John Aravosis over at AMERICAblog reports the dirty tricks are spreading. Note: The fake robo-calls reported here are distinct from the GOP phone-calls reported here by John Gideon, in New Mexico attempting to disinform Hispanic voters that their polling place had “changed”…
by John in DC – 11/05/2006 09:39:00 PM
This is turning into a big story. They’re doing it across the country – Kansas, NH, and now PA. This is the Republican October Surprise, launched in November. It’s to cheat, pretend that they are Democrats calling voters and then piss the voters off so much that they don’t vote for the Democrats.
That’s called lying and cheating in order to suppress the vote, and it’s illegal. And the Republican party admits they’re doing it.
States in which GOP fake calls are happening so far:
My mother, in NC, has been called numerous times. Not sure if it’s the Republicans, but it very well could be.
Many crimes have been committed and many more will be committed in the next few days (and perhaps weeks).
We have only one recourse…
We must take the house.
Vote Democratic on November 7 (hold your nose if you must) and then stand up on November 8 and beyond and make sure the votes are counted.
I still think the fix is in hackwise
Everything I’ve heard in bits and pieces from the 24/7 cable news is that “the polls are changing because the Republican base is coming back over at the last minute” meme
All I’m saying is vote and do NOT get your hopes up yet.
Even with all the other dirty tricks going on they’re still going to have to do some serious vote flipping
Right Conservative View
Conservative Court Gets It Wrong
FRAUD WATCH
1. Uncounted votes
2. Votes switched electronically from Democrat to Republican
Approximately 3% of total votes cast are never counted (lost, stolen, residual ballots). The majority (75%) of uncounted ballots are located in minority districts.
This is an example of the MODEL ASSUMPTIONS used to derive the House election fraud watch list below:
Poll MoE 3.0%
Undecided Vote (UVA) to Dem: 60%
Spoiled Votes: 75% of spoiled votes are Democratic
Switched Votes 11% from Dem to Rep
Probability of Democrats winning 35-44 GOP House seats
http://www.geocities.com/electi...3_image001.png
Vote switching required for GOP to retain House seats
http://www.geocities.com/electi...9_image001.png
62 House seats sorted by probability of a Democratic win. Assumptions noted above.
Average 46.65 45.63 Win
11/05 Dem GOP Prob
1 CO 7 54 38 100.0%
2 OH 6 58 39 100.0%
3 OH 18 53 33 100.0%
4 IL 6 54 40 100.0%
5 TX 22 36 28 100.0%
6 AZ 8 53 41 100.0%
7 OH 15 53 41 100.0%
8 NY 20 53 42 100.0%
9 NY 24 53 42 100.0%
10 NY 29 53 42 100.0%
11 PA 10 47 38 100.0%
12 IN 8 53 43 100.0%
13 ID 1 38 34 100.0%
14 NM 1 53 44 100.0%
FRAUD ALERT********************************
1 FL 16 48 41 100.0%
2 IA 1 49 42 100.0%
3 KY 3 52 44 100.0%
4 PA 7 52 44 100.0%
5 CT 4 51 44 100.0%
6 NC 11 48 43 100.0%
7 WI 8 51 45 100.0%
8 PA 6 49 44 100.0%
9 KY 4 45 42 99.8%
10 NC 8 48 44 99.8%
11 CT 5 46 43 99.6%
12 OH 2 48 45 98.8%
13 IN 2 50 47 96.8%
14 PA 8 50 47 96.8%
15 AZ 5 48 46 95.1%
16 CA 11 48 46 95.1%
17 IL 10 48 46 95.1%
18 OH 1 48 46 95.1%
19 FL 13 49 47 92.6%
20 NY 19 49 47 92.6%
21 FL 22 50 48 89.2%
22 CT 2 48 47 84.9%
23 CO 4 43 44 79.5%
24 IN 9 46 46 79.5%
