Oh, neato. Remember that recent disastrous Anchorage, Alaska election I told you about, during which voters were turned away all across the city because not enough ballots were distributed, and where the Deputy Municipal Clerk Jacqueline Duke, responsible for ballot and voting machine distribution, admitted to me that she had told poll workers not to worry if they found voting machine security seals broken on the morning of the election?
Aside from Prop 5, a ballot measure which would have extended anti-discrimination protection to the LGBT community — which a pre-election poll predicted would win by 9 points (before the Diebold computer tabulators reported that it lost by 16 points) — Anchorage’s Mayor Dan Sullivan was also on the ballot that day.
Unlike Prop 5, however, the anti-Prop 5 mayor reportedly won, according to the Diebold op-scan tabulators, by almost the same exact margin that the same pre-election poll had predicted he would.
And, whaddaya know? There’s Mayor Sullivan himself, in the photo above, seen celebrating on St. Patrick’s Day with none other than his old employee [PDF] turned Anchorage Deputy Municipal Clerk Jacqueline Duke! (She’s the one on the right.)
Neat, eh? I wonder why, according to a source of Alaska radio host, blogger and election integrity advocate Shannyn Moore, Duke scrubbed that photo from her Facebook page recently. I tried to find out and get confirmation, but Duke didn’t respond to the email I sent to the address she gave me when we spoke. As a matter of fact, according to The Mudflats’ Linda Kellen Biegel, who tried to ask Duke a question at a recent Election Commission meeting called to investigate the continuing mess, the Deputy Municipal Clerk is no longer allowed to speak to anyone in the media.
Wonder why. Was it something she said?
Thanks Brad. We have to get this fixed. Just over 6 months to the national election on the same equipment.
Lemme see now: stolen 2000 Presidential election out there for EVERYONE to see, including a traitorous Supreme Court decision. Check. Stolen Presidential election 2004. Kerry walks away w/a whimper. Check. Hope! Change! Enough! Yeah right! Check. NOW we wanna fix the broken election system? Hey, it’s 2012 already. Obomber is murdering American citizens, allowing raids on medical marijuana suppliers, speeding up the bank/foreclosure/stock fraud cycle, and oh, yeah, signing rhe NDAA & the horrific ‘health care system reform’/rob all Americans while preventing them access to decent medical treatment–yeah, THAT’S why I don’t exactly feel like voting this year. UNTIL THE MACHINES ARE GONE, AND WE ENACT DEMOCRACY’S GOLD STANDARD WE HAVE NO LAWFULLY ELECTED OFFICIALS. Or laws. Or anything. Folks, is it time to wake up yet?! ‘Cuz I think I’m waking up trapped in a nightmare… Of our own making because we haven’t done enough to spread the word. Where’s Paul Revere-election edition-when you need him/her? I do my part-I tell EVERYONE about the machines & why they are living in poverty. I’ve stood up in activist gatherings and asked-on camera-what they are going to do about the machines. What else can we do? Better hurry! The prison door on us Americans is clanging shut! See you in the Detention Centers, after they strip search us for not paying our taxes & trying to leave the country!!
Eurest Support Services, or ESS, the contractor hired to provide payroll services should be looked at too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eu...pport_Services
ESS first came to wide public light in 2005 after being embroiled in the multibillion-dollar United Nations procurement scandal. It was reported that ESS used a broker company in New York City to get United Nations procurement contracts in West Africa with the help of a corrupt U.N. official, Alexander Yakovlev.
Separately, it was also the subject of a public hearing in 2007 by the United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for its role in security contract arrangements for its staff and equipment while providing dining services to the US Army in Iraq as a subcontractor to Halliburton subsidiary KBR.
Thanks for yet another lesson in modern American politics:
No need to “romance” voters anymore — it’s the Clerk in charge of counting the votes that you need to “swing” (with).