Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is currently reading all 35 Articles of Impeachment, against George W. Bush, on the floor of the House of Representatives.

I'm on the radio for the moment, so see RAW STORY for details. I may have more soon.

UPDATE: Now back home, and watching Kucinich myself on C-SPAN. He's been reading for hours, and may have hours ahead still. As mentioned on the air, I was consulted for these Articles of Impeachment and submitted a number of suggestions and material concerning impeachable offenses related to election tampering by George W. Bush and his agents. Don't know whether those articles are still in the final version. We shall see. But I wanted to be sure to disclose that.

No doubt we'll be talking about this tomorrow on the PBC Show (which I'm Guest Hosting all week). We're trying to get Kucinich for tomorrow's show...if he still has any voice left.

FURTHER UPDATE: Looks like the election-related Articles of Impeachment made it into the final version, including a mention of GOP "voter fraud" sheister Mark F. "Thor" Hearne of front-group American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR). Nice to see Hearne get the recognition on the floor of the U.S. Congress that he so richly deserves.

STILL MORE: Reuters coverage notes Kucinich "defied his party leadership" in filing. AP incorrectly writes:

In fact, his Articles of Impeachment against Dick Cheney were not "killed," they were sent to the House Judiciary Committee, where they remain without action having been taken on them by the Dem leadership, despite best efforts by folks like Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), and others.

AND STILL MORE (from Alan):

POST-ADJOURNMENT UPDATE: Just prior to midnight ET, Kucinich finally finished reading the list of High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Equal Justice Society writes:

FINAL UPDATE: The entire resolution has been posted here, in both HTML and PDF format.

Scott McClellan has previously said he'd be "happy" to testify before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. Looks like he's about to get his chance. On June 20th. Unlike Karl Rove, who said he'd similarly be happy to tell his story (on the Siegelman affair) to Congress, we suspect McClellan will actually keep his word.

This just in from Conyers' office...

For Immediate Release: June 9, 2008

Conyers Invites McClellan to Testify June 20th

(Washington, DC)- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) invited former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan to testify before the Committee at a June 20th hearing about reported efforts to cover up the role of the White House in the Valerie Plame leak as described in his recent book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception.

I have extended an invitation to Mr. McClellan to testify before the Judiciary Committee after discussions between Committee staff and his attorneys, said Conyers. In his book, Mr. McClellan suggests that senior WhiteHouse officials may have obstructed justice and engaged in a cover-up regarding the Valerie Plame leak. This alleged activity could well extend beyond the scope of the offenses for which Scooter Libby has been convicted and deserves further attention. A copy of Chairman Conyers' letter is attached.

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The letter referred to above is just a single paragraph invitation, and largely restates the above.

UPDATE: McClellan accepts invitation. Public Record has details...

I'll be Guest Hosting the syndicated Peter B. Collins Show every day this week, except for Wednesday, while the good PBC enjoys some down time (in Ohio of all places!)

We'll be BradCasting live from the studios of KTLK AM1150 in Los Angeles from 3p - 6p PT (6p - 9p ET). Please tune in, call in, stream in, blog in...whatever ya got!

My guests for today (Monday) include...

• DAVID SIROTA: Columnist, investigative journalist, and author of The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington will join me in-studio. He survived Colbert (twice), so this should be easy for him. We may even give away a signed copy of the new book!

• TAYLOR MARSH: The blogger, radio host, and Hillary Clinton supporter will check in to discuss why (and if) she'll now be supporting Barrack Obama following the NY Senator's weekend announcement that she's "suspending" her campaign.
• LARRY JOHNSON: We'll talk with the former CIA analyst, Hillary Clinton supporter, and classmate of Valerie Plame Wilson about why he's not likely to be supporting Obama.
• MICHAEL OSTROLENK: A conservative who opposes attacking Iran, supporting the transpartisan coalition calling for a new diplomatic effort via tomorrow's "National Call-In Day". Ostrolenk works with the American Conservative Defense Alliance and the Liberty Coalition in support of true conservative values. We'll find out what they are and who still has them!
• Plus Daily Voting News with JOHN GIDEON, a Green News Report from DESI DOYEN, YOUR calls, and much more!

