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Election 2006
The other night, at a 30-year retrospective for the Liz Lerman Dance Company, Peter DiMuro, her Artistic Director, stepped forward and led the audience through a movement exploration around the issue of genocide. The last gesture in the series we came up with was one in which we wrote the initials of someone who had stood up for us on our palms.
Then we took the initials and gave the hand gesture to the rest of the audience. It was moving and lovely and I had no trouble thinking of whose initials belonged inside that movement.
And tonight I went to the Vietnam Memorial to meet up with Cindy Sheehan and Ann Wright and others for a vigil. Cindy spoke about the hope we all have for tomorrow and for the end of this war, hopefully before the number of names surpass those on that wall.
She also pointed out that if we added the Iraqi names of those killed, the wall would be twelve times the size it is, and if we added the names of the Vietnamese killed, it would be double that.
Who stands up to genocide? Who speaks for those ghosts?
Tomorrow we vote, and it is a most important election, because it is surely our last chance to end this particular genocide. It may be the last chance to end the genocide of the planet.
And I know you all understand this and have already worked blessedly hard to get out the vote. But after you vote yourself, please take a moment to think about those who have lost lives for profiteering, those who have suffered under this administration, and vow to prevent these criminals from continuing with their program of callousnes and callowness.
Write the initials of someone who has stood against them on your hand and say thank you. And then pick up the phone and call your local organization and ask what small thing you can do to make the difference between despair and hope.
Everything counts on this day. Everything.
What a lovely gesture, Karen. Tomorrow, as I divide the day between beating the streets canvassing neighborhoods and driving people to their local polling places so they can participate in this great experiment we call a representative democracy, I'm sure that more than one of the people I meet will ask me why I have initials written on the palms of my hands. And then I will have the opportunity to pass the story you shared on to them in turn.
vote smart vote true vote blue,
Otter
Read this. It sums things up well.
http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=24794
KO talking about the robocalls.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x3850
Tomorrow, as I go to the polls to vote, on my left hand will be the initials KB and on my right hand DB.
Cheers
My uncle, talking about his son in Utah:
BERT SAID HE WENT DOWN TO CITY HALL IN BRIGHAM CITY TO SEE ABOUT VOTING EARLY.....THEY WERE ANXIOUS TO HAVE PEOPLE COME IN BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO WORK THE BUGS OUT OF THE NEW DIEBOLD TOUCH SCREEN VOTING MACHINES...THE PROBLEM IS THE PAPER TAPE TO RECORD VOTERS IS LIKE AN ADDING MACHINE TAPE AND HAS TO BE CHANGED ABOUT EVERY 100 VOTERS AND HE WAS SURE THESE OLDER WOMEN WHO WERE RUNNING IT DIDN'T HAVE A CLUE HOW TO HANDLE PROBLEMS WITH THEM....SO LOOK FOR AN ARMY OF LAWYERS ON BOTH SIDES..........
Here's his comment about Army Times etc. wanting to get rid of Rumsfeld:
WHY NOT WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FOR RUMMY AND THE NEOCONS
He is a Republican you know, friend of the former Harold Stassen, Governor of Minnesota and perennial Presidential candidate, but marched with Martin Luther King
Permission to excerpt or reprint granted, with link to http://www.blackboxvoting.org
The best defense is a good offense, so VOTE!
Now is not the time to retreat. Vote, and then find evidence to tell the story of what's really happening in U.S. elections.
Things may look relatively smooth on election day, but the real fun begins after the polls close. That's when we see a lot of strange things. Look for:
- Missing memory cards -- and remember, a memory card is a BALLOT BOX. This happens every election, to weird shrugs by election officials. About 70 ballot boxes went missing in Cuyahoga County during the May primary; a bunch went missing in Detroit last spring, and they've gone missing in places like Dekalb County Georgia, and various other locations. This is nothing to shrug about.
Remember when a single ballot box was missing in Florida in the 2000 election? Everyone was going crazy, but now, you have dozens and dozens of these memory cards, cartridges, and "PEBs" -- all are small digital ballots boxes -- they are going missing. Very troubling. Watch for it. See if you can spot it. Report it!
- Phantom votes -- this is when you have more votes than voters. There were about 100,000 more votes than voters in Tarrant County Texas during the primary, and more votes than voters in Ohio locations in 2004.
What to look for: Do a quick check of the number of registered voters and compare with the number of votes that show up. Bizarre anomalies appear almost every election.
Stage 2 is comparing the number of sign-ins in the pollbook with the number of votes that show up.
