Olbermann
continues to be the only journalist covering this story. Go
give him some love.
And
tell the press to start doing their damn job.
This
page has a ton of great information on the election fraud
-
Jordan
XYZPDQ
Hat
tip to Joel
Im
just sayin.....
-
Jordan
11/22/04
TELL
THE MEDIA TO START COVERING THE VOTE FRAUD ISSUE!!
Media contact information
Ohio
Vote Hearings Put Election Results in Serious Doubt
Highly-charged,
jam-packed hearings held here in Columbus have cast serious doubt
on the true outcome of the presidential election.
On Saturday, November 13, and Monday, November 15, the Ohio Election
Protection Coalition’s public hearings in Columbus solicited
extensive sworn first-person testimony from 32 of Ohio voters,
precinct judges, poll workers, legal observers, party challengers.
An additional 66 people provided written affidavits of election
irregularities. The unavoidable conclusion is that this year's
election in Ohio was deeply flawed, that thousands of Ohioans
were denied their right to vote, and that the ultimate vote count
is very much in doubt.
Most importantly, the testimony has revealed a widespread and
concerted effort on the part of Republican Secretary of State
Kenneth Blackwell to deny primarily African-American and young
voters the right to cast their ballots within a reasonable time.
By depriving precincts of adequate numbers of functioning voting
machines, Blackwell created waits of three to eleven hours, driving
tens of thousands of likely Democratic voters away from the polls
and very likely affecting the outcome of the Ohio vote count,
which in turn decided the national election.
Much
much more....
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Jordan
Saving
Your Right to Vote
Section
two of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution reads,
in paraphrase, as follows: "But when the right to vote at
any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice
President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the
executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of
the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the inhabitants of
such state, or in any way abridged, except for participation in
rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein
shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male
citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one
years of age in such state." In other words, if a state can't
manage to run a fair election, that state loses Senators or Congresspeople.......
snip
snip .... Nationally, there were more than 1,100 incidents of
electronic voting machine malfunctions. In Broward County, Florida,
election workers were shocked to discover that their shiny new
machines were counting backwards. "Tallies should go up as
more votes are counted," according to the news story. "That's
simple math. But in some races, the numbers had gone down. Officials
found the software used in Broward can handle only 32,000 votes
per precinct. After that, the system starts counting backward."
In Franklin County, Ohio, voting machines gave Bush
3,893 extra votes in one precinct alone. "Franklin County's
unofficial results gave Bush 4,258 votes to Democratic challenger
John Kerry's 260 votes in Precinct 1B," according to the
news story. "Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in
that precinct. Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County
Board of Elections, said Bush received 365 votes there. The other
13 voters who cast ballots either voted for other candidates or
did not vote for president."
In Craven County, North Carolina, a software error
on the electronic voting machines awarded Bush 11,283 extra votes.
"The Elections Systems and Software equipment," according
to the news story, "had downloaded voting information from
nine of the county's 26 precincts and as the absentee ballots
were added, the precinct totals were added a second time. An override,
like those occurring when one attempts to save a computer file
that already exists, is supposed to prevent double counting, but
did not function correctly."
There
is more
-
Jordan
Recount
efforts in Ohio by Kerry intensify
A
top-ranking official with Democratic Senator John Kerry's presidential
campaign told North County News last week that although unlikely,
there is a recount effort being waged that could unseat Republican
President George W. Bush.
"We have 17,000 lawyers working on this, and the grassroots
accountability couldn't be any higher - no (irregularity) will
go unchecked. Period," Kerry spokesman David Wade said.
A verbal firestorm erupted last week between an area supporter
of independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader and Wade after
the Kerry spokesman derided Nader for creating a "phony wedge
issue between progressives."
Nader has been calling on Kerry and his vice presidential running
mate, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, to, in his words,
"follow through on their post-election promise to the American
people to make sure every vote counts, starting in Ohio."