Listen live on air, or via the Internets, and call in with your questions at 888-5-PeterB (888-573-8372)! Or post your questions here in this Open Show Thread and I'll try to keep my eye on 'em while on air!

POST-SHOW UPDATE: Audio archives from today's show. Commercials removed courtesy of PBC affiliate, San Francisco's Green 960am!

HOUR 1: David Sirota (and tons of technical snafu fun!) Download MP3 or listen online...

HOUR 2: Taylor Marsh and Larry Johnson. Download MP3 or listen online...

HOUR 3: Green News Report w/ Desi Doyen, Daily Voting News w/ John Gideon, Michael Ostrolenk on conservative attempts at diplomacy in Iran and David Swanson on the BREAKING news that Kucinich has taken to the floor of the U.S. House to read 35 Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush. Download MP3 or listen online...

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Sarasota Co Florida Supervisor of Elections, Kathy Dent, intends on holding a mock election which will minimally test the new voting system being purchased by the county. This system has still not been federally certified by the EAC, though that is not a Florida requirement. The county will not test accuracy to ensure use of the voting system complies with the Help America Vote Act of 2002. Instead they will do a minimal test on tabulators, modems, and other parts of the system. How can voters of the county be assured that their voting system is accurate when the system has never been tested to ensure that accuracy?...

The hunter becomes the hunted as Bill Moyers --- and then a bunch of other actual reporters --- turn the tables on Bill O'Reilly's henchman/ambush "journalist", Porter Barry, at this weekend's National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis (courtesy of Josh Nelson at The Seminal)...

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Tennessee has joined the growing list of states that require a paper trail for use in recounts and random audits. The governor has signed legislation that requires all systems purchased after Jan. 1 to be precinct-based optical scan systems. We congratulate the Tennessee activists who have made this all happen. ...

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

The Arizona Secretary of State, Jan Brewer, has sent a letter to the Pima County officials complaining about the steps they are proposing to tighten security surrounding elections and vote counting procedures. One proposal from the county is that they no longer send election results via modem to a central location. They want to do as many other security conscious counties across the nation do; have the memory cards physically transported to the county tabulation location. Brewer likes the insecure modems. In truth, Brewer seems to be telling the county that they can’t do things differently because she did not think of the changes herself. ...

From Eric Kleefeld at TPM...

What could possibly go wrong?

While the conspiracy theorists at Fox "News" ramp up their "special investigation" into the exceedingly rare crime of voter fraud, misleading their viewers before the upcoming election with breathless reports of "illegal immigrants" and "people who are not even citizens voting for whomever they want" in order to "sway an election," I thought it might be useful to publish the complete cover-story, detailing Ann Coulter's no-uncertain-terms felony voter fraud, as it was published in the recent exposé I wrote for Hustler magazine.

Up until now, the story --- along with complete documentation, such as the voter registration form on which she purposely lied and the evidence proving she knowingly voted in the wrong location --- has been told piece-meal in smaller stories as the scandal unfolded over the last two years (all indexed in full here.)

But, with Fox "News" requesting tips via their special VoterFraud@foxnews.com address, I thought it might be nice to help them out by publishing, for the first time online, the entire story of Coulter's purposeful voter fraud: What she did, how she publicly used Fox and other media to lie about it, and how she's gotten away with her several felonies and at least one misdemeanor...so far.

Hopefully the crime fighters at Fox will help enforce the rule of law, and bring this documented fugitive to justice once and for all! Especially since, as you'll see in the following story, she used the network's own airwaves to lie to Alan Colmes and others. Please do your civic duty and let them know!

Download the PDF version, as published in the magazine, or read the full story, with helpful links added, online below...

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Election officials in Pinellas Co., Florida, were probably very surprised when they inspected their voting machines for malware and found that even though their system is not connected to the internet two bugs, known as Flush.G and W32.SillyDC, were present. There goes the excuse that “our system can’t be hacked (attacked) because it isn’t hooked-up to the internet” excuse.

San Bernardino Co., California, has discovered a ‘bug’ in its central tabulator, known by Sequoia Voting, that does not correctly count the number of precincts.

The ES&S system used in Curry Co, New Mexico, seems to have a ‘glitch.’ Precinct totals in an early voting location were counted more than once.