- Sometimes you see disappearing votes. The number of votes goes DOWN while the number of precincts counted goes UP. This happened in Mohave County Arizona in the 2004 primary, and in Memphis in the Aug. 2006 primary. Alert watchers of county Web results often spot this and capture it in screen saves.
What to do: Assign someone to capture screen shots each time the totals are updated and check for disappearing votes.
- Obstructed vote counting -- we often see obstructions to being able to see the vote counting, even beyond the obstruction of counting inside a black box. In San Diego in 2005, a member of the Black Box Voting board of directors, Jim March, was arrested for trying to view the vote counting. I myself was surrounded by six members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department when I had the audacity to ask if I could view the vote counting there, which was taking place in a room no one could see. We expect to get many reports from citizens who are not allowed to view vote counting.
If you are obstructed from viewing the central tally process, report it.
- In the 10 days following the election, you can expect to see many unusual things pop up in the public records that are obtained by candidates.
Of particular interest are the "event logs" that you get from Microsoft Windows, which runs most of the tallying software. This can show extra programs being run.
Also of great interest are the voting machine event logs, which can show crazy voting dates -- like in Palm Beach County in 2004, where more than 4 dozen voting machines had votes time and date-stamped weeks before the election, sometimes in the middle of the night, and Volusia County Florida in the same election, where a machine had votes date-stamped more than 10,000 years in the future. In San Diego in the June 2006 primary, the voting system event log shows that it dialed out to Diebold at 9:31 pm during the middle of its counting.
- We also anticipate many peculiarities with provisional votes, extra optional paper ballot votes, absentee votes and various obstructions to voting around the country.
- Another thing we look for is strange statistical patterns, like voting machines from one manufacturer giving results different from all the others, or one type of machine giving discrepant results, as happened in New Mexico in 2004. We saw three candidates in a row get 18,181 votes in Comal County Texas and one district in Minnesota had all the minor party candidates get the same vote percentage -- despite very big differences in how well known the candidates were.
On election day itself, we'll see vote-flipping, where people vote for one candidate and another one's name pops up. And we'll see many other unusual things.
I expect surprising new problems, like the new electronic poll books having problems finding themselves, and voting machines that don't match themselves (for example, having different results on their paper tape than they do on their screens).
Document. Think photos, videos, and most of all, cleverly constructed requests for documents. You have the right to obtain a copy of just about any document you can think of, as long as it exists. Go hunting. See what you find.
When you find important information, propagate it. Don't just call it into one place, but e-mail it, send it to bloggers, give it to reporters, provide it to public officials.
We want to improve elections, but first we need to make a solid, indisputable case. And to do that, we all need to get into action.
Use your own common sense. Document. Propagate. Then push solutions through for true citizen oversight. Now is your chance to take back your electoral process!
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Be very clear about your job as a citizen right now: It is to reverse the swing of the pendulum. It's been swinging away from citizen control -- your job is to take back your government. Start at the local level.
You own your government -- not the other way around. It is time to get out of your chair, step away from the Internet, and get involved in citizen oversight.
Rahm on Robocalls: “The Worst of Dirty Tricks”
Rolling Stone - ... scandal — in which the National Republican Campaign Committee is aparently violating state do-not-call registries by placing repeat robocalls after midnight ...
Raw Story GOP 'robocalls' enrage Democrats
Chicago Tribune, United States - The e-mailers are upset about “robocalls”—pre-recorded, automated phone calls containing anti-Democratic political messages. ...
Robocalls - If You Get and Annoying Call From a Candidate, It May ... VoteTrustUSA
Dems Claim GOP Launched 'Dirty Tricks' Phone Campaign ABC NewsRepublican national 'robo-calling' scam on eve of election
Raw Story
California Progress Report - Bay Area Indymedia
Attack of the Republican robocalls
Houston Chronicle, United States - ... One, two, three, four times a day it seemed, the phone rang with "robocalls" about the Democratic challenger to incumbent GOP Rep. ...
Repeated 'robocalls" Called Karl Rove Dirty Trick
BBSNews, NC -... that haunts Democrats is another Karl Rove dirty trick campaign and the GOP effort to keep power has done just that with thousands of "robocalls" that mislead ...
US - Voter Suppression in Midterm Elections: Robocalls, ID ...
AlterInfos, France -
- Democracy Now! News Program - In Virginia, Democratic Senatorial candidate James Webb’s last name ... GOP resorting to dirty tactics-robocalls designed to harass and ...