More...
-
Jordan
11/17/04
So
much for moral values
GOP
tosses ethics rule so DeLay can keep post
Washington
-- House Republicans adopted a rule change Wednesday that would
allow their powerful majority leader, Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas,
to keep his post if he is indicted on state corruption charges
stemming from a fund-raising scandal that has already involved
three of his associates.
Democrats led by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco
-- who was unanimously re-elected to her post Wednesday -- assailed
the Republican action as hypocritical and arrogant.
- snip -
The original rule was adopted by Republicans in 1993 when they
were the minority party attacking the Democratic-controlled leadership
as corrupt and arrogant. The rule required House GOP leaders
to step aside if indicted for a crime that could bring a sentence
of at least two years in state or federal prison.
(emphasis
mine)
The
rest
Nancy
Pelosi (D-CA) criticizes the DeLay Rule:
"Republicans
have reached a new low. It is absolutely mind-boggling that
as their first order of business following the elections, House
Republicans have lowered the ethical standards for their leaders."
So
the rule is created by Republican to help aust a Democrat and then
retracted when it would apply to a Republican. Moral values my ass.
-
Jordan
Berkeley
once again ahead of the game
My
home town is making me proud:
UC
Berkeley Study Questions Florida E-Vote Count
A
research team at UC Berkeley will report that irregularities associated
with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000 - 260,000
or more excess votes to President George W. Bush in Florida in
the 2004 presidential election. The study shows an unexplained
discrepancy between votes for President Bush in counties where
electronic voting machines were used versus counties using traditional
voting methods. Discrepancies this large or larger rarely arise
by chance -- the probability is less than 0.1 percent. The research
team, led by Professor Michael Hout, will formally disclose results
of the study at the press conference.
Link
to the report
Wired
News pitches in:
The
analysis -- which hasn't been formally peer-reviewed, but was
examined by seven professors -- showed a discrepancy in the number
of votes Bush received in counties that used the touch-screen
machines and counties that used other types of voting equipment.
The researchers examined numerous variables that might have affected
the vote outcome. These included the number of voters, their median
income, racial and age makeup and the change in voter turnout
between the 2000 and 2004 elections. Using this information, they
examined election results for the Republican and Democratic presidential
candidates in the state in 1996, 2000 and 2004 to see how support
for those candidates and parties measured over eight years in
Florida's 67 counties.
They discovered that in the 15 counties using touch-screen voting
systems, the number of votes granted to Bush far exceeded the
number of votes Bush should have received -- given all of the
other variables -- while the number of votes that Bush received
in counties using other types of voting equipment lined up perfectly
with what the variables would have predicted for those counties.
The total number of excessive votes ranged between 130,000 and
260,000, depending on what kind of problem caused the excess votes.
The counties most affected by the anomaly were heavily Democratic.
Sociology professor Michael Hout, who chairs the university's
graduate Sociology and Demography group, said the chance for such
a discrepancy to occur was less than 1 in 1,000.
"No matter how many factors and variables we took into consideration,
the significant correlation in the votes for President Bush and
electronic voting cannot be explained," he said in a statement.
"There is just a trivial probability of evidence like this
appearing in a population where the true difference is zero --
less than once in a thousand chances."
The
rest
Thanks
to Joel for the link
-
Jordan
11/16/04
Republican
Information Security professional, easily hacks into Diebold
Here
are some pieces of what this fellow has to say. It is quite shocking.
He easily hacked into the Diebold system.
I
got involved with this because I have been against the adoption
of these voting systems for years. It's a dumb-ass idea to implement
them this way - our votes are too important. I wouldn't trust
my Bank with computer systems this insecure; Hell, I wouldn't
keep recipes on a system this insecure. When I saw all of the
documentation regarding Diebold and their heavy partisan leanings,
and then when the results came flooding in with a clear Bush victory
when I seriously expected Kerry to win, I put two and two together.