25 AZ 1 38 41 73.2%
26 FL 24 43 45 58.2%
27 NH 2 46 47 58.2%
END FRAUD ALERT***************************
1 NJ 7 43 46 34.0%
2 IA 2 48 50 20.5%
3 MN 1 47 50 10.8%
4 VA 10 42 47 7.4%
5 NY 26 46 50 4.9%
6 PA 4 47 51 3.2%
7 NV 3 39 46 2.0%
8 OH 10 46 51 1.2%
9 MN 6 42 49 0.4%
10 WA 8 45 51 0.4%
11 CA 4 43 50 0.2%
12 NY 3 44 51 0.1%
13 MN 2 42 50 0.0%
14 NH 1 40 49 0.0%
15 VA 2 43 51 0.0%
16 CO 5 42 51 0.0%
17 IL 14 42 52 0.0%
18 CA 50 41 55 0.0%
19 IL 19 36 53 0.0%
20 OK 5 37 59 0.0%
21 VA 5 35 61 0.0%
“An injunction’s been filed to stop the GOP from making these calls to non-republicans with hispanic surnames. There’ll be a hearing tomorrow”
Why would this person call the GOP to find their polling place, John, if they were “NON-REPUBLICANS”?
Thanks for the links, Dredd – it’s great to hear from ya! If the roof falls in over there, Europe still has a flicker of freedom. I’ll happily show you and any other Bradvillians around…
Hey NeoCon – the GOPers are calling them, not vice-versa – and turn off the damned boldface!
I believe Comment 3 by Floridiot is correct. The software is loaded and ready to go. In California, it is legal for poll workers to take a voting machine home. And it gets worse.
Where I live in Contra Costa county, according to the sources at the registrar, our ES&S M100 scanners have two ports, unguarded, unchecked, unsealed, going HOME WITH POLL WORKERS!!!! Just plug in your PC and away you go.
The only good news is that we have paper ballots, but good luck in getting a recount.
BTW, Chuck Hagel, Republican Senator from Nebraska and former ES&S executive won in Nebraska in an upset! … On ES&S voting machines.
We are getting these same calls in MI-07.
A woman robot pretending to be Sharon Renier keeps calling people and says rude things about her Republican opponent.
It’s evil.
Dredd DUDE !!!
Looks to me like the Supreme court has too many activist judges, Dredd
They will cheat and steal — they have no choice.
They will only win, if we let them.
November 8 is our moment to STAND UP or to stand down and let the corporate fascist neo-cons take power forever.
Your choice.
Watch TV, eat Hot Pockets, and don’t worry, be happy or stand up and FIGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY.
Your choice.
First they came for the pedophiles, and that seemed OK, so I didn’t mind a little abuse of the bill of rights to get THEM. Then they came for the tax avoiders, and I pay mine, so I was all for that. Then they came for the “suspected terrorists” and, well, I was scared, so I gave up some essential liberty to be safe.
Now they are coming for YOU.
It’s your choice: fight or live with what they are going to do, and I can promise you, it will make Germany in 1940 look downright democratic.
Your choice.
Looks like job for Robo Cop . . .
HeY Dredd ! ! !
“Strange days indeed…”
Did this fix the bold?
Turned it off anyway.
Hey Dredd. Good to see you back. Thanks bb, I think it worked. czaragorn forgot to close his tags , slap him around for us. 🙂
Dredd: We were holding a candlelight vigil for you like John Lennon. I notice Kira & Big Tobacco are back, too, and Savanster recently. Is this the Ringo Starr all-star reunion tour???
Don’t worry…I picked up the slack for you…you traitors… 🙂 Why do you hate America???
