The BRAD BLOG:November 2006

UPDATE! DEBRA BOWEN ANNOUNCED WINNER OVER LYING, DEMOCRACY-HATING CALIFORNIA SEC. OF STATE BRUCE MCPHERSON!

(Not that we have any particularly strong feelings about the race)

By Brad Friedman on 11/8/2006 9:46am PT

UPDATED 10:38am PT: AP is now reporting that Debra Bowen has won the Secretary of State's race in California! This is a huge win for those of us who care about Election Integrity in America! Perhaps the most important race in the nation on that front! More on this later today!

The California Sec. of State's website reports the disingenuous, lying, Diebold-loving, democracy-hating California Sec. of State Bruce McPherson trails freedom-loving, voter-supporting State Senator Debra Bowen in the race for California Sec. of State. As of this moment, Bowen reportedly leads 48.5% to 44.7%.

It's currently the only statewide race that's yet to be called by AP. We hope that conpsiracy theorist McPherson doesn't cry fraud and he soon realizes, for the good of the state, that it's time to concede, get over it, and move on.

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VIDEO - Chris Matthews Finds Keith Olbermann 'Bracing' and 'Proactive' and...

By Alan Breslauer on 11/8/2006 2:24am PT

Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer

At the end of the joint Olbermann - Matthews election coverage Chris Matthews, a bit condescendingly, opines about Olbermann's show which he finds "bracing" and "provocative" and...

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VIDEO - Bob Shrum Quiets Norah O'Donnell

By Alan Breslauer on 11/8/2006 2:13am PT

Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer

Bob Shrum stops Norah O'Donnell from waxing stupid before giving way to some talk about the Republican Senate offering the world to Joe Lieberman in order to prevent Democrat control. Finally, the clip ends with some pretty hearty laughter from Chris Matthews and the gang.

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VIDEO - Kitty Pilgrim Reports on Early E-Voting Problems

By Alan Breslauer on 11/7/2006 11:02pm PT

Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer

Earlier today, on Lou Dobbs Tonight, Kitty Pilgrim reported on a number of E-Voting problems.

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CLINT CURTIS VOWS TO VERIFY TOM FEENEY ELECTION RESULTS

Says Will Do 'Forensic Reconstruction' to Determine 'If Election is Supported by Actual Voters'

By Jim Cirile on 11/7/2006 10:27pm PT

Guest Blogged by Jim Cirile

As of midnight EST, MSNBC reported that with 90% of the vote in, Tom Feeney was projected to win FL-24 57%-43%.

As loyal BRAD BLOG readers know, Feeney, one of CREW's 20 Most Corrupt Congressmen, was being challenged for his congressional seat by election fraud whistle-blower Clint Curtis, who alleges Feeney asked software designer Curtis to design vote-rigging software.

Curtis just got off the phone with BRAD BLOG'S Brad Friedman, broadcasting live in the Election Meltdown-apalooza. Curtis says he "apparently lost 57-43%" based on MSNBC results with 90% of the vote in --- but notes that there were "oddities" --- for example in some districts there were more Republican votes than there are registered Republicans. Of course, some Dems or independents could have voted for Feeney, but statistically, that is highly unlikely.

Curtis says "We have a lot of feet we'll be putting on the ground," and he will now do a "forensic reconstruction" to find out "if the actual election is supported by actual voters." Imagine that!

Note that there are STILL no numbers being reported from Seminole County per the FL Sec. State website (as of 12:06 PM EST).

In short, Curtis is not conceding. We say BRAVO! If he lost fair and square, that's fine, we will all accept that. It's the "fair and square" part we are just a bit uncertain of. Who was it who once said "Trust Yet Verify"? Why, it was Ronald Reagan. Wise man occasionally, it turns out. Stay tuned for more news from FL-24. It's likely this story may continue for awhile. And that, friends, is a good thing.