I am, by trade, a professional White-Hat Hacker, so I know how
easily "secure" systems can be breached, especially
by insiders.
-
snip -
What
I found truly shocked me, and made me physically ill. That's
what is documented on the
other page. It IS that bad. I personally don't
have conclusive evidence that voter fraud was perpetrated, but
I can tell you as an Information Security professional that it
would have been very, very easy to do. If I had to choose between
someone conspiring with exit poll workers nationwide or someone
changing values in an Access Database as the cause of the difference
between the poll numbers and the "actual" results, I'll
go with the easier, more effective option every time. Why choose
the hard way when it's more trouble and you're less likely to
succeed? Again, I'm staying clear of making specific allegations
- I'll leave that to the activists who are gathering data -
but I would be much more surprised if the election weren't hacked
than to find out that it was.
-
snip -
Why
do I call Diebold partisan and unethical, you ask? How's
this:
"I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes
to the president." - Walden O'Dell, Diebold's CEO in a fundraising
letter to Republicans, Fall 2003. O'Dell and other Diebold
Senior Executives are Republican "Pioneers", which is
the designation you get when you raise over $100,000. His
brother is President of ES&S, the #2 vote machine maker, and
is also a "Pioneer". Is that partisan enough for
you? Well, what about calling them unethical?
Check this out - No less than 5 of Diebold's developers are convicted
felons, including Senior Vice President Jeff Dean, and topping
the list are his twenty-three counts of felony Theft in the First
Degree. According to the findings of fact in case no. 89-1-04034-1.
-
snip -
To
sum up, he was convicted of 23 felony counts of theft from by
- get this - planting back doors in his software and using
a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection.
Do you trust computer systems designed by this man? Is
trust important in electronic voting systems?
found
this over at Kos
-
Jordan
11/15/04
Bev
Harris is on the f%@king job!
While
we all sit here and discuss how sad it is we lost the election,
there are people out there in the trenches doing the work that could
change the course of history. People this is HUGE! Bev Harris from
Blackboxvoting.org
is the definition of patriot! Here is what she just posed on the
Democratic Underground Message board:
Volusia
County election records just got put on lockdown
Dueling
lawyers, election officials gnashing teeth, Votergate.tv film
crew catching it all.
Here's what happened so far:
Friday
Black Box Voting investigators Andy Stephenson and Kathleen Wynne
popped in to ask for some records. They were rebuffed by an elections
official named Denise. Bev Harris called on the cell phone from
investigations in downstate Florida, and told Volusia County Elections
Supervisor Deanie Lowe that Black Box Voting would be in to pick
up our Nov. 2 Freedom of Information request, or would file for
a hand recount. "No, Bev, please don't do that!" she exclaimed.
But this is the way it has to be, folks. We didn't back down.
Monday Bev, Andy and Kathleen came in with a film crew and asked
for the FOIA request. Deanie Lowe gave it to us with a smile,
but I noticed that
one item, the polling place tapes, were not copies of the real
ones, but instead were new printouts, done on Nov. 15, and not
signed by anyone.
I asked to see the real ones, and they told us for "privacy" reasons
we can't have copies of the signed ones. I insisted on at least
viewing them (although refusing to give us copies of the signatures
is not legally defensible, according to our attorney). They said
the real ones were in the County Elections warehouse. It was quittin'
time and we arranged to come back this morning to review them.
Lana Hires, an employee who gained some notoriety in a Diebold
memo, where she asked for an explanation of minus 16,022 votes
for Gore, so she wouldn't have to stand there "looking dumb" when
the auditor came in, was particularly unhappy about seeing us
in the office. She vigorously shook her head when Deanie Lowe
suggested we go to the warehouse.
Kathleen Wynne and I showed up at the warehouse at 8:15 this morning.
There was Lana Hires looking especially gruff, yet surprised.
She ordered us out. Well, we couldn't see why because there she
was, with a couple other people, handling the original poll tapes.
