Topics

[www.bradblog.com]

 [A href="http://www.bradblog.com"]www.bradblog.com[/A]

  A recent Zogby poll documents ground breaking information on the attitudes of American voters toward electronic voting. They are quite clear in the belief that the outcome of an entire election can be changed due to flaws in computerized voting machines. At a stunning rate of 92%, Americans insist on the right to watch their votes being counted. And, at an overwhelming 80%, they strongly object to the use of secret computer software to tabulate votes without citizen access to that software.

 

At the end of May, someone at Discover Vancouver posted hate messages in my name.  It wasn't me.  It saddens me that someone would be on the receiving end of a racist attack by a malicious coward posting in my name. Again, I know it is easy to delete that crap, whatever statements are made to the contrary .  Not sure what malicious intentions are behind keeping it there. I can't post at Discover Vancouver, since my IP was blocked long ago. For the record, nothing posted in my name since it was blocked, was me.  I will enquire with lawyers on how to correct this situation.  

The cockroach, the cockroach,

he's stumbling on the floor.

'Cause he's got no, 'cause he's missing

dope to smoke no more

Deleting is easy.  You know that.  I know that.

Neither Christina Aquilera nor Paris Hilton have made any public statements about [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"][A href="http://www.bradblog.com"]these articles[/A][/FONT]

[[FONT color=#0000bf]IT'S INCREDIBLE -- THE DNC FINALLY SHOWED SOME BACKBONE! Miracles do happen![/FONT]]

[DIV class=document][FONT color=#0000bf]IT'S INCREDIBLE -- THE DNC FINALLY SHOWED SOME BACKBONE!  Miracles do happen![/FONT]

[DIV class=document]

[DIV class=document]DNC Voting Rights Institute on CA-50 Special Election

[P class=document]

 [P class=document]For several weeks since the June 6th Special Election in California’s 50th Congressional District there have been reports of election irregularities. The DNC Voting Rights Institute (“VRI”) has been monitoring the developments since Election Day and has raised a number of concerns regarding new and disturbing information.

 [P class=document]First and foremost is the fact that any election where there are allegations of machine tampering, break downs in chain of custody, security breaches and other such irregularities must be taken seriously. There are several facts in this race that raise very deep concerns.

 [P class=document]On the facts:

 [P class=document]1. We know for a fact that San Diego County election officials have admitted that a number of the voting machines were taken home in violation of the federal security regulations and guidelines and that a number of the machines showed evidence of tampering (broken seals, which should also have immediately disqualified those machines from use according to state laws implemented in just the last several months in response to new severe vulnerabilities discovered Diebold's optical-scan and touch-screen voting systems.)

 [P class=document]2. We know that under state and federal guidelines, any such breach of security seals or the new "secure storage" requirements for these machines and their memory cards should have immediately disqualified those machines from use in the election for the reason that they became effectively decertified for use upon such security and chain of custody violations.

 [P class=document]3. We also know that both the Diebold optical-scan and touch-screen (DRE) machines have been proven to be vulnerable to tampering in test after test by industry experts, including a team of computer scientists and security experts convened by California's Secretary of State in response to recent revelations concerning the hack ability of Diebold voting systems.

 [P class=document]4. We know that serious security issues and efforts by Diebold to obfuscate problems with their hardware and software led California’s former Democratic Secretary of State to decertify Diebold touch-screen systems in 2004, only to have the Republican Secretary who succeeded him reinstitute the machines over the objections of scores of computer scientists and experts
and hundreds of election integrity advocates.

 [P class=document]The San Diego County election official responsible for administrating post-election manual vote counts has given three different arbitrary cost estimates for conducting the hand count. The quoted fees are as much as six times the costs estimates for similar hand counts in surrounding counties. The estimates portray the expense of a manual vote count to be cost prohibitive.

 [P class=document]This is no longer about whether or not Busby or Bilbray won the election on June 6th. This is about the importance of verifying the facts related to election and voting machine irregularities in this race and the need to ensure an accurate count of all votes cast in this election so that the electorate may have confidence in the announced results in future elections.

 [P class=document]The VRI will continue to monitor facts as they become available and will call for a swift and verifiable "manual count" of all 150,000 ballots cast in California’s 50th District’s "bellwether" June 6th special election in order to ensure the integrity of November 7th general elections and the overall integrity of our country’s voting systems in this still-untested age of computerized voting.

 [P class=document]Greg Moore is director of the DNC's Voting Rights Institute.

 

[[FONT color=#0000bf]The BRAD BLOG[/FONT]]

 [DIV class=ItemHeadline][FONT color=#0000bf][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/"]FIRST RFK JR. VOTING MACHINE WHISTLEBLOWER LAWSUIT NOW FILED IN FEDERAL COURT! NEW DETAILS![/A][/FONT]

[DIV class=ItemSubHeadline][FONT color=#0000bf]Attorney Papantonio on Mike Malloy Show: 'We're gonna shut down some of these companies'![/FONT]