UPDATE: 2:20 AM Eastern time with 99% reporting:

District 24
Tom Feeney (R) 122,938 58%
Clint Curtis (D) 89,158 42%

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Article Categories: Election Irregularities, Florida, Tom Feeney, Clint Curtis, Election 2006, Election Fraud

CONTINUED ELECTION INTEGRITY OPEN THREAD

Getting too hard for our dial-up friends on the other thread.

By Agent 99 on 11/7/2006 9:27pm PT

Continuing the previous thread... which includes more details on the Election Integrity Broadcast Marathon with Peter B. Collins and Brad Friedman (listen up right here!)

Everyone, please start commenting on this thread now. We want to hear from our dial-up friends, and long threads knock them out of the conversation.

UPDATE FROM BRAD: Feel free to call in as well at 888-573-8372 and let us know how we're doing! Thanks Kira and 99 for doing a beautiful job here! Jim Cirile to blog a fresh Clint Curtis item shortly I'm told!

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VIDEO - Rick Santorum Concedes

By Alan Breslauer on 11/7/2006 8:30pm PT

Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer

Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum concedes to Senator elect Bob Casey.

UPDATE FROM BRAD 11/8/06 7:56pm: Please note, his concession came only after he succeeded in getting the PA Republican Party to send a letter to Secretary of the Commonwealth demanding that voting machines in 27 counties be impounded after reports that Republican votes were flipping to Democratic on touch-screen machines. Ya don't hear that very often. We support the impounding of those machines...though we received late-night reports that Santorum and the GOP had withdrawn their request. More soon...

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Article Categories: Election Irregularities, Pennsylvania, Election 2006, Touch-Screen Vote Flipping

'Daily Voting News' For November 7, 2006

By John Gideon on 11/7/2006 5:59pm PT

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

David Tom, elections manager, county of San Mateo: "I feel very secure in the machines and how they work. We do a lot of testing on these machines and we're absolutely 100 percent sure these machines will work the way they do." Huh?? / “We can expect that things will go smoother this November,” said Michelle Shafer, spokeswoman for Sequoia. In other words, more problems will be blamed on 'human error' than in previous elections. / Tonights DVN is more heavily weighted toward reports of problems and less to the editorials and opinions. Some of the news services and local media outlets are talking about the 'minor glitches' and ignoring the major failures across the country. Today's election proved Ms. Shafer wrong but the blame will go on the 'human error' just the same....

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Charlie Cook Underestimated Democratic Gains?

By Alan Breslauer on 11/7/2006 5:58pm PT

Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer

Charlie Cook tells Chris Matthews that if he is wrong in predicting Democratic House gains in the 20 to 35 range, that he'd now guess he was on the low end.

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ELECTION NIGHT INTEGRITY BROADCAST MARATHON OPEN THREAD!

Listen Along with Peter B. Collins and Brad Friedman All Night Long From Coast to Coast!

A Velvet Revolution Election Protection Strike Force Marathon! A RAW RADIO Network Event!

By Agent 99 on 11/7/2006 4:27pm PT

Now broadcasting coast-to-coast! Click right here to listen on the net!

Chat, chat, chat away with your hosts Agent 99 and Kira! Thanks guys! I'll try to keep my eyes on this thread!

Expected guests to include Greg Palast (on now), John Gideon, Clint Curtis, DeForest Soaries, Bev Harris, Mike Malloy, The Young Turks, Steve Young, Rebecca Abrahams, and many many more!

Plus your calls! Call us at 1-888-5-PeterB (1-888-573-8372).

All with your hosts Peter B. Collins and Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com all night long until at least Midnight PT (3am ET).

Thanks to RAW STORY for helping support this special RAW RADIO Event! And to the good folks at WhiteRoseSociety.org who are streaming us, along with KPFTx.org (and more that we'll add here soon!)

{PLEASE MOVE TO NEW COMMENT THREAD NOW EVERYONE... --99}

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Scarborough, Shrum and Buchanan on E-Voting, Paper Trails and More

By Alan Breslauer on 11/7/2006 2:37pm PT

Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer

Joe Scarborough, Bob Shrum and Pat Buchanan all go off on e-voting machines earlier today. Scarborough and Shrum also wonder what Republican's have against paper trails. All three pundits look for Democrats to retake the House.