You know, the ones with the signatures on them. We stepped out
and they promptly shut the door behind us.
There was a trash bag on the porch outside the door. I looked
into it and what do you know, but there were poll tapes in there.
They came out and glared at us. We drove away a small bit, and
then videotaped the license plates of the two vehicles marked
'City Council' member. Others came out to glare and soon all doors
were slammed.
So, we went and parked behind a bus to see what they would do
next. They pulled out some large pylons, which blocked the door.
I decided to go look at the garbage some more. Kathleen videotaped
this. A man came out and I immediately wrote a public records
request for the contents of the garbage bag, which also contained
ballots -- real ones, but not filled out.
A brief tug of war occurred, tearing the garbage bag open. We
then looked through it, as Pete looked on. He was quite friendly.
We collected various poll tapes and other information and asked
if they could copy it for us, for our public records request.
"You won't be going anywhere," said Pete. "The deputy is on his
way."
Yes, not one but two police cars came up and then two county elections
officials, and we all stood around discussing the merits of my
public records request.
They finally let us go, about the time our film crew arrived,
and we all trooped off to the elections office. There, the plot
thickened.
We began to compare the special printouts given to us with the
signed polling tapes from election night. Lo and behold, some
were missing. We also found some that didn't match. In fact, in
one location, precinct 215, an African-American precinct, the
votes were off by hundreds, in favor of George W. Bush and other
Republicans.
Hmm. Which was right? Our polling tape, specially printed on Nov.
15, without signatures, or theirs, printed on Nov. 2, with up
to 8 signatures per tape?
Well, then it became even more interesting. Lana Hires took it
upon herself to box up some items from an office, which appeared
to contain -- you guessed it -- polling place tapes. She took
them to the back of the building and disappeared.
Then, voting integrity advocates from Volusia and Broward, decided
now would be a good time to go through the trash at the elections
office. Lo and behold, they found all kinds of memos and some
polling place tapes, fresh from Volusia elections office.
So, we compared these with the Nov. 2 signed ones and the "special'
ones from Nov. 15 given to us, unsigned, and we found several
of the MISSING poll tapes. There they were: In the garbage.
So, Kathleen went to the car and got the polling place tapes we
had pulled from the warehouse garbage. My my my. There were not
only discrepancies, but a polling place tape that was signed by
six officials.
This was a bit disturbing, since the employees there told us that
bag was destined for the shredder.
By now, a county lawyer had appeared on the scene, suddenly threatening
to charge us extra for the time we took looking at the real stuff
they had withheld from us in our FOIA. Other lawyers appeared,
phoned, people had meetings, Lana glowered at everyone, and someone
shut the door in the office holding the GEMS server.
Andy then went to get the GEMS server locked down. He also got
the memory cards locked down and secured, much to the dismay of
Lana. They were scattered around unsecured in any way before that.
We then all agreed to convene tomorrow morning, to further audit,
discuss the hand count that Black Box Voting will require of Volusia
County, and of course, it is time to talk about contesting the
election in Volusia.
Bev Harris Executive Director Black Box Voting
Together with Andy, and Kathleen. xxxooo
Wow...
Just wow....
-
Jordan
And
so it begins.....
Ohio
To Go Through Statewide Vote Recount After All
A statewide recount of the presidential vote appears inevitable
after a pair of third-party candidates said they have collected
enough money to pay for it.
The recount would be conducted after the election results are
certified in early December.
Libertarian Michael Badnarik and the Green Party's David Cobb
said on Monday they raised more than $150,000 in four days, mostly
in small contributions.
Ohio law requires payment of $10 per precinct for a recount, or
$113,600 statewide.
Badnarik and Cobb said they aren't trying to overturn President
Bush's 136,000-vote victory in Ohio, but just want to ensure that
all votes were counted properly in the face of concerns about
Election Day irregularities.