BB2 – thanks a boodle for turning that crap off – it seemed most unseemly for Dredd’s reappearance to be marred, besmirched, whatever, in any way, but it wasn’t me what opened the tags in the first place, it was that NeoCon scoundrel what posted just before I did – for Pete’s sake (whoever Pete is), I don’t know how to turn that stuff on, much less off – I’m a wordsmith, nothing more nor less…
And you, GWN!!! I’ve loved you from the very first of your posts that I read, whatever, he muttered incoherently. Hmmm… So quick to condemn… So bitter the draught of disappointment… I wish I could italicize this, that might make it all better, but alas… I plead innocent!!!
Hers Another reason to suspect the hack
Link
Here’s some more dirty tricks;
“””Carnahan told The Associated Press on Monday that a worker at the St. Louis Election Board asked her three times to show a photo identification when she voted absentee last Friday – despite a Missouri Supreme Court ruling striking down the photo requirement.”””
“””Scott Leiendecker, the Republican director of the St. Louis Election Board, did not immediately return a call Monday.”””
…gee, the St. Louis Election Board director is (guess!!!) A REPUBLICAN!!! What are the goddam odds of that??? JUST…another coincidence…you know, that coincidence, where ALL OF THE DIRTY TRICKS ARE BY REPUBLICANS????????????????????
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/k...l/15943947.htm
That link, one second ago…did not prompt you to be a member of the kansas city star…now it is…
czargon: Plunger was right: attack the credibility of the polls. I heard Limbaugh doing it, and several others. Suddenly, after decades of proven reliability of polls, they must be attacked by the “Republican Noise Machine”, for talking points for idiots.
DUDE,.. DREDD,..
DREDD,.. DUDE,..
Thought you were going to sit the election out from the Alaska deep woods tundra.
Welcome back. Maybe he launched his own satellite for deep woods wi-fi so he could help restore decomcracy.
czaragorn #22 My deepest apologies. ( I noticed after that it wasn’t you but thought, ahh I’ll let it slide, maybe he won’t notice 🙂 I was excited to see Dredd back too…yeah that’s it, it’s Dredd’s fault.
(I wouldn’t know how to shut the bold off either so I hope I don’t get caught not closing my tags.)
czaragorn
Placing a [b] in your text will turn on the bold, and a [/b] will turn it off. Only instead of the brackets [ ] use the lesser than and greater than signs. (If I used them here you wouldn’t see them.)
Substituting an “i” will work for italics.
The easy way is to use the b and i buttons at the top of the edit box. click the button before the text you want bold or italic. The button will change and display a /b or /i – just click it again at the end of what you want bold or italic. You can use both commands at once if you wish.
For Voting “irregularities” Call 1-888-DEM-VOTE as heard from Howard Dean (1-888-336-8683)
You can’t close tags left open from comments anymore guys…. The new software doesn’t do that one. If something’s out of whack, I usually catch it, but sometimes I suddenly fall asleep and stay that way for hours and hours. Other times I walk on the beach or go to the grocery store. So. When this problem crops up and doesn’t get fixed in a timely fashion, I’d really appreciate it if someone would squawk intermittently so I know to look for it. Sometimes it is blaringly apparent, but other times not, depending on how much time has elapsed.
I pointed out in the other robo-thread about Pugs and Dems having the same voting place lists.. so calling the pukes back would net you the same results as verifying with your own party.. duh?
The PROBLEM is the LYING and CHEATING that the VALUES BASED RIGHT WING ZEALOTS are engaging in, NeoCon. Get it? YOUR party is chocked full of slime/scum that is content to fuck up voters, then cry all day long when some pretty insignificant “fraud by a Dem” is found. And YOUR party keeps hiring and paying CONVICTED CRIMINALS to do the same job they got convicted of screwing up in the past (Phone Jamming comes to mind).
Republicans, without a doubt, embody what evil is, if there is any such thing as manifest evil. They lie, cheat, steal, rape, pillage, plunder, abuse, and all the rest, just so they can have a few more baubles in their pockets. They don’t care that people are suffering and dying because of their misdeeds. If that doesn’t define evil, nothing does. Good thing for them that most Liberals aren’t zealots like they are, or we’d be firing up the burning pits to cleanse the earth of the devils!