[DIV class=ItemSubSubHeadline][FONT color=#0000bf]Excoriates 'Indolent Democrats' and 'Lazy Media' for Not Taking Action; Lauds BRAD BLOG for Putting Issue on 'Radar Screen'...[/FONT][/DIV][!-- Print the time the article was posted --][!-- The article content --][!-- [div class="post-content"] --] [A href="http://www.bradblog.com/Audio/MikeMalloy_MikePapantonio_071206.mp3"][FONT color=#0000bf][img hspace=6 src="http://www.bradblog.com/Images/MikePapantonio_ThePapAttack.jpg" align=right vspace=3 border=0][/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf]The first of several federal whistleblower qui tam (fraud) suits have now been filed against one of America's major electronic voting machine companies, [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/"][FONT color=#0000bf]The BRAD BLOG[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf] can now report.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]Florida attorney Mike Papantonio who, along with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. hosts [/FONT][A href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/"][FONT color=#0000bf]Ring of Fire[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf], weekends on [/FONT][A href="http://www.airamericaradio.com/"][FONT color=#0000bf]Air America Radio[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf], was a guest on Mike Malloy's radio program last night. [Complete audio is available at bottom of this article.] He discussed the upcoming whistleblower suits that he and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are filing against several of the voting machine companies. Pap was loaded for bear.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]During the interview, he gave several new details on the federal fraud suits now being filed, which include several whistleblower plaintiffs whose stories were originally reported here at [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/"][FONT color=#0000bf]The BRAD BLOG[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf], as mentioned last week in a [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3023"][FONT color=#0000bf]quick item here[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf], with some fresh details of our own. Pap reported last night that the "dream team of lawyers" they've assembled to take on these evil, irresponsible, anti-American companies includes a bunch of those who took on the tobacco companies in a successful quarter billion dollar suit — so they're not likely easily intimidated, we'd think.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]Papantonio is a senior partner at Levin Papantonio Thomas Mitchell Echsner & Proctor, P.A., a Pensacola lawfirm. ([/FONT][A href="http://www.levinlaw.com/"][FONT color=#0000bf]website here[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf]) RFK Jr. is also "of counsel" for this firm.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]Speaking of the level of fraud to be revealed by the suits, which must be sealed by law for 60 days as the Attorney General decides if they will join the complaint, Papantonio told Malloy: "When you hear the details, when you hear the caliber of the fraud... you... it'll make Americans feel like they're living in a damned banana republic, a third world country. I have never heard such outrageous facts."[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]"And you know what?" he continued, "We've had our investigators look at it. We verified everything. And when you hear it, you're gonna say, 'Not in America.' ...Bad news is: Yeah, it is in America."[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]The fraud suits, Papantonio said, are "a way to get at their money, and that's the only thing these people understand."[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]"At the end of the day, we're gonna shut down some of these companies," Papantonio said. "Some day these hacks are gonna be across the table from me, and they're gonna have to answer the questions that nobody else has been able to ask them."[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]Pap excoriated the DNC, "the indolent Democrats and the lazy media," for not participating in any of this, and decried the fact that he and RFK Jr. were essentially forced to take action on their own, given the Dems' failure to do anything.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]He also spoke of the voting machine "sleepovers" about which we've been reporting here in detail of late. As well, he had several kind words for this website and several other election integrity groups. "Unless you had these organizations out there like Black Box Voting or BRAD BLOG, people like that, paying attention to this, this wouldn't even be on the radar screen," he said.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]You can listen to the entire segment in full right here:[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]– [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/Audio/MikeMalloy_MikePapantonio_071206.mp3"][FONT color=#0000bf]Mike Papantonio on the Mike Malloy Show[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf], 7/12/06 [MP3][/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf](Thanks to Ring of Fire producer Scott Millican for the heads-up and for the smartly edited, commercial-free audio file!)[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]UPDATE: [/FONT][A href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2188430&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312"][FONT color=#0000bf]AP finally notices[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf] the spate of lawsuits being filed against these e-voting companies and their shitty wares across the country. AP is still way behind us here at [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/"][FONT color=#0000bf]The BRAD BLOG[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf], of course, and haven't noticed the RFK Jr. suits, but hey, they don't have the access to the huge resources and manpower that we are able to leverage here with our enormous staff and boundless funding, so we'll cut AP some slack. They're just a little blog or something, right? I'm sure they're doing their best. Thanks to Pam of [/FONT][A href="http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/"][FONT color=#0000bf]The Democratic Daily[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf] for the heads up! [/FONT]

[!-- [/div] --][!-- post-content --][!-- Metadata --] [DIV class=BloggedByMain] [/DIV]

READ [A href="http://www.BRADBLOG.COM"]WWW.BRADBLOG.COM[/A]

   

Republican pedophiles  64 up, 17 down

Evil members of the Republican Party and supporters thereof who have
abused children despite their high-and-mighty crusades for the
return to moral values. The following is a partial list; due to the
neocon obsession with NAMBLA, names with asterisks next to them are
suitable for membership in that organization through their repulsive
actions.

And feel free to research these people independently.

Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a
convicted child rapist in Florida.

Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to
molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years
in prison.

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-
year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to
possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty
to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10
years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and
17.

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in
federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three
years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond
had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during
the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after
admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an
inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

*Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex
parties at the White House during the 1980s.

*Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at
the White House during the 1980s.

Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of
having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child
porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex
crimes involving children.

Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted
sexual assault on a child.

Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working
as a congressional page.

Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell
admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger allegedly had sex with a
16 year old girl when he was 28.

*Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was
charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay
bar.

Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for
distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was
taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful
sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering
the drug LSD.

*Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with
molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex
with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after
the allegations were reported in the media.

*Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to
traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-
year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing
his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced
to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he
attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of
raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two
years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year
old girl.

*Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of
first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven
felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the
age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with
sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.

*Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to
molesting a male child.

Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual
assault on a teenage girl.

Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two
daughters.

Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was
convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

*Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty
to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest
to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of
child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30
months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state
representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child
pornography was found in his possession.

*Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin
Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting
sex from boys and girls over the internet.

Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good
military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having
sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for
Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming
in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas
Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six
years in prison.

Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A.
Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old
girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and
several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past
decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number
of young women.
   

[[A href="http://www.tagnet.org/abstracts/v6n3.htm"]http://www.tagnet.org/abstracts/v6n3.htm[/A]]

 [A href="http://www.tagnet.org/abstracts/v6n3.htm"]http://www.tagnet.org/abstracts/v6n3.htm[/A]

 Multiple Sclerosis is a degenerative nerve disease.

 MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS/PORK
A Canadian study reveals a significant relationship between multiple sclerosis and fat and meat (particularly pork) intake. The researchers point out that multiple sclerosis is rare in countries whose religious customs forbid the use of pork. (Medical Hypothesis 20:283-285, 1986)

 [A href="http://www.geocities.com/multiple_sclerosis_cause/index.html"]http://www.geocities.com/multiple_sclerosis_cause/index.html[/A]

 [SPAN][FONT color=#00cc00][A href="http://www.geocities.com/multiple_sclerosis_cause/index.html"]Is Pork the Cause of Multiple Sclerosis?[/A][/FONT][/SPAN][SPAN]

[/SPAN][FONT color=#cc0000 size=+1][SPAN]What is Multiple Sclerosis?[/SPAN][/FONT][SPAN]
[/SPAN][FONT color=#000066][SPAN]
[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT color=#000099][SPAN]Multiple Sclerosis, more commonly referred to as MS, is a progressive disease of the nervous system. In a healthy person the nerve fibres are coated with a fatty substance, called the myelin sheath. In MS patients, this myelin coating is gradually broken down by inflamed nerve cells. As a result nerve signals to and from the brain are disrupted.[/SPAN][/FONT][SPAN]

[/SPAN][FONT color=#cc0000 size=+1][SPAN]Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis[/SPAN][/FONT][SPAN]
[/SPAN][FONT color=#666666][SPAN]
[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT color=#000099][SPAN]The symptoms of MS are not unlike those of diabetes and impending stroke victims. They include vision, balance, speech and urinary problems. In addition there could be mood changes, and muscle spasms.[/SPAN][/FONT][SPAN]

[/SPAN][FONT color=#cc0000 size=+1][SPAN]The HHV-6 Virus as an Immediate Cause
of Multiple Sclerosis.[/SPAN][/FONT][SPAN]

[/SPAN][FONT color=#000099][SPAN]On November 24th 1997 there was a press release in which a Herpes Virus Strain, HHV-6, was identified as a "trigger" of MS. HHV-6 stands for Human Herpes Virus-6.

[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT color=#000099][SPAN]"Scientists believe that there may be a point in time during the progression of MS when the virus, which lies dormant in the body for years, reactivates ...(and) that the reactivation of HHV-6 virus may be associated with the breakdown of the protective covering of nerves, called myelin."[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT color=#000066][SPAN]

[/SPAN][/FONT][A href="http://www.ninds.nih.gov/news_and_events/pressrelease_herpes_virus_strain_112497.htm?type=archived"][FONT color=#990099][SPAN]Click here[/SPAN][/FONT][/A][A href="http://www.ninds.nih.gov/news_and_events/pressrelease_herpes_virus_strain_112497.htm?type=archived"][FONT color=#000066][SPAN] [/SPAN][/FONT][/A][FONT color=#000099][SPAN]to read the full press release[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT color=#000066][SPAN] [/SPAN][/FONT][A href="http://www.ninds.nih.gov/news_and_events/pressrelease_herpes_virus_strain_112497.htm"][FONT color=#990099][SPAN]"Herpes Virus Strain Identified as a Trigger in Multiple Sclerosis"[/SPAN][/FONT][/A][FONT color=#000066][SPAN]
[/SPAN][/FONT][SPAN]
[A href="http://www.geocities.com/multiple_sclerosis_cause/index.html"][FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"]CLICK HERE to read rest of article[/FONT][/A][/SPAN]

 

[murderous]

US media has been spineless, immoral, and criminally negligent by not properly reporting the dangerous attacks by organized crime against American democracy.  Hustler, on the other hand, has reported details on the actual murderous sociopathic criminality of the neo-Fascists successfully usurping America's democracy.

  [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"]READ ABOUT IT AT [/FONT][A href="http://www.BRADBLOG.COM"][FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"]WWW.BRADBLOG.COM[/FONT][/A]

[[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"]CLICK HERE and READ [/FONT]EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: RFK Jr., Florida Law Firm to File Federal Whistleblower Suits Against Two Voting Machine Companies!]

[A href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3023"][FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"]CLICK HERE and READ [/FONT]EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: RFK Jr., Florida Law Firm to File Federal Whistleblower Suits Against Two Voting Machine Companies![/A]

Last night my neighbours were playing really loud volka, around 2:00 am.  It was driving me nuts, so I dragged myself out of bed, pulled on some clothes, and found my way to their apartment.  I knocked on the door and a purple-haired older woman opened the door. She laughed excitedly, said something in Volvolish, and pulled me in.

  Young men were performing what I'd guess was traditional Volvolish break-dancing. Attractive young women were standing in a circle around them, clapping and singing in Volvolish. The purple-haired older woman loudly made an announcement, and everybody stopped and looked at me, waiting expectantly.  A fat guy with an accordion started playing a most nasty-sounding Volka number and the older women pushed me, as if to prod me to dance.  They all cheered, so what the heck-a-doodle, I did some moves I learned in Western Guilao.  A gorgeous young woman joined me, shaking her booty.

