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…
Isn’t untested software just the most wonderful thing!!
Awesome Brad. Keep it up.
Well, isn’t that special.
Brad, I don’t think I’m alone when I say that ‘our side’ is overdue for some very good karma.
I’d think of this as a gift.
And there are at least ‘6 or 7’ who can’t WAIT to hear the whole story.
Brad:
Erm… you wouldn’t happened to record the vote flip? With like a video camera… cell phone camera… or… whatever?
We’re gonna need some evidence to take to court…
I apologize for this, but I have to do it. One of those compulsion type things, you know.
If you haven’t read this, please do so:
Consensual Political Intercourse
Then read the discussion here:
Uncounted discussion on Care2
It is long, but almost every possible objection is put forward and addressed. Towards the end someone suggests a new little group that is just forming and is open to anyone. You might want to check out the beginning of the discussions there also.
Again, I apologize. And even more profusely for what I am about to say. This may be a fascist tyranny, but it is not a prison. Just because we’ve been punked once or twice before, does not mean we have to keep bending over. There are women in Africa who have been brutally raped and mutilated but survived and are now self-sufficient and helping others. We not only have the right to the citizen-owned transparent participatory democracy of the Creekside Declaration, but according to an older declaration, the Declaration of Independence, we have the duty to reject tyranny and establish democracy.
We cannot do that by voting in rigged elections.
Sorry.
MrBlueSky asked –
I’ll let you keep guessing on that one, Mr. Blue, until I’m able to finish up this story. But you likely know, I’ve advised many to bring such equipment with them, to document instances such as this, when they go to vote…
Wow. Omigosh, this doesn’t happen to me often, but …I’m speechless.
Oops, I messed up the links. The link for Consensual Political Intercourse is:
click here
And the link for the Care2 discussion is:
click here
And the new little group is called “Putting the NO Back in November” or something like that.
Why isn’t this story the headliner for the major news programs? Because we live in a fascist dictatorship.
Thanks for keeping it real Mr Blue.
The system is mocking us. But to Die Bold my friends is to die with honor, right? As long as we die, I guess, then its okay. What if we were to keep living? We would just shrivel more and more and look more like the image we fear becoming. So if we can blast a cap off in some Arab’s face, then we can live the glory of capitalizing on our own vanity.
Don’t you see Brad, you voted wrong. You don’t support the facelift operation so you were helped in order that you might understand later.
Where is Kevorkian, sonny? Call Jimmy Carter!
Great! We’re going to have some more evidence! More smoking guns!
Now, er, if only we had a democracy, we could do something with it….
Remember when Kathleen Wynne videotaped the officials in Cuyahoga County manipulating the ballots? They never saw a day in jail.
I’ve got a copy of Richard Hayes Phillips’ book, Witness to a Crime, CD included — fully documented evidence that the 2004 election was stolen, but Bush is still in office and can’t be removed.
And then there was Clint Curtis who got documented evidence, sworn affidavits from voters, that he had won his election, and he filed a Federal Election Contest, but Congress dismissed it, as they did several others.
And where is it they just went to court and won the right to look at the election documents and are now frantically seeking computer experts to help them develop a database that might enable them to analyze those documents within the five day deadline for filing for a recount?
I have a friend in Africa. He gets the GPS coordinates for mass graves in case someday somebody is ever interested, but he doesn’t advise villagers to go out and get themselves slaughtered so that he can get more evidence.
Personally, I don’t need any more evidence. I already know our elections are rigged. Some people won’t care no matter how much evidence there is. I guess it is a personal thing. I’m just wondering if it is possible for those who are gathering evidence to maybe consider also working on establishing democracy, just in case the evidence is ruled inadmissible? Or is the evidence itself the only goal? And if so, how many fully documented presidential election thefts do we need before we can stop asking them to please steal another?
Just askin’….
Err I am feeling kind of stupid here…is this a Primary for the Congress and Senate?
Couldn’t happen to a “better” guy though, in a way, because they are going to be shitting bricks when they realise it’s BRAD FRIEDMAN, the BEST Election Integrity muckraking journalist.
Can’t wait to hear more.
For Christ’s sake, why doesn’t some fucker that works in the LA news pick up on these voting machine problems? Are they totally retarded or something? Aren’t these issues considerably more earth-shattering than these boring, banal “scoops” that they have on celebrities, etc? Would some reporters please grow some god damn balls and start looking into these issues. What could possibly be more important than those who are voted into offices that decide how our country is run, and the process by which they are voted in, as well as the accuracy of said vote? Doesn’t anyone fucking care anymore? Come on, CNN, Brad lives right around the damn corner from you (or so I thought he has previously said). Obviously I’m not speaking to most of the regulars here. WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE DO THEIR FUCKING JOB AS JOURNALISTS AND COVER AN IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR A CHANGE.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Don’t count on the media in times like these.
On the “did you record the flipping” question –
In Texas some Election Judges (particularly the R type) – if they saw you making such a recording – will instruct you to power down the device or even instruct you to leave the voting place, even if you have not finished voting. If you protest, they can, and some may well, have you arrested. Election Judges in TX have the power of a District Judge on Election Day.
TX Election Code, new this year, says:
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 61, Election Code, is amended by adding Section 61.013 to read as follows:
Sec. 61.013. USE OF CERTAIN DEVICES.
(a) A person may not use a wireless communication device within 100 feet of a voting station.
(b) A person may not use any mechanical or electronic means of recording images or sound within 100 feet of a voting station.
(c ) The presiding judge may require a person who violates this section to turn off the device or to leave the polling place.
This could be a big break. Brad should be a regular on Olbermann. He should be on with Colbert and Stewart.
He certainly has an internet presence. There are clearly more than a few who check into this place. As Al Franken says, it’s a blog run by a guy named Brad.
Awesome! So much drama!
Chris Hooten said:
I did. And I do. Good memory, Chris. Waiting by the phone, but for some reason, it ain’t rung yet. 🙁