Savantster, while I personally agree with you that Republicans are “scum” and “slime” by and large, the problem is really larger than that.
They believe they are doing battle with an Godless and evil enemy (liberals and Democrats) and that ANYTHING THEY DO TO WIN IS MORAL AND RIGHT (including breaking laws).
In that context, they can not be reasoned with — they are FAITH-BASED.
Me? I believe in the Constitution of the United States and its Ammendments. The same thing the President of the United States pledges (or affirms) to protect and uphold.
Of all the hypocricies of this Republican Administration and the Senators and Congresspeople who have rubber-stamped their actions (including many Democrats) it is their abuse and ill-treatment of that amazing document (that, more than anything else represents what makes America better than so many other countries — at least in theory) that disgusts me the most.
Tuesday, November 7, 2006. I will hope for change. (My vote is already in and probably counted — Oregon vote-by-mail)
Wednesday, November 8, 2006. I will work for change.
If the time comes when I have to fight these neo-con nut jobs in the streets with guns and knives, then so be it. Maybe, if we can beat them back just a little, they will slink, scared and stupid, back to the swamp they crawled out of.
e-voting machines like a one chad punch card . . . . . Punch out the chad to vote democrocy . . .
A Great Big HELLO to Dredd & Savanster! Really glad to see everybody back on the blog. Did I see a post by Supersoling & PegC recently? Gosh, looks like the gang’s all here! Just in time for the Mid-term sElection.
Thanks BB2! Hi Kira! Supersoling and Peg C? Really? I’ve been missing them both, as I was missing you. Welcome home to Bradville!
Procter and Gamble executives are the financiers and moneybags that are supporting/enabling these despicable Republican Party “Robo” phone calls to discourage/disenfranchise/suppress/and intimidate Democratic/Liberal/Progressive inclined voters.
Want to put an end to this FASCIST BULLSHIT ?
BOYCOTT PROCTER AND GAMBLE PRODUCTS – refuse to bring their consumer products and sundries to the cash register for purchase. Cause their stockholder shares to take a major dive. That will stop these Nazi bastards from playing dirty tricks and meddling with
DEMOCRACY.Link to info about sourse of Rethug “ROBO” phone calls.
More info – Rethug “ROBO” calls.
More Sanitary Than halliburton’s Water Supply in Itaq . . .
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JOJ # 38
Ha, ha, ha……..thanks for a good belly laugh to start my day..!!
OldTurk # 37
Thanks for the nod on P & G products. We have them up here also, so will pass the word along to family and friends about the boycott.
It’s pretty quiet around Bradblog this morning, so hopefully that means everyone is either voting or keeping watch at the polls.
Good luck…..patriots..!!
I’ll be waiting for the good news so I can crack open my bottle of champagne tonight.
Time is truly wastin’
There’s no guarantee
Smile’s in the makin’
You gotta fight the powers that be
Got so many forces
Stayin’ on the scene
Givin’ up all around me
Faces full a’ pain
I try to play my music
They say my music’s too loud
I kept talkin’ about it
I got the big run around
When I rolled with the punches
I got knocked on the ground
With all this BULLSHIT Going Down
Time is truly wastin’
There’s no guarantee
Smile’s in the makin’
We gotta fight the powers that be
I don’t understand it
People wanna see, ya
Those that got the answers
Red tape in the way
I could take you in easy
That’s just half the fun, oh boy
Seeking my satisfaction
Keeps me on the run
I try to play my music
They say my music’s too loud
I try talkin’ about it
I got the big run around
And when I rolled with the punches
I got knocked on the ground
With all this BULLSHIT going down
Time is truly wastin’
There’s no guarantee
Smile’s in the makin’
You gotta fight the powers that be
If you and I can…we got the power
Fight it, got the power fight it…baby, baby
Fight it, fight the power(Isley Bros 1974)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scZp3idMNeM