  Suddenly, a tall anvil-jawed man shouted angrily and grabbed me by the shoulders, then shoved me, shouting in Volvolish. I said, "What the hell?" He looked at me, baffled, and said, "What, you no speak Volvolish! What you doing at Vovolish wedding dance, you mudder-bucker. Don't get sex to my fiance!"   I replied, "Look, I just came to ask you to turn down the volume to your nasty ethnic music." This just infuriated him. Just then, there was a loud banging on the door. The older woman opened it, and two cops greeted her.  I took this opportunity to leave, taking a second to thank the police officers.
   

I read this story, and I really felt bad, learning about the woman who shot her husband, the preacher.  How could she do something like that?

  [A href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/06/30/winkler.bond.hearing/index.html"]http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/06/30/winkler.bond.hearing/index.html[/A]

  I mean, why did she disconnect the phone line?  She should have just left the darn phone alone after she shot him.    

[[FONT face=Arial size=5]Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve[/FONT]]

[FONT face=Arial size=5]Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve[/FONT]

[FONT face=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif size=2]Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday August 13, 2003
[A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/"][FONT color=#003366]The Guardian[/FONT][/A]

[/FONT]A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".   As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.   All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality".   Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.  The authors also peer into the psyche of President George Bush, who turns out to be a textbook case. The telltale signs are his preference for moral certainty and frequently expressed dislike of nuance.

 [A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1017546,00.html"][FONT color=#323232]CLICK HERE to read rest of article[/FONT][/A]

 

.

 [TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="1%" border=0] [TBODY] [TR] [TD align=middle][A][img id=galleryImage title="Britain's Prince Charles smiles to the media as he leaves The Goldsmiths' Company in London, Feb. 10." height=512 alt="Britain's Prince Charles smiles to the media as he leaves The Goldsmiths' Company in London, Feb. 10." src="http://photos.signonsandiego.com/gallery1.5/albums/royal_engagement/lcprince1.jpg" width=341 border=0 name=photo_j][/A][/TD] [TD width=0][img height=1 alt="" src="http://photos.signonsandiego.com/gallery1.5/images/pixel_trans.gif" width=0][/TD][/TR] [TR] [TD colSpan=3 height=0][img height=1 alt="" src="http://photos.signonsandiego.com/gallery1.5/images/pixel_trans.gif" width=0][/TD][/TR][/TBODY][/TABLE]

Some people are bitter, bitter, bitter.

[A Line in the Sand]

 [DIV class=post] [DIV class=BloggedBy align=right][FONT color=#0000bf]6/26/2006[/FONT]

[DIV class=ItemHeadline align=center][FONT color=#0000bf size=4]A Line in the Sand[/FONT]

[DIV class=ItemHeadline align=center][FONT color=#0000bf]by Brad Friedman[/FONT]

[FONT color=#0000bf]My reporting here and the concerns expressed about the [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=2"][FONT color=#0000bf]Busby/Bilbray election results[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf] as announced, have little or nothing to do with Francine Busby or Brian Bilbray or even, in particular, the June 6th U.S. House special run-off election in California's 50th congressional district.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]It has only a tiny bit more to do with San Diego. And only slightly more than that to do with California.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]It has everything, however, to do with democracy. Across the entire country. As opposed to any one race in any one area.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]If I've not been clear on that until now, please allow me to set the record straight.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]The concerns I've reported — and will continue to report — over the blatant disregard for the rule of law and clear illegalities endorsed and encouraged by the SD County Registrar of Voters, Mikel Haas and allowed and apparently-approved at this point by California's Secretary of State Bruce McPherson have everything to do with the future viability of democracy in this country in general and a perhaps-naive hope that there's a chance in hell that acting now will help to salvage a shred of legitimacy for this coming November's election.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]That can only happen if action is taken now, however, directly in regard to the Busby/Bilbray election results as announced.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]As far as I can see it, what happens in regard to Busby/Bilbray will be America's last, best, and only hope of affecting any real election reform prior to the November 7th general election. That's why, for me, this has become "Line in the Sand Time."[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]Never, in the two-and-a-half year history of [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/"][FONT color=#0000bf]The BRAD BLOG[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf] have I set aside almost everything else in order to cover and raise attention to a single story — to the exclusion of almost every other story — for such a long period of time as I have done since my [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2926"][FONT color=#0000bf]original coverage[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf] of this matter the day after the June 6th election.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]Since that time, I've stated in both written and spoken words, many times that I don't actually give a damn who won the Busby/Bilbray race and that I didn't even much bother to follow any of it prior to Election Day. I've got no dog in the hunt and only care that the person who actually received the most votes is the one that was declared the winner. At this point, there is absolutely no way of knowing who actually won.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]The fact of the matter is that just two or three months after both the federal certification oversight body (NASED) and California's own Secretary of State issued emergency "security mitigation requirements" in light of newly discovered and massive vulnerabilities in Diebold's voting systems, those security requirements were entirely tossed out the window when all of the machines were [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2932"][FONT color=#0000bf]sent home with poll workers[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf] for overnights in the days and weeks prior to the election. In doing so, the machines themselves were effectively [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2954"][FONT color=#0000bf]rendered illegal and uncertified for use[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf] in any California election and at the federal level as well.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]Unless something is done, the same thing is about to happen in elections across this entire country.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf](NOTE: Lou Dobbs will be covering this issue on CNN tonight I am told. Including interviews with some of the poll worker sources we gave them after originally reported on them here at [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/"][FONT color=#0000bf]BRAD BLOG[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf].)[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]I'd have hoped that more media, candidates, individuals and even Election Reform organizations would have come to understand the national significance of what all the sturm and drang here has actually been about. If they haven't, that's likely my failing. So I'll try again to make both myself and the stakes here crystal clear...[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]What happens here and now — in regard to this race and its results as announced — will send a signal to elections administrators across the country. The signal will be one of two...[/FONT]

