Ken Blackwell outsources Ohio election results to GOP Internet operatives, again

Many citizen journalists at ePluribus Media have worked on a story of the IT backbone of the VRWC and how it relates to Ohio but truly addresses the Central Nervous System of the GOP's communications and fundraising apparatus:

http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2006/11/7/115314/922

A direct quote:

"The takeaway message is this: Ohio's election results are hosted on the same servers by the partisan companies that run websites like georgewbush.com and many of the familiar Republican group sites. The people who consoldiate GOP operations in Chattanooga early this decade have been responsible for Ohio's election night results since 2004 and will probably continue to do so if J. Kenneth Blackwell extends his pay-for-play policies as Governor of Ohio."

The implications are huge, and I'd appreciate it if you'd take a look.

Sincerely,
wanderindiana
Andrew Brenner
ePluribus Media, Inc.

http://www.epluribusmedia.org/

Voting in Hollywood, California

No Diebold or ES&S machines, no threatening pollsters, no interference from poll workers, no threatening calls, no nothing... seems when its a done deal concerning the way a State or locality votes Rove and his minions stay away and concentrate on key elections in swing states. I walked into a church on Yucca Street in Hollywood situated right next to the Hollywood freeway right under the Hollywood sign.

Gratitude

Dear Mr. Wasserman & Fitrakis,

Thanks.  You made it possible.  Keep up the good work.  I hope you realize the magnitude of your work.  Sincerely, Soni Biehl, Lubec, Maine

Congratulations!

You in particular are the real winners here.  Without the insistence of the Free Press that attention had to be paid to election fraud, rigging, and, as you say, much more, there would not have been media attention paid nor any grassroots voter protection movement.

Bob, Suzanne, Harvey,  congratulations! my hat is off to you.

Tekla

just read your monumental article

I dont think the country realizes the enormous contribution you guys, Fitrakis et al, made to this election process and exposing the Rovian dirty tricks. You kept shouting until even CNN and MSNBC had to mention it.  I noticed something interesting following the major reports, CNN, MSNBC, even FOX...

Angsto the Clown ruminates on the election of 2006

Oct. 27 Yea, I know I said I was too dejected to do this again but Angsto seems a good way to protest the death of the Constitution... so the site is back since I switched back to cable... A few hours of tweaking and the addition of some updated material and Angsto is back to fight the good fight. I promise to add much more since we are quickly going to hell in a handbasket... the November "elections" should be a test whether Karl Rove and the PNAC monsters, , will hack another GOP win...

Angsto

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Nov. 5



The drama of empty numbers

And the voters went "Ahem."

Even with a 40 percent national turnout, which, I know, is good for a midterm election in the world's oldest and most complacent democracy, I find myself battling doubt and skepticism a day later that the criminally incompetent Bush administration has actually gotten its comeuppance. At the very least, I know that those of us who want to reclaim the country still have a lot of work to do. Our celebration at wresting back the House and maybe even the Senate will have to be a brief one.

A White House spokesman, commenting on the president's reaction to the withdrawal of his mandate to dig the holes into which he has thrust the country still deeper during the remainder of his term, said: "But he's eager to work with both parties on his priorities over the next two years."

Yeah, I'll bet. What I wonder is, have we elected bipartisan appeasers who want to "work" with W, or will the newly powerful congressional Democrats reflect the outrage and horror of their constituents and begin shining a moral spotlight on this criminal regime? Will they tell the president where to stick his priorities?

Post-election etiquette

AUSTIN, Texas -- The sheer pleasure of getting lessons in etiquette from Karl Rove and the right-wing media passeth all understanding. Ever since 1994, the Republican Party has gone after Democrats with the frenzy of a foaming mad dog. There was the impeachment of Bill Clinton, not to mention the trashing of both Clinton and his wife -- accused of everything from selling drugs to murder -- all orchestrated by that paragon of manners, Tom DeLay.

            Media Matters collected some gems of fairness. For instance, Monica Crowley with MSNBC, in the wake of John Kerry's botched program, astutely observed "how lucky we are that he was not elected president.  ... The Republicans remain the grown-ups, the responsible ones on national security."

            How many dead Americans has this grown-up war resulted in?

            And how darling of Fox's Juan Williams, upon learning polls show the people favor Democrats on taxes, to say, "To me, that's crazy."

             And how many times did Chris Matthews use the Republican talking points about Nancy Pelosi? Extremist, uncooperative, incapable, unwilling to work with the president.

A monumental victory for the election protection movement

The real winner in the November 7 election is the grassroots voter protection movement.

That the well-oiled, well-funded Rove/Bush theft machine lost control of the US House with the Senate as close as it is says just one thing: somebody was watching. In 2006, that would be thousands of volunteer grassroots activists who left no stone unturned to expose rigged voting machines, Jim Crow registration roadblocks, trashed provisional ballots, manipulated absentee voting processes, and much more.

A nationwide movement has been born to apply the lessons of the stolen elections of 2000, 2002 and 2004. In the lead-up to 2006, activists and independent experts scrutinized voting machines and electoral processes as never before. Mainstream media reports from the New York Times to CNN's Lou Dobbs to hundreds of radio talk shows finally paid attention to "glitches" and "problems" and "long lines" and "disputes" that just an election cycle ago were dismissed as "business as usual" or the stuff of conspiracy theory.

At least six major reports have now warned of the hackability of

Machine glitches

I want to document my voting experience yesterday at the Middlebury Twp. precinct in Knox County, Ohio. When I cast my vote on a touch-screen machine for Zack Space, the machine registered Joy Padgett. When I changed it, it flipped back to Padgett, twice. Finally, it stayed on Space, but when I turned the page to review my votes, the machine once again registered Joy Padgett.

I was equally troubled by the response of the poll workers to whom I reported the glitch. Their response was something like, "Don't worry about it, it will be all right." They didn't close down the machine!

I checked the print-out to make sure the results were recorded correctly. I left wondering how many voters would even notice the glitch and check the print-out.

Isn't it interesting that all of these glitches seem to err in favor of Republicans?

Jacqueline I. Ruhl
Fredericktown, Ohio

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