As happened on the day of the New Hampshire primary on January 8th, disinformation on the net about problems at the polling place were rampant. But wrong. The disinfo, as The BRAD BLOG was able to debunk that day, seems to have originally emanated from the DRUDGE REPORT.
It looks like Mr. Drudge is busy getting the story wrong again today, reporting that “The board of elections failed to deliver voting equipment to polling places ALL OVER LOS ANGELES”…
After running the above story for a number of hours at his site — and sending corporate mainstream media folks and Internet blogsites alike into a tizzy, as well as helping to ring our phones off the hook — DRUDGE has finally updated the item with the real story, and it’s far less scary…
“Board of elections failed to deliver voting equipment to polling place [singular!] in Los Angeles,” he now reports, and adds a vague “reports of issues at other locations…” linked to this MSNBC story about a problem at one polling place in West Los Angeles where voting machines were not delivered.
The same story, of the one precinct where equipment was not available, was reported an hour or two ago by AP.
MSNBC’s report says that:
A polling place without voting equipment is obviously a problem. But it’s a far cry from Drudge’s red-lettered “ALL OVER LOS ANGELES” scream. We’ve spoken to a number of election officials and Election Integrity experts monitoring voting here in L.A. and we’ve been able to find no other reports of the same issue happening elsewhere.
Drudge has since moved the above headline down on his page, where it is now hidden among his other stories today.
There were, and are, scattered reports about problems at polling places here in Los Angeles. We’re trying to track them down and learn how significant and/or wide-spread they are. We even encountered an interesting issue ourselves when we went to vote today. We’ll report on those issues, and others elsewhere around the country, shortly…
UPDATE 5:15pm PT: The edited headline has now been removed entirely from the DRUDGE REPORT. Farhad Manjoo of Salon also chased down this phony report from Drudge today.
Surprisingly, LA Times offers some actual legitimate reporting on election integrity problems here today (aside from their headline reference to “glitches” instead of the more accurate “failures”.)
The Garbudge Report says…
Folks, “someone” is down modding? John Gideons blogs…go give him a boost if you are a “reddit”
Propaganda has never been stronger. Amurka is inundated in a torrent of propaganda.
I have been watching the Senate debate, today and yesterday, on the FISA law to give retroactive immunity (to go back to cover 5 or so years of deliberate spying on Americans by Amurkan teleco companies).
I would like to see a little script done and made into a movie. It would focus on Senators swept back in time and transported to a location where they are German Senators at the time of the rise of the NAZI’s in Germany.
They would be debating the legality of the gas chambers and ovens where “turrist jues” were being “detained”.
If it mirrored the debate today, our best and brightest would be submitting amendments to the main NAZI bill, to limit the number that could be fried in the ovens to 500,000 thousand men, women, and children “turrists”.
And they would be almost bragging about it, thinking they were doing good. “Our wonderful amendment will not allow six million to be gassed and fried, but will only allow a half a million”, they would boast. Aren’t they wonderful?
It is a sad day when Americans are an historical event, not a current event.
I must say that the exception was Senator Dodd, who would not allow even one to be gassed and fried in opposition to the NAZI’s.
Good for him.
I can’t say here what I would do with the NAZI Amurkans that pretend to be Americans who stand on the floor of an American Institution, the Senate, and disgrace it so. Like fascists Kit Bond and Chairman Rockefeller. They suck. They are a stinking shame on the legacy of America and are nothing less that Amurkan whores out to destroy the US Constitution and therby America.
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DrudgeSludge Report is shameful propaganda, the bottom of the barrel, the full power of untruth, paid for by lust, greed, and the shame of a thousand bad nightmares the neoCons f**ked up the free press with.Brad, let us know if you hear anything about the independent (decline-to-state) voters who request a Democratic ballot in LA County. I wonder how many of them will not know that they have to fill in the extra ‘bubble’ stating that they are voting for a Democratic candidate, even though they are already filling in the bubble for their Democratic candidate. Apparently, the optical scanners do not catch this “error” and thus, their votes will not count. It would be great if you could verify that this in person that it is indeed a problem.
Let me see if I remember correctly. Drudge was all dirt all of the time when Bill Clinton was President, at least dirt that made Democrats look bad, but when the Neo-con scum really started f**king our country over, he seemed to not only miss those stories, but to also mislead his readers.
I figured Drudge out years ago when he refused to cover evidence I gave him showing that numerous members of Florida’s Republican party and Republican government leaders had committed felonies. I gave him documents showing the commission of felonies, but somehow that Republican dirt wasn’t newsworthy to Drudge!?!?
I never read grudge Drudge
and his slung sludge
Good job… It’s interesting how easily misinformation can spread via a popular news site like that.
I used to read DR a lot – almost like an addiction… For any other DR fans/addicts/wannabes out there, here’s a good site you can use to wean yourself off of it: drudgetracker.com