 [A id=more-3002][FONT color=#0000bf][/FONT][/A]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]Either the rule of law must be followed in the administration of elections because the citizens of this country demand accountability and verifiability in our elections as democracy itself depends on confidence in the results of these elections.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]Or the message will be that elections officials, spending billions and billions of our own tax dollars, are welcome to ignore all such laws and emergency security provisions in the wake of the first time use of the [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2926"][FONT color=#0000bf]world's most tamperable voting machines[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf], tell us on Election Night whatever (unverified and unverifiable) numbers they wish to and Americans will subsequently roll over and say "Great. Good enough for us. We'll believe anything you tell us. Even if you haven't and couldn't prove your results are accurate to save your life."[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]I received an email the other day from a congressional office complaining that I hadn't given any coverage to a so-far successful effort by Republicans to [/FONT][A href="http://www.accessmontgomery.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060621/NEWS02/60621008"][FONT color=#0000bf]indefinitely postpone a vote[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf] on the renewal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]"Busby is one race, one region," the staffer wrote, "this affects the ability to seek justice nationwide."[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]I replied that, of course, in normal times [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/"][FONT color=#0000bf]The BRAD BLOG[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf] would have covered the cynical, shameful, and anti-democratic story of Republicans scuttling the renewal of the beloved and necessary Voting Rights Act with much prominence. Perhaps even with a siren! We have covered issues surrounding the Voting Rights Act [/FONT][A href="http://tinyurl.com/m66ey"][FONT color=#0000bf]many times here[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf]. And, of course, we will continue to do so.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]These are not normal times, however. And, as I pointed out in my reply — and to several others recently along the same lines — even if we could ensure tomorrow that every single American who wanted to vote legally was allowed to do so without problem or disenfranchisement, we still won't have legitimate elections without seeing to the problem of the security of the machines which use secret software, written by private companies to count our vote without any sort of accountability or transparency.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]This apparently, is a lesson that the DNC and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and virtually all Democratic lawmakers have apparently yet to learn.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]I've heard recently that the DNC will soon be announcing an initiative for "Election Protection" for this November's election. The initiative will include attorneys, poll-watching and a paltry $500k to pay for it all. Not one word, as far as I've heard (and I'd be delighted to hear otherwise from anyone at the DNC) about what the hell will be done to ensure integrity of the voting machines which will proliferate the electoral landscape for the very first time this year given that this is the year the disastrous Help America Vote Act (HAVA) mandates kick into full gear.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]If the DNC, and any of the other organizations and/or candidates give a damn about Electoral Integrity the time to act is now. Busby/Bilbray is the only federal election in the country at the moment, and it's the first one to have occurred since the discovery of the massive vulnerabilities in this new crop of electronic voting machines (Diebold in proven particular, but all of them in theory). As mentioned, those newly discovered vulnerabilities have sent both states and the federal oversight bodies scrambling to produce emergency "security mitigation requirements" for the approved use of such machines.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]But what good are such rules and laws if they are not followed?[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]In San Diego County, in the Busby/Bilbray (CA-50) race, those emergency requirements were all but ignored when San Diego County's registrar Mikel Haas sent them machines home for overnights with poll workers for days and week prior to the election. California's Secretary of State, Bruce McPherson, who convened a special commission of independent computer scientists and security experts to assess the problems once they came to undisputed light last December, has blithely ignored the fact that his own so-called "[/FONT][A href="http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/voting_systems/diebold_cert.pdf"][FONT color=#0000bf]conditional certification[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf]" for the machines, based on his own "[/FONT][A href="http://www.ss.ca.gov/executive/press_releases/2006/06_021.pdf"][FONT color=#0000bf]security procedures[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf]" were clearly violated.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]The machines used in San Diego county on election day were uncertified then by both state and federal standards. They are as presumed-contaminated as a blood sample would be if taken at a crime scene and then sent home for storage in a worker's car or garage for a week before being brought into the crime lab. Just as the voting machines were.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]The announced results of the election, therefore, as based on totals reported from presumed-tainted optical scan systems — on the same day that [/FONT][A href="http://votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1378&Itemid=51"][FONT color=#0000bf]two different races in Iowa were overturned after a manual hand-count[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf] of ballots revealed that the announced post-op-scan loser had actually won the race instead! — will always be suspect until they are verified via a 100% manual hand count of the paper ballots used in the race. (And with the hope that the chain of custody for the ballots themselves has been secure this whole time. Not an easy presumption to make given Haas' own appalling lack of security and/or ability to follow the rule of law in administrating the election up until now.)[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]It is for these reasons, not that any of us actually care in particular about the Busby/Bilbray races that so many election protection organizations, candidates and individuals have now [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2992"][FONT color=#0000bf]declared "NO CONFIDENCE"[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf] in the reported results and are demanding a manual hand-count of the ballots.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]By applying enough public pressure on officials, so that a judge might order a manual hand-count of the ballots (a COUNT, not a REcount as paid for by citizens or the candidate, since we already paid them once to count the ballots, and they failed to do so!) a signal might be sent to elections officials across the country that these things, such as following the rule of law, actually matter.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]On the other hand, if absolutely nothing is done now, I assure you that by November — when some 435 U.S. House races and 30-something U.S. Senate races occur on the very same day — we will have an unmitigated disaster on our hands for which it will be largely too late to do anything.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]Need more indication that action needs to be taken now before elections are held in thousands of counties across the country on the same day? See what's [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2996"][FONT color=#0000bf]now being reporting[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf] as having occurred in Riverside County, CA on Election Day![/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]No security. No accountability. And, most tragically of all in the bargain, no democracy.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]It's time to act now. I will do so. To the best of my ability. If the media and the various political parties and the host of candidates who will be directly affected by this don't wish to do so, that's up to them.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]I'll be doing so either way. Because it's not about them or their victory or their loss in any election. It's about our democracy. And, apparently, it's up to us to try and preserve it.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]Even if many of those folks don't understand it. Or worse, even if they do understand it, but don't think it's worth bothering.[/FONT]