ProgressiveU.org, CA -
... it even MORE cautiously since these people are likely not NEAR as responsive, and are MUCH more likely to file these complaints against the robocalls, and get ...
Vote Theft, Robocalls, and Terry Nelson
AlterNet, CA - ... There's often a trail of gray area electoral tactics, dishonest mailers and ads, lying robocalls, and a history of flouting FEC or IRS law. ...
Daily Kos: Republicans Facing $1 Billion In Fines In New Hampshire ...... So in true GOP form, the NRCC decided to carpet bomb our state with robocalls that pretend to come from the Hodes campaign, while eventually providing ...
Holding Our Collective Breath
TPMCafe, NY - ... Today, there are a couple of things that are somewhat discouraging—robocalls and a GOP surge. Like I said, the stakes are high. ...
Sheila Lennon: HBO voting machine documentary online; Eat crow in ... HBO SPECIAL: Hacking Democracy is online at Google Video, all "1 hr 21 min 57 sec" of it. ...
Google a newspaper. Look for articles where the email or phone of the author is shown. Leave a message, send a message. Give him or her something to do tomorrow morning while drinking that first latte. Call all the newspaper Editors and TV personnel. If you get a recording or can't get through, call as though you want to place an ad and then TELL THOSE PEOPLE.
Get out your old Clash records. Daniel Ortega is winning in Nicaragua and the US is promising sanctions. Hey if it's democracy, why can't Nicaragua have socialism and Iraq have radical Islam that represses women? It's what the people vote for. Isn't democracy when people get what they vote for?!
Oh I forgot. Maybe Nicaragua doesn't have oil. Venezuela has oil. What does Nicaragua have that we care about? Rum, coffee, bananas or tobacco? Cocaine? It's deja vu all over again, with Jimmy Carter v Ollie North. Some things never change.
I send positive thoughts and energy across the oceans. Right now, these elections of yours, have important ramifications for us all across the world. We are counting on your success because to fail would be unthinkable. I think only of your success.
Remember the 'value voters?'
This poster is totally ironic.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3326/816/1024/haggarddobson.jpg
woz,
Thanks for wishing us well. We pray we're successful too. We pray we can stop the machine fraud.
We pray that we so overwhelm them that they can't possibly cheat again.
The world knows Kerry really won in o4. Let's hope that we don't watch the same this year.
In the Reaganista years, the watchword motto of the international arms race was "Trust, but verify."
The same watchword motto can be applied to today's electoral processes. But so can a variation on the same theme: "Pray, but actify."
James said that "Faith without works is dead." Well, today is a day of reckoning in every town, every village, every hamlet all across this country. And having faith that the sun will coming shining out of the darkness again today is a beautiful thing, but it requires that we work hard if we're to accomplish that goal.
So pray if you will, but work if you must. (And you must. Believe me, you must.) Send your thoughts to the skies, but put your boots on the ground.
Your work is cut out for you. Whether the sun comes out today or darkness still reigns at the heart of our country's government at day's end ultimately depends on you, and on what you do today.
So get out there and do whatever needs to be done, wherever it is that you are today. Call. Write. Canvass. Drive. Monitor. Motivate. But above all, VOTE.
And make sure that everyone you know or meet or can kind find hiding underneath a stone votes, too.
It's morning in America. Here comes the sun. So go do that voodoo that you do so well!
and vote as if your life depends on it -- because it does,
Otter
Today's quote on my Wisdom of the East calendar...
"The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes."
- Confucius
Just cast my bailette in Palm Beach.
Very tricky rethugery... dude holding big sign outside building that says "PUNCH FOLEY!!! Vote Joe!"
At first glance, it looks like a slap at Foley, I almost gave the guy a thumbs up... but upon further review, who knows where that thumb mighta gone.
Best wishes to all today, and thanks for ALL the blood, sweat & tears.
Cocktails in the lounge this evening, see ya there.
This is from the problematic San Diego County. It seems the corrupt County Registrar, Mikel Haas continues with his dirty tricks. California affects everyone in this country. We need to change our elections. We need to demand laws that make it easy for citizens to vote and to have all votes counted. Enough is enough.
San Diego Judge Denies Writ Seeking to Force County to Count Paper Ballots as 'Normal Ballots' as Ordered by CA Secretary of State--Registrar Mikel Haas' Promise to Defy the SoS and NOT Count Paper Ballots Until Thursday Moves Forward==VelvetRevolution.us Helping to Fund Appeal
The lawsuit brought last week in San Diego to force Registrar Mikel Haas to obey an order from the Secretary of State's office that paper ballots should be counted as "normal ballots" was denied in San Diego Superior Court today.