"Our bottom line is to stand up for the integrity of the
voting process because the voting process is the heart of the
democratic process," said Blair Bobier, spokesman for Cobb.
Bobier said it will be worth the price to ensure the final outcome
can be trusted.
Carlo LoParo, spokesman for Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell,
said the actual cost to county election boards combined will be
about $1.5 million.
And
meanwhile in Florida.......
Pinellas
ballot box sat ignored in office
Pinellas elections supervisor Deborah Clark will ask the state
for permission to change the county's official results.
The unmarked brown box sat unnoticed in the Pinellas Supervisor
of Elections office until Monday, two weeks after the election,
when an employee cleaning a desk stumbled upon it.
Inside were 268 uncounted absentee ballots.
-
Jordan
Its
good to be Condi
Lets
see, she presided over the biggest
national security lapse in history, she lied
to the 911 commission under oath, she lied about Saddam's
nuclear capability, right before the election, when the preznit
was telling us we were about to be attacked our national security
advisor was... wait for it...... stumping for Bush's re-election.
Looks
like its promotion
time!
Condoleezza
Rice, who will be named as Colin L. Powell's replacement as early
as today, has forged an extraordinarily close relationship with
President Bush. But, paradoxically, many experts consider her
one of the weakest national security advisers in recent history
in terms of managing interagency conflicts.
-
Jordan
11/15/04
CIA
Purge
Welcome
to the 3rd world. In the years leading up to 911 many people in
the CIA had been warning the white house about the dangers of a
terrorist attack on US soil. These same CIA agents also warned the
(s)elected president of the dangers
involved in invading Iraq. Well it seems like it is time
to reward them for good behavior. Bush is firing them all.
CIA
plans to purge its agency
Sources say White House has ordered new chief to eliminate officers
who were disloyal to Bush
Washington
- The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss,
to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal
to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging information
to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for
Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources.
Bob
Harris notes:
This
is worse than it seems at first. "Disloyalty"
here is the act of disagreeing. And since Bush and his cronies
were wrong and/or lying about damn near everything in the run-up
to the Iraq war, this means that everyone who actually did their
job is in jeopardy of losing it. Which will leave only sycophants,
incompetents, and those who've learned to play the game behind.
And you can be pretty certain that Bush is gonna hear --
and act on -- whatever faith-based apocalyptic nonsense he wants
in the next couple of years.
What that does to American security in the next couple of years...
let's just say it could be very, very loud.
A
daily kos Diary notes
This
is not freaking believable. When I first saw an article about
purges in the intelligence community, I (naively) thought it was
a purge of those responsible for intelligence failures. My mistake.
The story which follows is not unique, only we are used to hearing
about it after military coups in countries whose names many of
us are not entirely sure how to pronounce. But this is happening
right here. I am not one easily given to hyperbole, and I have
avoided words like "junta" in the past, but does this
sound like the behavior of a democratically elected leader of
a free nation?
I
think the low down is, if you were in the CIA and you did a good
job, your fired.
Good
times.
-
Jordan
This
is funny because it is true.
(Warning:
foul language used to make legitimate points)
Thanks
to Joel for the link
-
Jordan
Did
you hear the fat lady sing?
No.
You did not. That is because this election is not over. And I can
prove it faster than you can say "tinfoil hat".
Let
me direct you to this diary post over at Dailykos
(the post has a million comments on it and takes forever to load,
so I will put a good chunk of it below. The rest is here.)
Folks,
it's not over. I don't think the Kerry folks think it's
over either. If I'm right, and if it comes out the way I
think it might, it will be the greatest stealth campaign in the
history of the world, quite frankly.
