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‘Inconsistencies’ Reported in Results from Snohomish County, WA’s GOP Caucus

Caucus Votes, Not Delegates, May Have Been Used to Derive Evergreen State's Still-Incomplete Results

ALSO: State Party Chair, 'Esser the Suppressor,' Closely Allied, Beholden to McCain's State Campaign Chair...

WA GOP Chair, Esser the Suppressor: ‘To win the election, we have to keep as many of these loudmouth leftists and shiftless deadbeats away from the polls as possible’

The Man Who Stopped Counting GOP Caucus Votes...in His Earlier Days...

Huckabee Today: 'This is Not What We do in American Elections...That's How They Used to Conduct it in the old Soviet Union'

Diebold Admits Overstating ’07 Election Revenue by 300%; Announces 5% Workforce Layoff as Feds Continue Investigations and Stock Price Keeps Falling

Company Forced to Restate Revenue as Shares Devalued More than 50% Since Insider Sell-Off Last Summer, Renaming of Election Division to 'Premier'...

Huckabee ‘Not Ready to Concede,’ ‘Looking at Some Legal Issues’ in ‘Dubious’ Washington State GOP Caucus

Says 'Weird Things' Going On as Party Stops Counting Votes at 87%, Declares McCain 'Winner' with Just 242 Vote Margin out of nearly 14,000 Reported Tallied So Far

Paul Currently in Third Place, Just 427 Votes Behind Huckabee as Louisiana GOP Race Shows Even Slimmer Margin for 'Winner' Huckabee by less than 1%, Tallied on Fully Unverifiable Sequoia Electronic Voting Machines...

Obama Camp Sends ‘Urgent Request for Assistance’ to Louisiana SoS as Voters Find Party Registration Switched

Cites 'Widespread Reports' of Problems During Today's Primary, as Registration Issues in State After State Begin to Emerge

New Statewide Computerized Voter Roll Systems, Mandated by Help America Vote Act, Privatized by Voting Machine Companies Criticized by Experts...

Privatization of New Mexico Voting Rolls May Have Played Major Role in Super Tuesday’s Democratic Caucus Mess

Contracts with Unaccountable Private Vendors Like ES&S in NM and Elsewhere, Continue Taking Costly Toll on American Democracy...

Pittsburgh Evening News: Hackable Allegheny County Voting Systems Left Unguarded, Memory Cartridges Gone, Felons Working as Election Judges

Conspiracy Theories Well-Researched and Responsible Investigative MSM Report Actually Informs Viewers About Usually-Unreported Yet Very Well-Documented Dangers of Touch-Screen Voting, Horrendous Administrative Oversight Prior to Upcoming Presidential Primary...

Fox ‘News’ Labels McCain a Democrat

They Just Can't Help Themselves...

VIDEO: Mukasey Testifies He Will Not Enforce Contempt Citations Against Administration Officials

Stonewalls Wexler's Questions in Judiciary Committee Hearings

ALSO: 'Conyers Says He's On Edge of Impeachment Hearings,' According to Report by David Swanson...

Filling in the Ovals on LA County’s Super Tuesday ‘Double Bubble’ Debacle

Confusion Reigns, Legal Challenges Loom as Hundreds of Thousands Votes May Not be Counted Due to Maddeningly Confusing Ballot Design, Procedures

UPDATED: Registar's Office Say They Plan to Examine Non-Partisan Ballots, Will 'Seek Legal Authority to Count Those Votes'...

Say What? – Party Official Kept Uncounted Ballox Boxes at Home Overnight as 200 Vote Margin Currently Seen in New Mexico’s Democratic Caucus

17,000 Voters Forced to Vote on Provisional Ballots After Being Dropped from Registration Rolls 'Maintained' by SoS and Voting Machine Company, ES&S

Few Explanations Available Yet for Any of It, Governor Richardson 'Deeply Disturbed' by Reports...

Other Than That, Mrs. Lincoln, How Was the Play? – LA Times Reports ‘Few Election Glitches, Except for Independents’

ALSO: Video Indicates Los Angeles Registration Problems for Republicans as well...

Super Wednesday – Election Report Triage Open Thread

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