The writ, originally filed in Appeals Court last week, was denied on jurisdictional grounds and refiled in the Superior Court. Due to time constraints at that point, the section of the complaint seeking to stop voting machine "sleepovers" (which have now been ongoing for a full three weeks in the county) was dropped when the case was re-filed.
The denial today, which had also sought to force Haas to inform San Diego voters at the polls of their right to vote on a paper ballot, will be appealed according to Carlsbad, CA attorney Ken Simpkins. Election Integrity organization VelvetRevolution.us' Strike Force continues to raise money to fund such court actions, as it did with the original filing and several others — including the contested Francine Busby/Brian Bilbray special U.S. House election last Summer.
I spoke with Simpkins earlier today about the court ruling and the Judge who didn't seem to understand the differences between provisional, absentee and "normal ballots". Paper ballots, requested by any California voter, are supposed to be counted as "normal ballots" on election night, according to a memo from the CA SoS.
As time is way short for me right now, here's a quick transcript of my notes of the conversation I had with Simpkins, describing the judge who reportedly made his feelings known early on during the questioning when he referred to E-Voting as "the appropriate wave of the future"…
Got in there [Superior Court] at 8:30am this morning, and nobody seemed to know about the writ or when it would be heard. Someone got the judge on the phone, and a staffer reported that he said originally 'I'm not gonna hear the writ today and I'm not gonna recuse myself.'
I go to the residing Judge's office and told the story. A few minutes later I'm told "we just heard from Vargas' dept. and he decided to hear the writ at 10:30am"
At the hearing: Judge entertained about 20 mins of oral argument.
Would not concede that counting paper ballots on the Thursday after the election (while "counting" the machine votes on Election night) was an equal protection issue.
His questions made clear that, in his mind, "as long as the ballots are being counted at all, there's no equal protection issue." To him, "a provisional ballot was the same as an absentee ballot which was the same as paper ballots" at the polls as ordered by the SoS to be counted as "a normal ballot" (as opposed to an absentee or provisional which is checked for validity first before being counted or not).
Judge just seemed to not understand that by counting the paper ballots on Thursday, instead of on Election Night as "normal ballots" [San Diego County Registrar Mikel] Haas has created a new class of ballots. And that you can't discriminate against those ballots.
You could tell by the Judge's questions from the beginning where he was going. He was talking about these electronic voting machines as "the appropriate wave of the future."
The whole thing was just somewhat surreal.
An emailer from San Diego, who was in the gallery sends this tonight…
I was also in the gallery and the judge kept confusing absentee ballots, where the signature has to be verified before the ballot can be counted, with paper ballots cast at the polls, where the voter has already signed the voter registration book before being allowed to cast a vote and no further signature verification is required. Obviously it takes much longer to verify signatures than to just run ballots through scanners.
It appears that the judge did not happen to see the HBO special, "Hacking Democracy," and is not aware that Diebold doesn't always tell the truth, and that elections officials don't always comply with the law.
In this case, Haas has said that that he cannot comply with the Secretary of State's directives to make paper ballots available to any voter who wants one, and to treat them as normal ballots, because Haas believes it would be "inconvenient" for him to do that.
I've already chipped in $100 and I'm hoping for a miracle–that this decision can be appealed and possibly even reversed.
I told my Uncle that Cheney was hunting in SD today (we all used to live there). He said, "I'm surprised he didn't invite John Kerry along."
Elizabeth,
Dick is following the election concerns; email him re. anything you want to throw some light on today.
richardbelldc at hotmail.
As for everyone here, I now we are on edge; let's touch base again tonight.
Love and light to all.
Tomorrow, as I go to the polls to vote, on my left hand will be the initials KB and on my right hand DB.
Cheers
Posted by: KerryDemocrat at November 6, 2006 11:52 PM
Thank you KD. I am glad I got the LEFT hand! ;)
And as for anything Dick and I have stood up for, know that we always stand up for all of you.
dianne hope the rains don't effect you.Thanks for all the hard work especially madame. oncall.otter.suz et al.We are proving that we at the dcp can make a difference for democracy.any last minute GOTV in Rhode Island appreciated contact oncall for details.
And thanks to YOU Ira, for EVERYTHING you have been doing. Your efforts have been tireless. I've emailed oncall for the a calling list.