 [FONT color=#0000bf]I suggest that nothing in this election year, no single issue, is of great import to our country. That's what I've been going to the extraordinary measures that I have. I hope you'll [/FONT][A href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2999"][FONT color=#0000bf]join me[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf]. [/FONT]

 [DIV class=ItemLinks] [FORM class=ItemLinks action=https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr method=post][FONT color=#0000bf] [/FONT]  [P align=right][FONT color=#0000bf][[/FONT][A title="PRINT VERSION" href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3002&print=1"][FONT color=#0000bf]PRINT VERSION[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf]] [[/FONT][A title="'Send" href="mailto:?subject=The BRAD BLOG: 'A Line in the Sand' &body=Thought you might be interested in this article from The BRAD BLOG!%0A%0ACheck out 'A Line in the Sand' at:%0A%0Ahttp://www.bradblog.com/?p=3002" Sand?' the in Line ?A to link friend your][FONT color=#0000bf]Email it to someone![/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf]] [[/FONT][A title="Technorati's list of sites linking to this BRAD BLOG item" href="http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3002"][FONT color=#0000bf]Who's linking up[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf]] [[/FONT][A title="'Permanent" href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3002" Sand?' the in Line ?A to link 2006: 26th, June][FONT color=#0000bf]Permalink[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf]]
[/FONT][SMALL][FONT color=#0000bf size=1][Categories for this item: [/FONT][A title="View all posts in Busby/Bilbray" href="http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=2" rel="category tag"][FONT color=#0000bf size=1]Busby/Bilbray[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf size=1], [/FONT][A title="View all posts in Diebold" href="http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=3" rel="category tag"][FONT color=#0000bf size=1]Diebold[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf size=1], [/FONT][A title="View all posts in Bruce McPherson" href="http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=18" rel="category tag"][FONT color=#0000bf size=1]Bruce McPherson[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf size=1], [/FONT][A title="View all posts in California" href="http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=21" rel="category tag"][FONT color=#0000bf size=1]California[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf size=1], [/FONT][A title="View all posts in Election Reform" href="http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=28" rel="category tag"][FONT color=#0000bf size=1]Election Reform[/FONT][/A][FONT size=1][FONT color=#0000bf]][/FONT] [/FONT][/SMALL]

[/DIV][/FORM][/DIV][!-- post-id --]    

[deleted]  

[[A href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060526/D8HRO5SO0.html"]http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060526/D8HRO5SO0.html[/A]]

I do 250 lbs leg presses, and I can barely manage three sets of 30 reps.  I need some holy energy:

   [SPAN id=intelliTXT][FONT face=Verdana,Sans-serif color=#000000 size=2][A href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060526/D8HRO5SO0.html"]http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060526/D8HRO5SO0.html[/A][/FONT][/SPAN]

 [SPAN][FONT face=Verdana,Sans-serif color=#000000 size=2]Robertson Says He Leg-Pressed 2,000 Pounds[/FONT][FONT size=1]


[/FONT][/SPAN] VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says he has leg-pressed 2,000 pounds, but some say he'd be in a pretty tough spot if he tried.

 The "700 Club" host's feat of strength is recounted on the Web site of his Christian Broadcasting Network, in a posting headlined "How Pat Robertson Leg Pressed 2,000 Pounds." [A href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060526/D8HRO5SO0.html"]click here to read rest of article[/A]

Are DV and DS connected?   If so, how?

Sir Jagadish Chander Bose had the rare ability to combine the ancient mystical traditions of India with the rigid scientific methods of the West.  He blazed trails to many brilliant areas of science.  Three cheers for Sir Jagadish Chander Bose!!!  

1. Put on really spiffy business clothes.  Be sure to shine your shoes.

2. Stand on a busy street corner, holding a briefcase.

3. Repeatedly shout, "SNITCHET!"

4. Confront people staring at you, and ask, "Haven't you ever seen a cicada before!?"

Yesterday I spent maybe $6.00 on old books from a guy selling them on the street.  I soon learned that they're first edition books, including a John Steinbeck novel!  I looked up their value on the internet, and it amounted to around US$900.  

Recently, I've seen lots of fights breaking out in Vancouver.  More than usual.  This week alone, I saw two young women fight outside a car.  One of them fell onto the street, then was picked off the street and guided into the car, and they drove away.  I've also couple of fights between blokes over who-knows-what (simian minds are complex) outside a nightclub.  And just today two young guys shouted at each other and started pummeling at each other in the middle of the street.   I suspect that clusters of events like these have something to do the climate.  They are probably people prone to such kinds of behavior, and therefore more likely to be triggered by external factors such weather changes.  Not sure.  

  Why is it that no matter how much I sleep, or how much crap I take from others, or if I've had a little too much beer, I still have no desire whatsoever to attack someone??? None whatsoever.  Must be a certain principle that I picked up in the journey of my life (ironically, from a martial arts champion):  The degree to which one reacts to something is the value that one gives it.  If you don't bend down to pick up crap floating down the stream, why would you react to the garbage spewing from someone's mouth?