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MELTDOWN '06: Orange County CA Candidate Says Machines Down, No Paper Ballots Available...

Voters in Predominently Dem Areas Unable to Vote, Some Voting on Paper Ballots in Chinese and Vietnamese as English Ballots Not Available...

By Brad Friedman on 11/7/2006 2:24pm PT

I just got off the phone with Steve Young, the Democratic candidate in CA-48 (Orange County). He reports that his office is receiving calls from at least 8 precincts of voting machines down with no paper ballots available for voters. All, he says, in strongly Democratic areas of the otherwise conservative Orange County. ~~I believe they use ES&S voting machines down there.~~ Several Emailers have contacted us to let us know it's Hart Intercivic machines in use down there, not ES&S.

He says voters were either being turned away without being able to vote at all, or voting on Chinese and Vietnamese paper ballots --- since English ones are not available --- just so they are able to vote!

By the time we were done with the call, a staffer came in with a report from machines down in a Republican area, but said the machines were fixed quickly, whereas one of the reports you'll see below (transcribed during our quick phone conversation) shows poll workers repeatedly trying to get help from the Registrar to no avail.

NOTES FROM PHONE CALL WITH STEVE YOUNG (CA-48)

Calls coming in to our office, 8 reports all in highly Democratic precincts...

8:35am - Two precincts in an elementary school (#59100 and #59102) had no machines working, no paper ballots, at least 15 people were seen leaving the polls without voting.

8:40am - All machines down in polling place with two precincts in it (#'s 59058 & 5916) all machines down, no English paper ballots, people voted on Chinese and Vietnamese ballots just to vote!

9:10am - Same precincts and also #59161 is completely out of paper ballots.

9:30am - Another precinct (I didn't get the number) had two of the machines down, line is out the door (at least 40 people reported to be in line)

Within the hour - Prcts #59075 and 59076, machines down, poll workers tried six times to get attention to fix the machines.

We're in contact with the Registrar, they promise they're going to deliver English paper ballots to all of the precincts. They claim they are telling poll workers that folks should vote on paper and that they don't have to vote on the machine....if there are such ballots available of course.

Please note, a memo from the CA Sec. of State last month had said all voters who wished to vote on paper in California may do so, but he left it up to them how many would be "an adequate supply." He also said they should be counted as "normal ballots" and not as provisional ballots which are usually counted days later, if ever. None of those orders seems to be being enforced anywhere in CA, as far as I can tell.

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Article Categories: Bruce McPherson, California, Election Reform, Hart InterCivic, Election 2006, Paper Ballots Legislation

MELTDOWN '06: 'Voting Nightmare' Reported by Denver Post

Dems Seek Extension of Voting Times after Hundreds of Voters Turned Away from Polls as Machines Fail...

'We Will Not Get to Vote Today' Says Voter Turned Away After an Hour Who Had Arrived at 6:45am...

By Brad Friedman on 11/7/2006 1:19pm PT

From Denver Post...

Democratic party leaders are planning to seek a two-hour extension for voting in Denver, due to massive computer problems which have created long lines, and kept many from casting their vote.
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The problems began right at 7 a.m. as computer problems at the voter-check in stations bogged down, creating a bottleneck in the first hour of voting as a rush to the polls overloaded the system.
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At Denver Botanic Gardens, more than 200 voters backed up in a line that stretched out of the gates and down the block more than half way to 11th Avenue.

"We will not get to vote today," said a frustrated Lauren Brockman as he left the Botanic Gardens.

He lined up at 6:45 a.m. hoping to beat the rush, only to stand in line for close to an hour before leaving.

But an hour wait was short, compared to some.