Last-minute snub
The president and his staff were offended by the last-minute snub by Charlie Crist, the Republican candidate to succeed term-limited Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. The White House scheduled the stop here in the conservative Panhandle as a favor to Jeb Bush entirely for Crist's benefit. But Crist decided to go elsewhere in the state. The White House schedule Monday morning still listed Crist as introducing the president.
Rove did not hide his consternation: "Rather than being with the governor and the president and 10,000 people in Pensacola, they made a last-minute decision to go to Palm Beach. Let's look at the comparison. Let's see how many people show up in Palm Beach on 24 hours' notice versus 8,000 or 9,000 people in Pensacola."
The president was left with a rainy-day rally here for no one. The local congressman does not face a competitive race and the Bush brothers are estranged from Rep. Katherine Harris, the GOP Senate candidate, who polls show losing in a rout. Harris was given a three-minute speaking slot more than an hour before the president arrived and was not on stage during his appearance. Bush never uttered her name.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15596732/
Everyone, I know how hard you've been working this election. I'll pray that things go well for you in your area.
For me, it's terrible reminder of 04. It's bitter cold and pouring down rain here. I hope there are no lines outside the doors in Ohio like last time.
carol. you can call rhode island office directly it 401- something and ask to speak directly with Ami or Carolyn tell you are adcp member and Ira nagged you to help.The will fax you a list. dcp members are cloing in on 5oo calls into Rhode Island where polls show it to be 1% point race. I reaaly want the Senate back for Judicial selections. Sorry to keep nagging. Keep the metal to the pedal.We can smell change
Bubba
Thanks! Some polling places have been changed because of swollen rivers and we have water in our basement, but it's starting to subside.
Glad to see my neighbor who has cerebral palsy out in front of the bus stop this morning, going to vote.
Let's hope that voter suppression and cheating are widely publicized. Here, Republicans were afraid of slipshod checking of signatures and Democrats were worrying more about electronic machines. TruthOut had an article about voter suppression in Virginia and I read one where more voters were registered some places than there are population.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776
Man must in some way come to his senses. He must extricate himself from this terrible involvement in both the obvious & hidden mechanisms of totality, from consumption to repression, from advertising to manipulation through television. He must rebel against his role as a helpless cog in the gigantic &
enormous machinery hurtling God knows where. He must discover again, within himself, a deeper sense of responsibility toward the world, which means responsibility toward something higher
than himself.
- Vaclav Havel
its petal to the metal but I am typing on 2 inch keybd so
forgive me.The Sheldon Whitehouse phone no. is at the bottom of their web site I worry a lot that I forgot to do more in a close race. Reached many still undecided voters in Rhode Islan at 9 pm last night. Thanks guys and women dcp troops.
Two cannibals are eating a clown.
One says to the other: "Does this taste funny to you?"
Voting machine problems bedevil at least three states
Election machine glitches caused delays and jangled nerves in at least three states today as voters began turning out for midterm elections that could set the tone for the last two years of President Bush's term in office.
Up for grabs are all 435 House seats, 33 Senate seats and governorships in 36 states as well as ballot initiatives in some states on such topics as gay marriage and stem-cell research.
Voting was delayed in dozens of precincts in Indiana and Ohio, while in Florida some election officials had little choice but to turn to paper ballots instead.
"We got five machines — one of them's got to work," said Willette Scullank, a troubleshooter from the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, elections board.
Election officials in Delaware County, Ind., planned to seek a court order to extend voting after an apparent computer error prevented voters from casting ballots in 75 precincts. Delaware County Clerk Karen Wenger said the cards that activate the machines were programmed incorrectly.
"We are working with precincts one-by-one over the telephone to get the problem fixed," Wenger said.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-07-election-main_x.htm
New Rules, Machines Frazzle Poll Workers
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1130AP_ELN_Voting_Problems.html
"Modern" country can't get its act together ..
I'm really glad western Washington has alot of people voting by absentee ballot, but for those who go to the polls, washed out roads & so on will definitely be a problem. Alot of schools are closed in areas near rivers, of which we have alot - Snohomish, Skykomish, Stillaguamish etc. - love those Native American names!
For those of you who remember, Vokoban stopped by the JK blog just now!
We voted early and now Dick is at JK land keeping track of voting stuff. I am here and monitoring--will make calls later today Ira! I have the dinner hour shift for that...
karen sorry to be the dcp nuge.
z
Hi Vokoban - do certainly remember!