The roller coaster is back down at ground level, and I'm back walking on land again. 'It was fun and exciting while it lasted. It'll be a different roller coaster next time, not sure when.  Such is the life of illusions...

[[A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1678219,00.html?gusrc=rss"][FONT face="Arial, Helvetica,sans-serif" color=#990000 size=4][A href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/RFK_Jr._plans_suit_over_2004_0619.html"][FONT face="Arial, Helvetica,sans-serif" color=#990000 size=3]RFK Jr. to sue over 'stolen' 04 election[/FONT][/A][/FONT][/A]]

 [SPAN class=rss:item][A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1678219,00.html?gusrc=rss"][FONT face="Arial, Helvetica,sans-serif" color=#990000 size=4][A href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/RFK_Jr._plans_suit_over_2004_0619.html"][FONT face="Arial, Helvetica,sans-serif" color=#990000 size=3]RFK Jr. to sue over 'stolen' 04 election[/FONT][/A][/FONT][/A]
[FONT face="Times New Roman,serif" size=3]Kennedy devising 'litigation strategy' over 'stolen' 2004 presidential election.[/FONT][/SPAN]

[SPAN class=rss:item][/SPAN]

[SPAN class=rss:item][/SPAN] [A href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/RFK_Jr._plans_suit_over_2004_0619.html"][FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"]To read about it, Click Here[/FONT][/A]

Titusville, FL (PRWEB) June 7, 2006 -- With the November midterm elections fast approaching, and primary races already melting down in nearly every state around the country, the release of an explosive article exposing the flaws and dirty politics in the 2004 election wins high praise from election fraud whistleblower Clint Curtis, Candidate for U.S. Congress (FL-24th district).

"Rolling Stone and author Robert Kennedy, Jr., should be given medals for bringing the '04 election manipulations to a wider audience. Americans really aren't yet aware just how vulnerable and insecure our elections are, or how easy it is to flip the results of a national election and change the course of the country. This is a very, very serious situation, with grave consequences for our democratic process," said Curtis.

Published in the June 15th issue of Rolling Stone, the article offers an in-depth and long over-due examination of the persistent questions surrounding the 2004 presidential election. Moreover, Curtis joins Kennedy in his sidebar article calling for a full federal investigation into electronic voting machines, the vendors who produce the hackable machines, and those congress members responsible for enabling the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) which is making all of our elections more un-secure than ever.

"It is time to insist on verifiable and properly conducted elections in America" Curtis says. "Mr. Kennedy estimates that 350,000 voters were disenfranchised in Ohio alone – and that's only the tip of the iceberg; thousands of election 'irregularities' went uninvestigated by both congress and the media in 2004. No voter should be forced to use proven-hackable and insecure voting machines, nor wait ten hours in the rain to exercise their right to vote. Public elections should never be sold off to private corporations, run on secret software, nor overseen by wildly partisan officials." He adds, "Unfortunately, the voters in Florida know all of this as well as anyone."

[A href="http://www.clintcurtis.com/calendar/default.asp"]Read rest of article CLICK HERE[/A]

[illegal]

 [DIV class=storyhdr] [SPAN][FONT size=2]Brad Friedman [/FONT][/SPAN]Fri Jun 16, 8:51 PM ET

 [DIV class=spacer][/DIV]

Take Your Democracy Back!

 [DIV class=lrec]I don't know how else to put it, but every voting machine used in last week's special election run-off for the U.S. House seat vacated by the disgraced Randy "Duke" Cunningham in California's 50th congressional district was illegal. By federal standards, rules and provisions and by California state rules, laws and provisions. And now, by the San Diego County Registrar of Voters own admission.

TO REVIEW: The election was run on [A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/huffpost/cm_huffpost/storytext/023197/19382684/SIG=11fcs1umb/*http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002924.htm"][FONT color=#003399]highly hackable[/FONT][/A] Diebold voting machines that were [A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/huffpost/cm_huffpost/storytext/023197/19382684/SIG=111d4i3tp/*http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2930"][FONT color=#003399]sent home overnight and unsecurely[/FONT][/A] with poll workers for days prior to the election which rendered the machines both [A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/huffpost/cm_huffpost/storytext/023197/19382684/SIG=1118k7s3p/*http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2954"][FONT color=#003399]illegal and uncertified for use[/FONT][/A] in the election under both federal and state laws, requirements and statutes. The GOP has since [A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/huffpost/cm_huffpost/storytext/023197/19382684/SIG=1111872m0/*http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2956"][FONT color=#003399]rushed to swear-in Bilbray before the votes were counted[/FONT][/A], or the election even certified by the state of California.

 See any of the links above for corroborated, sourced and detailed information.

 And keep in mind that it's recently been revealed that Diebold voting machines can have their entire election software, operating system, and even computer firmware ("BIOS") overwritten in less than two minutes with no password necessary, should anybody gain unsupervised physical access to the
machines.

 Note also that on the PBS News Hour last night, David Jefferson, Livermore Labs computer scientist, and a member of the CA Sec. of State's own team of independent analysts who looked at the recently discovered massive security flaws in Diebold's systems was quoted as saying:

 particular vulnerability is serious enough that you can affect multiple machines from a single attack. [/b]That's what makes it so dangerous.  [BLOCKQUOTE][/BLOCKQUOTE]Given that every common-sense (and legal) security mitigation procedure was tossed out the window when these same Diebold voting machines were sent home with poll workers, given that the machines were therefore uncertified for use in the race, given that one tampered machine could affect every other machine used in the election, given that American democracy is based on confidence in our electoral system, and given that there is therefore, no way to know that the reported results of the race are the actual results of the race...a manual hand-count of all paper ballots and "paper trails" must be done immediately.  