Let's pull it together. Right now, it's 286-252 in favor
of Bush. Ohio has not even begun to count the provisional
ballots. There are 155,000 or so. Ohio has a history
of provisional ballots, based on state law. In 2000, 90%
of the ballots counted, and of those I understand that 90% were
for Gore. Applying that standard to the 155,000 would give
Kerry 125,550 additional votes, and Bush 13,950. That would
narrow the margin from 132,000 (the 136,000 figure includes the
now-infamous Gahanna 4,000 vote error in Franklin County) down
to about 24,600. Originally, this was why Kerry conceded;
he just couldn't get it done on the provisional ballots alone.
Ahh, but now there's a new development. A recount (or an
"audit," as one diary called it). Fine. Whatever,
call it what you want. But Kerry couldn't ask for it, because
he'd be called a sore loser, Al Gore with a Brahmin accent. The
lawyers are there, they're sniffing around, they're ready to deal
with the shenanigans. But (here's the great part) it's not
Kerry's recount. The media is treating the Cobb/Badnarik
recount request as a joke, but it's not. If the recount
is held, the first thing elections officials have to do is dust
off the 93,000 undervotes on punch cards (dear God, not again)....
Again, look at the history. Traditionally, 90% count, and
the split is about 4-1 for Democrats -- undervotes are almost
exclusively from poor and/or minority areas. Take 93,000,
90% is 83,700. 80% of that is 66,960 for Kerry, with 16,740
for Bush. That 24,600 vote Bush lead after the provisionals
now goes to . . . . fanfare, please . . . . ladies and gentlemen,
I give you the 44th President of the United States, John Kerry,
by a 25,660 vote margin in Ohio.
- snip -
I think that one of the reasons that Bush has been accepting a
lot of Cabinet resignations now, rather than in January, is to
create an inevitability in the minds of the public and the media
that this is a done deal. No one in the media is dealing
with the analysis I set forth herein, which is not my own analysis,
but simply a mathematical exercise gleaned from what little public
information is out there. The media went home on 11/3, and
other than a few smirking "conspiracy" stories since,
has not really addressed the final counting of votes in Ohio or
elsewhere. Bush's lead in New Mexico has been cut from 14,000
to less than 6,000, and they're still counting.
Repeat after me: it ain't over til they count the votes.
Which means it ain't over. Will Kerry win? No
idea. Can he win? Yes.
The
rest
UPDATE:
Recount in Ohio A Sure Thing; Green Party Campaign Raises $150,000
in 4 Days, Shifts Gears to Phase II
WASHINGTON
-- November 15 -- There will be a recount of the presidential
vote in Ohio.
On Thursday, David Cobb, the Green Party’s 2004 presidential
candidate, announced his intention to seek a recount of the vote
in Ohio. Since the required fee for a statewide recount is $113,600,
the only question was whether that money could be raised in time
to meet the filing deadline. That question has been answered.
-
Jordan
11/12/04
Are
voting machines partisan?
All
the voting errors in Ohio and Florida have benefited Republicans.
We know that the people who make this equipment are long time supporters
of the republican party.
We know that they refuse to implement security measures.
We know that ATM machines on the street have more securty than these
voting machines.
We know that when you buy a pair of shoes online, there is more
advanced security measures in place, than there is when you cast
your vote for president.
We know they have fought hard to prevent adding a paper trail.
We know they refuse to let anyone see the source code.
We know that there were a large numbers of errors in this years
election, all stemming from the use of the equipment.
We know that all these errors have benefited republicans. Sometimes
actually reversing the counts so that in a county that is 75% Democratic,
a 75% Republican vote is tallied in the computer.
We also know that one way to detect these discrepancies is to look
at exit polls.
We know the exit polls this year were showing a Kerry
win by a large margin. (PDF file)
We know that just today the GOP has begun an effort to do
away with exit polling all together.
Connect the friggin' dots people.
"I
am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the
president next year." - Walden O'Dell, chief executive
of Diebold Inc.
This is why we need to do hand recounts wherever it is possible
to do so. Because when the recount is done by hand, the Democrats
win.
Case in point:
Computer
Glitch Changes Election Result
(AP)
-- A hand recount of ballots cast using optical scanning technology
gave a Democrat enough extra votes to bump a Republican from victory
in a county commissioner's race.
