA-"NOT SEE" SYSTEM
NBC un-plugs Kucinich from Presidential debate
HOW IS ANY OF THIS EVEN REPRESENTATIVE OF AMERICA, ANYMORE?
CONGRESSMAN,
WHAT DO YOU SUPPORT AND DEFEND, IF NOT THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS?
The rights of the Party? Have you morphed into ar GOP-er... A LOYALIST!
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I M P E A C H
or RESIGN !!!
I fired off the following letter to the "Tennessean" yesterday
If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?
If NBC, ABC and the Des Moines Register continue to deny Dennis Kucinich a forum during the primaries, will the American people ever know that there was one Democratic candidate who favored immediate troop withdrawal, universal single-payer health care or laws to penalize employers for hiring illegal aliens?
If you don’t vote for what you truly believe in on February 5th, you won’t get a chance to vote for it in November.
I don't know if they'll ever print it, because it throws mud in the eye of corporate media, but like so many of us, I thought I had to do something.
The thing is, if they refuse to print it, then will the people of Middle Tennessee ever know that anyone ever objected to the under-handed tactics of NBC, ABC and the Des Moines Register? Will they continue to believe that Dennis Kucinich is simply a "fringe" candidate with no new ideas and no chance of winning the White House?
The control of the media is so critical to the power of fascist governments that it can not be underestimated. If a million people march on Washington to protest the war, and no one ever reports it, did it really happen? When the histories are written, will the majority of Americans ever know that anyone ever protested Administration policy?
If the candidate who favors universal single-payer health care is denied a forum to speak, will the possibility of universal, single-payer health care even be an issue in 2008?
And where is the solidarity of the Democratic Party? Why hasn't Clinton, Obama and Edwards refused to participate in a debate that has re-written the rules to exclude Kucinich? Don't they realize how this decision effects ALL debate? Or maybe, they're okay with the idea or corporate media control, as Pelosi was 'okay' with the idea of waterboarding unarmed prisoners. After all, they're the annointed 'frontrunners', despite the fact that not one of them will commit to immediate troop withdrawal, universal health care for all Americans and refuse to support impeachment.
These are the 'Agents of Change' in the Democratic Party? Pleeease. Elect any of them and I guarantee you eight more years of Republican Lite...
It would be worse than re-electing John 'Calculator Boy' Conyers to another term in Congress.
Impeachment: I don't care if they try and fail. I only care if they fail to try.
Good for you, Ishmael!
What has been done to Kucinich via the Media is, to me, symbolic and needs to be STOPPED NOW -- we need to do everything we can to show the Media that they do not have the right per journalistic ethics, or just plain moral ethics, to violate the rights of American people by precluding them from hearing or seeing any viable presidential candidate. They DO NOT have the right to determine electability by selectivity of WHO they choose to be seen or heard.
For those able, please help Dennis in this battle.
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
yopp.
I'm going to insert a code to turn off the italics here. (/em)
Did it work?
And it continues...
Judge backs refusal to put Kucinich on ballot
Damned be the establishment!
That's just more disgusting BS, Max1!!!!
There's no law that says you can't write him in in the primaries!
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
OK folks
So we have another rigged election!
BIG Fu---ng deal! We in our Banana Republik should be used to it by now.
How many of you STILL believe that we have ANY representation in Washington! HOW MANY ?
With the ghost of Jeff Gannon still wandering around the halls of congress, smelling like cheap latex, “Fudge” and cream, still trying it’s best to find that elusive “Third Eye”. Why would you as a patriotic citizen, a person that CARES about their country, knowing FULL well that you are being held for fools ,DAILY even try to persuade these TRAITORS to do what they were elected to do?
Every single one of them KNOWS that they are so deep in the shit, that there is no other direction than the same. Tar and Feathering, like in the old days is far to good for them. They need to be (Fill in The Blanks)
Consequent is what we need to be. The longer we as a Folk wait, the harder it will be to purge our nation of this catastrophic disease.
Do you want a war with Iran? Do you want to send more of OUR sons and Daughters off to the killing Fields?
Do you actually want lo listen to MORE BULLSHIT coming from those lying bastards mouths?
Voting Machine problems!!!!!!! You PISS ME OFF so bad I could kick somebody’s ASS!!!!!!!What the fuck have we been telling you about!!!!!!!!FOR YEARS!!!!!!
BUT it’s just like everything else that we have been discussing about HERE on this very blog, we talk about the problems, offer solutions. And the Good Congressman has an EPIFINY SIX months later.
And the funny part is, he discovers ALL of HIS great IDEAS in a fucking right wing newspaper!!!
KUDOS HERR KONYERS! You deserve an OS K ER
Homeland Security is really wrapping things up -- tightly!
You can never let it be said Bush, et al., aren't busy with their agenda -- POLICE STATE.
The "violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism" Act has a new target to work on -- Universities.
So, as you can see, "they" are very busy chipping and chipping away at the rights of this society. They don't have a problem with multi-tasking either, as Bush beats the drums for an attack on Iran.
The next thing you know, they will have programs for Americans to spy on each other -- that is, if they don't already!!!
We are getting some fun phone calls in
Michigan, this primary eve.
It starts out asking if you know that we are at war with violent islamic extremists, and that some people don't even vote.
Then it goes on to tell you that there isn't a Democratic primary in Michigan this year and that Democrats, Independents, and Republicans are all voting in the Republican primary.
And geez, they don't even tell you who they are, or who is paying for the call.
Boy, I didn't even get a Robocall...
First the candidates diss us by not coming to MI, and now I can't even get a loony robocall ;-)
The Robocalls, the Missing Dems on the Ballot…
Only the republicans (oh, and Mike Gravel) campaigning in MI… So MI Dems can vote for Clinton, Kucinich, Dodd (who already dropped out), or that all-time favorite: “Uncommitted”…
Sigh, and now there’s this: One Vendor’s Error in Programming
Oh, and then add in the fact that the DNC has already decided to strip MI of its delegates… BTW, wanna vote on whose campaign we think sent out that robocall?
I bet you didn't get the personal call from Mitt either.
First thing this morning while we were still in bed, Mitt called. It started out Hello Wayne, this is Governor Mitt Romney. Sounded like a coffee commercial, the voice that is. Needless to say, we just let the machine record it, and didn't bother to get up to talk with him.
McCains about killed off all the forests from the amount of campaign literature he's sent us. We were getting 3 of the same one every day. From his literature, I found out that Romney is even worse than Granholm. I'll be so glad when tomorrows over!
I bet the candidates will be on pins and needles waiting for those hand counts. And the media, they'll love being able to go on for longer during the wait. Gives them more to speculate on without knowing anything.