 In case you hadn't heard, on the very same day as California's election last week, at least [A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/huffpost/cm_huffpost/storytext/023197/19382684/SIG=12i3ueosv/*http://votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1378&Itemid=51"][FONT color=#003399]two elections in Iowa[/FONT][/A], in Republican Primaries, the reported results showed that the popular incumbents had lost their race after the ballots were optically scanned. Due to an election director who was clever enough to realize something was amiss, the ballots were then hand-counted,
revealing in both cases that the incumbents had actually won the election!

 Only a manual hand-count had revealed it. In one case, the incumbent had come in tenth in the race until the hand-count revealed the true results of the contest.

 As to the Busby/Bilbray election...So far, PDA has [A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/huffpost/cm_huffpost/storytext/023197/19382684/SIG=11tga6c2n/*http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/busby-handcount.php"][FONT color=#003399]declared "No Confidence"[/FONT][/A] in the race. Tribune Media columnist Robert Koehler has [A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/huffpost/cm_huffpost/storytext/023197/19382684/SIG=11eapjmci/*http://commonwonders.com/archives/col350.htm"][FONT color=#003399]declared "No Confidence"[/FONT][/A] in the race. VelvetRevolution.us has [A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/huffpost/cm_huffpost/storytext/023197/19382684/SIG=111ueu7eo/*http://www.velvetrevolution.us/#061006"][FONT color=#003399]declared "No Confidence"[/FONT][/A] in the race. And VoteTrustUSA has declared "[A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/huffpost/cm_huffpost/storytext/023197/19382684/SIG=12m5qoima/*http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1385&Itemid=26"][FONT color=#003399]egregious violations[/FONT][/A]" took place in the race.

 So who actually won the race? At this time, there is no way to know. Not until the ballots are counted.

 In the meantime, if Americans roll over and allow our electoral system to be treated with such callous disregard for the law, specific security procedures and common-sense while there is just one national election of note in play -- the signal has been sent to do whatever the hell you want come this November when 435 U.S. House races and 20 something U.S. Senate races will be up for grabs.

 Is that the message we should be sending to those entrusted with running our elections?

 It's time for Americans to take their democracy back from the private companies who have usurped our election system. San Diegans, it's time for you to "go Ukraine" on that Registrar of Voters office! For the rest of America -- who paid for this election with $3.8 billion in federal tax dollars, even though it was carried out in defiance of the very law that allocated those funds -- please sign the VelvetRevolution.us [A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/huffpost/cm_huffpost/storytext/023197/19382684/SIG=12868e0kf/*http://www.velvetrevolution.us/content/busby-bilbray/busby-bilbray.php"][FONT color=#003399]petition[/FONT][/A] demanding a 100% hand-count NOW!

 Then please spread the word.

 It's your democracy. Use it or lose it.

[Security Breaches for Voting Machines Used in Busby/Bilbray Race Invalidated, Decertified Their Use in the Election!]

[!-- BEGIN POST --] [DIV class=post]<=post-2954>

[DIV class=ItemHeadline][FONT size=5]Security Breaches for Voting Machines Used in Busby/Bilbray Race Invalidated, Decertified Their Use in the Election![/FONT]

[DIV class=ItemSubHeadline]

[DIV class=ItemSubHeadline]San Diego County Registrar Admits to Security Lapses Which Would Nullify Legal Use of Systems According to Both State and Federal Requirements, Provisions!

[DIV class=ItemSubHeadline]

[DIV class=ItemSubSubHeadline]Registrar of Voters Not Concerned, Says Poll Workers would 'have to want to commit a felony, which knocks out most of our poll workers'[/DIV][!-- Print the time the article was posted --][!-- The article content --][!-- [div class="post-content"] --] [A href="http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=2"][img hspace=6 src="http://www.bradblog.com/images/FrancineBusby_Winner_small.jpg" align=right vspace=3 border=0][/A]The electronic Diebold voting systems used in the special election run-off election last week for California's 50th congressional district were effectively 'decertified' and invalidated for use in the election after [A href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2932"][FONT color=#0000bf]massive security breaches[/FONT][/A] in the storage of those systems were sanctioned by the San Diego County Registrar of Voters, [A href="http://www.bradblog.com/"][FONT color=#0000bf]The BRAD BLOG[/FONT][/A] can now conclude.

 Based on the review of several different very specific state and federal requirements, the unsecured storage of Diebold voting machines and their memory cards in poll workers houses, cars and garages in the days and weeks prior to the closely watched U.S. House election between Republican Brian Bilbray and Democrat Francine Busby violated several federal and state provisions which, if not followed, would revoke the certification of use the voting systems in any California election.

 [img hspace=6 src="http://www.bradblog.com/Images/MikelHaas_Unconcerned.jpg" align=left vspace=3 border=0]In the wake of discussions yesterday with SD County Registrar Mikel Haas, who admitted to [A href="http://www.bradblog.com/"][FONT color=#0000bf]The BRAD BLOG[/FONT][/A][FONT color=#0000bf] [/FONT]that storage in poll workers' cars could not be considered secure, it has now become clear that several violations of certifified provisions of use for Diebold voting machines — which have been found and confirmed in the past several months to be highly tamperable by dozens of methods and by the company's own admissions — occured in last week's race...

 [A href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2954#more-2954"]

 [DIV class=MoreText]— Click here for REST OF STORY!... —

[/A]