One voter went to the polls in Los Angeles Co., California, and used the accessible voting system only to find that the system “flipped” his votes in four separate races. ...

From the St. Petersburg Times...

And yet, we're often told by voting machine companies that viruses can't get into these systems. Then there are the election officials who have bought into these systems, yet know nothing about them, who respond to the public and the media as if they do, regularly making ridiculous claims that such problems can't happen because "at no time are our systems connected to the Internet."

Whether they are or aren't, it's an absurd response. Malicious software can get into the system any number of ways, via non-Internet networking, USB thumb drives, etc. It can then undedectably affect an election without detection.

In the Summer of 2006, after my organization, VelvetRevolution.us, was given a Diebold touch-screen system from an insider source, we loaned it to Prinecton for testing and they were able to insert a vote-flipping virus via the memory card which could pass itself from machine to machine and flip an entire election without detection.

And, of course, on the first day of Early Voting in the now-infamous FL-13 Congressional race in 2006 where 18,000 votes mysteriously and still-inexplicably disappeared, a malicious viral worm took down a key part of the network infrastructure on which the registration system ran, grinding voting to a halt that day.

Similarly, exclusively reported thereafter, the scientists who studied the ES&S voting machines used in that FL-13 election discovered that the ES&S touchscreen systems --- used in some 16 different states --- were also vulnerable to the same type of virus that Prinecton was able to insert into the Diebold machines. To this day, despite being told about it by the scientists who discovered the problem, the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) refuses to warn jurisdictions that use the same machine model about its vulnerability, even though it was described as potentially even more serious than the one discovered in the Diebold systems.

Other than that, everything's fine. Nothing to see here. Move along, folks.

-- Brad Friedman, The BRAD BLOG

As a fairly well-known Election Integrity journalist who has personally covered, for years, the myriad election woes of thousands (if not millions) of voters around the country who have tried to bring seemingly endless stories of votes flipped on e-voting systems to the attention of officials, these stories always continue to be remarkable to me, even if not to many others in the rest of the mainstream media.

It's even more troubling when one realizes that so little ever seems to be done in light of so many of these horror stories, as those very same failed systems are still deployed across the nation, with little or no modification to correct the mountains of documented problems even now, as we head towards an election likely to be of historic proportions this November.

What follows is yet another one of those stories, where a voter had vote selections flipped by the electronic voting system, such that candidates were chosen other than the ones intended to be selected by the voter, though no fault of his own.

But this time, the voter is me.

Though I've covered so many of these stories, it was nonetheless remarkable to see it happen before ones very eyes, as occurred yesterday when I voted here in Los Angeles during our very low turnout California state Primary election.

The ES&S electronic voting system that I used to try to vote on yesterday, ended up flipping a total of 4 out of the 12 contests and initiatives for which I had attempted to vote.

Right before my very eyes, the computer-printed ballot produced by the voting system I was using, incorrectly filled in bubbles for four of the races I was voting in. Had I not been incredibly careful, after the ballot was printed out, to painstakingly compare what was printed to what I actually voted for, I'd have never known my votes were being given to candidates I did not vote for.

Had I been a blind voter --- as the system I was using is largely intended for use by the disabled --- I would have cast my ballot without having a clue that a full 40% of the votes I'd tried to cast for various California Superior Court judges were flipped to other candidates...

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Fort Bend Co., Texas, has just hired a new elections director. To prove that the revolving door goes in as well as out the county hired the regional sales manager, account manager, and Illinois state manager for Election Systems & Software.

Pima Co., Arizona, has given in and will be releasing all elections data bases from its Diebold machines going back to 1998. The county has also agreed to pay the opposing attorney for his time and expenses ($228,000)....

Yes, four different selections, on my very own ballot, were flipped before my very eyes when I went to vote in yesterday's California state Primary Election.

One might think that someone might have been smart enough to make damned sure, at the very least, that the equipment where that widely-known Election Integrity muckraking journalist jerk, Brad Friedman of The BRAD BLOG goes to vote, would have been thoroughly tested and working as it was supposed to. One might think that. But if so, one would be wrong.

Full story soon...

UPDATE: Full story now posted here...