Exit-Poll Secrecy Measures Aim to Plug Leaks to Blogs
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116287010711115239-EQOUoKqbsFDn784dPUru4ZeHreE_20071106.html
Two-by-two, polling specialists from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press will go into rooms in New York and Washington shortly before noon Tuesday. Their cellphones and BlackBerrys will be confiscated; proctors will monitor the doors; and for the next five hours, these experts will pore over exit-poll data from across the country.
If all goes well, only when they emerge from their cloisters will the legions of ravenous political bloggers have any chance of getting their hands on the earliest indication of which party will end up controlling Congress.
"The demand for info is intense, and if the safeguards aren't steel doors bolting people inside a room, it will get out," says Marc Ambinder, associate editor of National Journal's Hotline OnCall. "The insatiable appetite for this info will overwhelm the ability to keep it secret."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15526.htm
Elections or Electrons
(excerpts)
The Democratic presidential candidate won in 1992 and again in ‘96. He was impeached. The next Democratic presidential candidate to run won in 2000 by at least 500,000 votes nationwide, and in Florida by at least 16,000 votes that we know of. All one need do to confirm this is to reverse the definitive computer glitch in Velusia County alone which the board of elections has proved actually subtracted over 16,000 votes from Al Gore, thus fabricating George W. Bush’s 527 vote margin of victory.
(snip)
The next Democratic presidential candidate won yet another mathematical victory in 2004, and this time by a margin the exit polls and regression data now show to be an incredible five to eight million votes nationwide. The aggregated exit polls have never been wrong by even their specified 3% in all the years that they’ve been exercised. Yet in 2004 they showed a 6% error against 100 million votes. Analysts place the probability of such an error at 16,000,000:1 (one chance in sixteen million).2
If we halve the statistical margin, hell, if we quarter it, Kerry still wins.
(snip)
The Democrats have been winning consecutively and consistently for 12 years running! Do the math. One plus one does not equal eight. Winning and losing are different. Mathematics IS an exact science.
(snip)
Well, Dems, it is time to become vertebrate! Because, on Tuesday, November 7th, those same voters who’ve supported you and many of those who traditionally haven’t, will cast ballots that could, if they are counted, regain both houses of congress for your party. A boatload of the loftiest Republicans should then prepare to face indictments, impeachment proceedings, and both international and domestic war crimes tribunals, the latter being a hideous thing that they, themselves, have resurrected. But the instigation of such justice will take backbone – loyal opposition backbone.
(snip_
This year some eighty percent of all U.S. votes will be tabulated on electronic machines.
(snip)
In a major change, neither will any of the traditional national exit polls be carried during the day. There’ll be no Associated Press or Edison exit poll reports before 5:00PM to assuage what is already the greatest crisis of confidence entering an election in American history. This despite that such data would be priceless if open to timely analysis.
(snip)
Conclusion: I was raised by devoutly Republican parents in Teddy Roosevelt’s Republican home town, surrounded by Republican friends, Republican neighbors, and Republican everything else. As a teen member of the Young Republicans, I drove elders and dissabled (regardless of party affiliation) to the polls on Election Day.
(snip)
Fast forward to today. The gang of “Republican” extremists now running and ruining our country bear these folks no resemblance whatsoever, but only serve to defile their memory.
(snip)
(snip)
As for the revolution, hell, it’s been underway ever since 1992 when the Democrats began winning elections but slowly losing the will and the power to govern. If the Dems win again this day, but the so called “Republicans” succeed in retaining power, the revolution will be over.
The real haters of democracy will have overthrown the America of her founding fathers and done so without firing a shot.
Dom Stasi is Chief Technology Officer for a national television network. An Air Force veteran, pilot, engineer on Project Apollo, and author of two books and twenty-seven peer reviewed papers, he is a widely published science and technology writer.
Here is the actual phone call to a Virginian, who reported robo-calling to suppress his/her vote to the Webb campaign. Rahm Immanuel said the DCCC will be going after these Republican robo-calls with the FCC, which levies a
$500 fine per call, if found guilty.
http://www.webbforsenate.com/media/phone_message.wav
Have been doing MoveOn's 'Call for Change' from home...
If you don't think even a few calls makes a difference...I just talked to an elderly woman who had tried to find her polling place but couldn't find it. When I said I'm calling to remind you to vote, she said "I tried to vote, but I couldn't find the place." I kept her on the line, went to the DFL website, found her polling location and told her where to vote. She thanked me enthusiastically and said she was going to vote right away.
It makes a difference.
God Bless America.
Vic, You are my hero.
K --
Right back at ya, baby!
