Archive for the 'Voting Rights' Category

What A Republican Racist Looks Like in 2007

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

They’ll be going back underground soon.
I found this while looking for a better version of the Artur Davis/McClellan session.
Watch the white racist squirm like a stuck pig.

Rep Artur Davis Questions John Tanner In Judiciary Hearing
WOW! I just Googled John Tanner racist.
Did I mention I HATE RACISTS?

Apologetics 101 By Billy (Bubba) Bob

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

If I made up an example like this to illustrate how the Bush Lovers use equivocation to apologize (escape blame) for supporting Bush…no one would believe me. Enter our newbie, Bob S.
We need to get a common dictionary, because I dont agree that I was an apologist for the Bush administration.
In all [...]

Hacking Democracy

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Before convicted criminal, Republican congressman, Bob Ney went to prison, he pushed the “Help America Vote Act (HAVA)” through congress under the false premise that it would help standardize the way America votes and come into compliance with the Federal Supreme court decision to break precedence and overrule states rights in the 2000 election contest [...]

Larry’s Pick: Losing Your Democracy Can Be Funny

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

This video from The Onion proves it. You’ll notice the voting machine in the piece is the very one most Utahns will be using until we get informed enough to toss them in the Great Salt Lake and save millions of dollars in the process.
I can dream.
This is not the first time Diebold machines have [...]

Were the Polls Wrong in NH? Or Did Obama Get Diebolded?

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Nothing can be proven, and if past elections are any indication, nothing will ever be proven. It seems that 81 percent of the votes in the New Hampshire primary were counted electronically. The counts were done on Diebold (now known as Premier Election Solutions) op-scan machines– the exact same ones that were hacked [...]

Rich’s Pick: NYT Takes On the E-Voting Fiasco

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

In a thoroughly-researched lead article in tomorrow’s New York Times Magazine, Clive Thompson asks the most important questions about 2008:
What happens if the next presidential election is extremely close and decided by a handful of votes cast on machines that crashed? Will voters accept a presidency decided by ballots that weren’t backed up on paper [...]

Don’t Vote on Election Day, February 5

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

The Iowa caucuses are on January 3. The New Hampshire primary is scheduled for January 8. I voted in the Utah primary today. Yes, they are already mailing out vote-by-mail ballots.
OK, you can vote on Election Day if you want to, but why wait? Register for vote-by mail. To cast [...]

Bush v. Gore: A Judicial Coup d’Etat

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

This is a refresher for those of us who went into shock when George W. Bush lost the 2000 presidential election and went to the White House anyway. I think we can be forgiven, given our state of mind at the time, for not following all the details of the U.S. Supreme Court’s judicial [...]

Senator Bennett Serves Up Plate of Red Herring at Hearing

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Senator Robert Bennett used his opportunity to speak yesterday about election integrity to recount silly stories about “voter fraud.” Something the present administration has been trying to trump up to their advantage if it becomes a feasible way to prove an election was stolen from them. Bob was a loyal soldier when he said these [...]

AN OPEN LETTER TO BILL GATES CONCERNING VOTING MACHINES

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Sorry for screaming, but since Lt. Governor Gary continues to lie and say that he couldn’t stop the only statewide deployment in America of Diebold voting machines that have been proven to be hackable by one of our own citizens, (can you name him?), and costing us largely untold, (by Utah’s media), millions of dollars, [...]

Ban Paperless Voting

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

This is important. Our elected representatives need to get behind H.R. 811, the “Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007.” This bill is sponsored by Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), has 216 co-sponsors and stands an excellent chance of passing the House of Representatives.
H.R.811 (PDF)
Title: To amend the Help America Vote Act [...]

The Reform that Makes All Others Possible

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

I’m pleased to see that Congress has scheduled (and taken the first of) votes on a series of measures designed to drain the swamp of corruption created by Republicans over the last few years. It’s a move in the right direction. Since 1995, Lobbyists have made a fortune for their industries by writing [...]

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