The erroneous tally was caused when the Fidlar Election Co. scanning
system recorded straight-Democratic Party votes as votes for Libertarians
in southeastern Indiana's Franklin County.
Advertisement
The recount Thursday pushed Democrat Carroll Lanning from fifth
to third in the three-seat commissioners race, while Republican
Roy Hall fell to fifth.
Democrats had suspected a glitch after preliminary election results
included a Libertarian congressional candidate winning 7.7 percent
of the vote in Franklin County, more than four times better than
he did across the entire district.
It
is worth noting that the faulty machine in this case was sold by
Fidlar, but was made by Dieblod.
If
you are like me, you read all this and you ask yourself, "where
the hell is Kerry on all this?" Well don't worry. He is on
the ball. You
should read this.
Click
here if you are wondering you you can help.
-
Jordan
GOP
wants to do away with exit polls
As
many by now have heard, the exit polls in our recent debacle.. I
mean, election, showed a strong Kerry win. The exit polls however
did not match up with the final election results. Oddly enough in
all the areas where there was electronic voting equipment in use,
the exit polls don't match the computer tallies. In areas using
paper ballots, the exit polls match just fine. If you were to cheat
using electronic voting machines in an election, the exit polls
would be the one obstacle in your way. This is because they would
not match up with the numbers in the computer.
If you want to know more about the exit polls check
this out. (PDF file)
In a related
story, the GOP has now begun its attempt to do away with
exit polling all together.
Here
is a teaser:
After
early exit polls in Tuesday's election inaccurately suggested
that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry would trounce
President Bush, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie
is recommending that major news organizations pull the plug on
the prognostications.
In remarks Thursday at the National Press Club, Mr. Gillespie
said he is among those who were stunned by exit poll reports,
which leaked widely on the Internet. "I would encourage the
media to abandon exit surveys on Election Day and do what we do
in the political profession -- look at the precincts and the turnout,
see who's turning out to vote,; Mr. Gillespie said. "Don't
build a model that you try to, you know, build your own thoughts
into of what you expect it to be."
Mr.
Gillespie conceded that the exit polls weren't reported directly
by major news organizations themselves. "But with the Internet
today, we're kidding ourselves, aren't we, to think that everybody
in America doesn't know what the exit data is showing?" he
said.
But
why would they want to do that? That would make it very easy to
cheat.
read
the rest
-
Jordan
My
friends deep
thoughts about the election
I,
for One, Welcome Our New Republican Overlords
I'm beginning to think that all of us who voted for Kerry just
have a bad attitude. Maybe they're right - we are "nattering
nabobs of negativity"**. Well, I'm going to change my tune,
here are things I'm looking forward to from another 4 years of
our beloved President:
1. By cleverly melding the Bible with the U.S. Constitution, civics
classes & Sunday school can be integrated, saving time for
teaching more important subjects like "Creationism Science"
and "A Preschooler's Guide to Modern Urban and Desert Combat."
2. Admit it, having Iraq and Iran side by side on the map was
really confusing. (Hell, til about say 1991, you couldn't remember
which was which anyway.) In 4 years or so, no problem: Say "Hello"
to Haliburtistan!
3. Sure, it will probably disrupt our global food supply leading
to starvation & wars, and yeah, it will definitely result
in even more mass extinctions, but global warming could bring
us a warmer, more tropical San Francisco! (& probably more
hurricanes bashing %$^&*ing Florida)
There
is much more. Check out the deepblog
-
Jordan
11/10/04
Made
many changes to the store
Now
that the election has ended certain designs have been removed. To
make up for it I have added a few new options including these two
oval stickers as well as a T-shirt
design that is more appropriate now, than ever.
Hard
work indeed....
-
Jordan
File
this one under "cool ideas I wish I had thought of"
The
global apology program