Voting nightmare: Democrats seek extension
By George Merritt
Denver Post Staff Writer
Democratic party leaders are planning to seek a two-hour extension for voting in Denver, due to massive computer problems which have created long lines, and kept many from casting their vote.
Party spokesman Brian Mason said a motion is being prepared, in response to "the huge problems in Denver this morning."
The problems began right at 7 a.m. as computer problems at the voter-check in stations bogged down, creating a bottleneck in the first hour of voting as a rush to the polls overloaded the system.
-snip-
"It's just like traffic on (Interstate) 25," Coles said. "It's as if we are building two more I-25s right next to it" to ease the traffic congestion.
But the fix did not come in time to help some voters who hoped to vote before heading to work.
At Denver Botanic Gardens, more than 200 voters backed up in a line that stretched out of the gates and down the block more than half way to 11th Avenue.
"We will not get to vote today," said a frustrated Lauren Brockman as he left the Botanic Gardens.
He lined up at 6:45 a.m. hoping to beat the rush, only to stand in line for close to an hour before leaving.
But an hour wait was short, compared to some.
more...
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4616285
Posted by: monkey at November 7, 2006 01:53 PM
I'm on my way to vote, and I have the initials of each of you on both of my hands. They might think I am a tatooed lady, but that's okay!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
Wish I could have done more this season, but as you all know circumstances deterred that. But I am so very thankful for each one of you!!!! I just can't believe how much difference you have made, each one of you!!!!!
Monkey, what happened in Denver this morning is truly a disaster. I hope they are allowed an extension.
My prayer is: "Please, God, I beg you with all begness that we may vote out this evil regime."
Amen.
Loved seeing Ford in Tennessee today saying he "loves Jesus and is a Democrat because he believes working men and women's children deserve to have it as good as the elite's children."
Also, good work, peeps. It is all over MSNBC and CNN today about possible voter fraud issues, and about the tricky robo-calls! Two years ago we weren't hearing anything at all about any of this in the media!
See you all in the lounge this evening.
Oh, and re: the robocalls:
CNN announced that the FBI is tracing the origins of those robocalls - many were placed from phones with caller ID's.
depressing Greg Palast article, but something to think about
http://www.gregpalast.com/how-they-stole-the-mid-term-election
We may win alot of turf and maybe alot of Americans are thinking the right way, but it's pretty undeniable that some of the dirty tricks Palast outlines have happened.
Just to let everyone know, I called Rhode Island at 9 A.M. central and spoke with Amy. She told me they had enough people and that they were "saturated". She was going to call back if needed help and I have not heard from her. She sounded a bit more optimistic than I expected. Let's hope all is well in Rhode Island.
top story http://www.dailykos.com
Today is the end of the electronic voting machine
by kos
Republicans are complaining about voting irregularities as loudly as we are today. A Republican governor, two Republican congressmen turned away from the polls. Votes supposedly switching in electronic voting machines in New Jersey. Complaints coming from New Mexico and elsewhere.
Here's the bottom line -- no one trusts those machines anymore. And not only do they damage the integrity of our democracy, but they give losing campaigns an excuse to grandstand and further erode faith in our system. Paper ballots (or optical scan) is a solution, but it doesn't solve the problem of voter turnout, voter intimidation, the problems with inclement weather, and lack of voter education when entering the booth.
Jeremy Wright has led a campaign to promote Oregon-style vote by mail (which is now in place in most of Washington state). He just posted a diary on the mechanics of it.
It's clear the current system is broken. We have dumped hundreds of millions of dollars and it's not getting any better. Time to cut our losses and look at the most sensible solution available.
--NOTE - In Washington most of us vote by mail now and it's such a good thing, as we're all flooded and in an emergency state today with National Guards rescuing people in areas near water, thousands of school children at home.
More on vote by mail.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) issued this press release:
As already reported voting difficulties continue to frustrate voters in another decisive election, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden renewed his proposal to simplify the way Americans vote. Wyden has introduced legislation to provide funds to help states adopt Vote by Mail election systems, such as Oregon's.
"The great Yogi Berra said it best: 'It's Déjà vu all over again.' Except instead of the boys of October, we're talking about the long lines and broken machines of November." Wyden said. "Allegations of election fraud and voter suppression were once rarities, today they're business as usual for the American voter. It's time to stop throwing taxpayer dollars at a broken system. Oregonians have a solution--Vote by Mail."
