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• Hackers Make Quick Work Of Most California Voting Machines

  Published: July 30, 2007, 9:14 am

  Tags: Voting Rights

  review” of every voting system certified by the state. Neither Bowen nor the investigators were willing to say exactly how vulnerable California elections are to computer hackers, especially because the team of computer experts from the UC system had top-of-the-line security information plus more time and better access to the voting

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• Republicans Move To Stealthily Steal Electoral Votes

  Published: July 31, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Voting Rights

  I’m not a big fan of the electoral college system, but this article doesn’t make me feel better about amending it. The New Yorker: At first glance, next year’s Presidential election looks like a blowout. But it might not be. Luckily for the incumbent party, neither George W. Bush nor Dick Cheney will be running; indeed, the

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• Jonah Goldberg Endorses Jim Crow

  Published: August 1, 2007, 6:02 pm

  Tags: Right Wing Pundits, Voting Rights

  vote; why not all citizens?A voting test would point the arrow of civic engagement up, instead of down, sending the signal that becoming an informed citizen is a valued accomplishment. Golly gee whillikers, Mistah Goldberg, why don’t we have tests at the polls here in America? Although, I seem to remember a historical precedent for just

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• Senate Backpedals On Legislation Requiring Paper Trail For E-Voting Machines

  Published: August 1, 2007, 8:38 pm

  Tags: Election 08, Campaigns Elections, Voting Rights

  push for banning electronic voting machines that lack paper trails, but they’ve backed away from doing so in time for next year’s presidential election. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chief sponsor of a contentious bill called the Ballot Integrity Act that proposes such changes, said she fears requiring all states to employ

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• Ann Coulter's Voter Fraud Case Is Still Alive

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:15 pm

  Tags: Voting Rights, Ann Coulter

  but Annie’s little voting faux pas is not resolved yet. Fogg catches this item from the local news. The Palm Beach Post reports today that FEC Case No. 07-211 is still alive and well and that Coulter is still under investigation. WPB campaign consultant Richard Giorgio has filed a complaint accusing her of false swearing and fraud to

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• CA Secretary of State Decertifies Majority LA County E-voting Machines

  Published: August 4, 2007, 5:35 pm

  Tags: Voting Rights

  Election Systems and Sequoia Voting Systems — Bowen said she would allow just one machine per polling place, apparently to provide an accessible option for disabled voters. Electronic voting critics had unsuccessfully lobbied Bowen’s predecessor to stop the machines’ use in California. More than three dozen California counties

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• Dirty Tricks Initiative in California has ties to Swift Boat Supporter

  Published: September 4, 2007, 1:33 pm

  Tags: Progressive Politics Action, Voting Rights

  Just in case you weren’t sure whether this Dirty Tricks initiative was a naked power grab on the part of the GOP in true blue California… San Jose Mercury News: (reg. req’d) Lawyers behind a California ballot proposal that could benefit the 2008 Republican presidential nominee have ties to a Texas homebuilder who financed

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• New Democratic Slogan

  Published: September 7, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Voting Rights, Grass Roots, Contempt Of Congress, Constitutional Crisis, Snark Amp Amp Sass, Fear, Action, Corruption In Govt, Sumo S Posts, Culture, Federal Government, 08 Elections, Presidential Candidates, Politics

  Here’s the new unveiled Democrat bumper sticker slogan for the 2008 campaign that will be hitting the cars and streets near you. I hope it doesn’t mean violence on the part of the people that occupy the right side of the isle. While I think it is a good one (a Californian from [...]

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• Canada Invites Voter Fraud

  Published: September 8, 2007, 4:26 pm

  Tags: Canada, Voting Rights, Islamists

  Elections Canada, which oversees Canadian federal elections, announced that it will allow people who completely cover their faces to vote in Canadian elections with their face covered. Story from the National Post.Veiled women will be able to vote in the upcoming Quebec byelections -- and all future federal contests -- without showing their faces,

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• Attorney Seeks Probe of California Electoral Vote Plan

  Published: September 8, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Campaigns Elections, Voting Rights

  Contra Costa Times: (reg. req’d) A Lafayette attorney who specializes in election law is seeking a Congressional investigation into whether the White House was involved in pushing a California ballot initiative to change the way the state allocates its electoral votes. Barry Fadem, who is working for the group opposed to the initiative,

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• Attorney Seeks Probe of California Electoral Vote Plan

  Published: September 9, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Campaigns Elections, Voting Rights

  Contra Costa Times: (reg. req’d) A Lafayette attorney who specializes in election law is seeking a Congressional investigation into whether the White House was involved in pushing a California ballot initiative to change the way the state allocates its electoral votes. Barry Fadem, who is working for the group opposed to the initiative,

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• Vote Or Die Dept.: Someday, Eleanor Holmes Norton Might Be Slightly Less Useless

  Published: September 12, 2007, 1:52 pm

  Tags: Civil Rights, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Joe Lieberman, Orrin Hatch, Utah, Vote Die Dept, Voting Rights, Washington Dc

  In what world could the partnership of Orrin Hatch, Joe Lieberman, and Tom Davis becalled “bipartisan”? When Eleanor Holmes Norton is getting cozy with them, obv, so she can finally have...

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• Vote Or Die Dept.: Someday, Eleanor Holmes Norton Might Be Slightly Less Useless

  Published: September 12, 2007, 1:52 pm

  Tags: Civil Rights, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Joe Lieberman, Orrin Hatch, Utah, Vote Die Dept, Voting Rights, Washington Dc

  may only be allowed equal rights if white nutjobs in the hinterlands get a little something in return for their troubles. Oh, these four all “wrote” an op-ed today, that’s why we’re talking about it. Fun Facts we learned about DC voting rights, after the jump. “The D.C. Voting Rights Act is aptly seen as

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• Armed Madhouse: Don't become a victim of voter fraud in 2008

  Published: September 13, 2007, 3:36 pm

  Tags: Voting Rights, Books Book Reviews

  sheet. Regarding black box voting. Palast insists that while touch screen voting is a real threat, it is really a McGuffin that will not do as much damage as feared. It is the total overall ballot and registration dumping that caused Democrats to lose two elections they actually won with ease. Now the new boogieman is the voter ID card needed

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• at it again

  Published: September 14, 2007, 8:59 am

  Tags: Judiciary, Voting Rights, Constitutional Crisis, Action, Corruption In Govt, Federal Government, 08 Elections, Betmo S Posts

  of Justice’s Voting Section is pressuring 10 states to purge voter rolls before the 2008 election based on statistics that former Voting Section attorneys and other experts say are flawed and do not confirm that those states have more voter registrations than eligible voters, as the department alleges. Voting Section Chief John

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