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Article Categories: Election Irregularities, Colorado, Election 2006, Paper Ballots Legislation

MELTDOWN '06: AP - 'Polling places turn to paper ballots after glitches'

Voting Machine Companies (as expected) Blame 'Human Error'... (True enough, since the idiots who created these machines, and agreed to use them are most likely 'human')

By Brad Friedman on 11/7/2006 1:08pm PT

First, they're not "glitches"...They are failures! This from AP...

Programming errors and inexperience dealing with electronic voting machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts early Tuesday, delaying voters in Indiana, Ohio and Florida and leaving some with little choice but to use paper ballots instead.

In Cleveland, voters rolled their eyes as election workers fumbled with new touchscreen machines that they couldn't get to start properly until about 10 minutes after polls opened.

"We got five machines --- one of them's got to work," said Willette Scullank, a troubleshooter from the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, elections board.

In Indiana's Marion County, about 175 of 914 precincts turned to paper ballots because poll workers didn't know how to run the machines, said Marion County Clerk Doris Ann Sadler. She said it could take most of the day to fix all of the machine-related issues.

Election officials in Delaware County, Indiana, extended voting hours because voters initially couldn't cast ballots in 75 precincts. County Clerk Karen Wenger said the cards that activate the push-button machines were programmed incorrectly but the problems were fixed by late morning.

Pennsylvania's Lebanon County also extended polling hours because a programming error forced some voters to cast paper ballots.

As expected --- and you'll be seeing and hearing a lot of this all night --- the Voting Machine Companies who have created the equivalent of Ford Pintos with these machine that "blow up" during normal use, no matter how careful a "driver" might be, are blaming "human error"...as opposed to themselves...and the election officials who were dumb enough to be suckered in by the wining and dining and false promises of the company lobbyists who are plying their insidious trade courtesy of your tax payer dollars...

But voting equipment companies said they hadn't seen anything beyond the norm and blamed the problems largely on human error.

"Any time there's more exposure to equipment, there are questions about setting up the equipment and things like that," said Ken Fields, a spokesman for Election Systems & Software Inc. "Overall, things are going very well."

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MELTDOWN '06: Diebold Voting Machines Failing to Start Up in Utah, Voters Being Turned Away...

Smartcard Encoders Reportedly Not Working...Paper Ballots Not Available Everywhere...

By Brad Friedman on 11/7/2006 12:17pm PT

From Salt Lake Tribune in Utah, the state which ran the 23-year elected Emery County, UT Election Administrator, Bruce Funk out of a job when he dared allowed independent investigators to test the new Diebold touch-screen systems forced on him by the state...

Utah County voters planning to cast their ballots on the way to work were stymied by technical problems with the state's new voting machines, while some in Salt Lake City also saw delays at the polls.

Robert Nelson was among those in Provo and other locations in Utah County who were unable to cast their votes using the new voting machines when the polls opened. After arriving at his polling location at 7 a.m., Nelson said he spent an hour and a half hoping the machines would be fixed.

"The workers were earnestly trying to get the machines to work, but not a one in our precint worked," Nelson said. "I work in Salt Lake City, so I couldn't wait for the machines to work."

Similar reports came in from other areas in Utah County, including Lindon. The clerk's office said the problem had been solved and the machines were up and running as of 8:55 a.m.

In Salt Lake City, some locations only had one machine up and running when the polls opened at 7 a.m.

No voting machines were initially operational at Highland High School, although some 25 people were already waiting in line to vote when the location opened.

The local ABC affiliate is reporting the Lt. Governor (a big supporter of Diebold, as we recall) says the problem is in the voting card encoders...

Utah's Lt. Governor Gary Herbert says voting machine encoders, used to program individual user cards have been incorrectly programmed, causing delays for many voters, primarily in Utah County.

Herbert says the problem is associated with voter card encoding machines, which have failed to function properly.
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Many voters have experienced delays, and have been told to come back later.

Some voters have opted to use paper ballots, which are also available at most, if not all polling locations.

Herbert says the primary encoding machine problem has not been fixed, but provisional systems have been put in place and no one should be turned away.

Too late, Lt. Governor. Nice going.

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