For more than a decade Oregonians have been successfully voting by mail. Up to three weeks before Election Day, ballots are sent to all registered voters, giving busy families time to research their votes and carefully mark their ballots, which are then either dropped in the mailbox or delivered to secure drop boxes at libraries, county offices and other convenient locations. Trained election officials then match the signature on each ballot against the signature on each voter's registration card, before processing the vote.
The transparency of Vote by Mail eliminates virtually all fraud, while addressing many traditional voting challenges:
Vote by Mail eliminates poll problems--there are no long lines, polls to open late or even confusion about where to vote.
Vote by Mail eliminates voter roll issues and the need for provisional ballots--ballots are mailed only to registered voters at their official address. Those who do not receive a ballot have ample time to resolve the issue with election officials.
Vote by Mail virtually eliminates voter fraud--no vote is processed or counted until a trained election official is satisfied that the signature on the ballot matches the signature on the voter's registration card.
Vote by Mail reduces the risk of voter intimidation--a 2003 study of Oregon voters showed that groups--like the elderly--who are most vulnerable to coercion prefer Vote by Mail.
Vote by Mail creates a paper trail.
Vote by Mail increases voter turnout--by eliminating the need to stand in line at the polling place, voting becomes convenient for hourly wage employees and other working families. Oregon's consistently ranks among the top five states in voter participation.
Vote by Mail encourages educated voters--receiving ballots weeks in advance, gives voters an opportunity to research issues and deliberate in a way that is not possible in a voting booth.
Vote by Mail saves taxpayer dollars--because there is no longer a need to transport equipment to polling stations and to hire and train poll workers, Oregon has reduced its election-related costs by 30 percent since implementing Vote by Mail.
In September of this year, building on the success of Vote by Mail in his own state, Wyden teamed up with Senators John Kerry and Barack Obama to sponsor legislation to help other states implement their own version of VBM. Wyden's bill creates a $110 million, three-year grant program to provide funds to states to help offset the cost of adopting VBM election systems. States have the option of adopting VBM statewide, within a group of selected counties (or municipalities in states where elections are overseen at this level), or even in a single county or municipality.
"Vote by Mail works. This legislation gives states funds they can use to make the transition away from traditional voting methods that have led to so many problems, so many concerns and so little confidence in the American election system.," Wyden said.
Sheldon Whitehouse contact: Ami/Carolyn 401-490-8683 Cranston Rhode Island. Lets make one last push to assure a Democratic Senate tonight.
http://blog.johnkerry.com/2006/11/machine_breakdowns_prevent_vot.html#more
That is what Dick is doing today.
If you are just sitting around or making calls from home, I am going to be on Washington Post radio at around 4:15 east coast time, talking about body language.
You can listen live:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/wtwpradio/listen.html#
Fox News: Lieberman's Field Staff?
Just heard this story that came from one of our volunteers in Milford… apparently, he was the only person from any campaign pollstanding at a polling place in Milford earlier this morning. All of a sudden, two or three out-of-state (Fox News vans ccompanied by a Fox News crew) pull up and unload a bunch of Lieberman lawn signs, placed right in front of the Lamont signs that had already been planted. And, what do you know, after a few more minutes, who shows up but Joe himself, ready for the cameras.
Who needs a field organization (or an advance team) when you’ve got Fox?
http://nedlamont.com/blog/2170/fox-news-liebermans-field-staff
This is the one I have been working on.
from http://www.seattlepi.com
Democrats not fazed by flooded polls
The most likely effect of rain on the elections at this point will be delay in knowing the outcome of the hotly contested 8th District Congressional race between U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert and challenger Darcy Burner, said Democratic spokesman Kelly Steele.
Rain could slow the count of absentee ballots, which could delay results even further than anticipated. Because of the closeness of that race, party officials hadn't expected to know the outcome by Tuesday night.
Otherwise, the rainy weather doesn't appear to have dampened voter or volunteer enthusiasm, he said.
"Thousands of volunteers have shown up and are still doing phone calling and canvassing," he said. "Each county and each situation deals with it (the weather) a little differently."
Voters seem to be finding their way to either their own polling place, or in a few cases, alternative polling places, Steele said.
"Eighty percent of Washington voters have already voted," he said. "This has been a three-week long election day."
Here is a sample of how poll closures in flooded areas have handled. Hope things go smoothly for those who did not use mail-in ballots.
http://www.rpin.org/rpinweb/ViewPosting.aspx?PostingID=306
These are swing areas with approx. equal numbers of Rs Ds and Is.
Pollworker tries to choke voter; man smashes electronic voting machine with paperweight -
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1130AP_ELN_Poll_Worker_Assault.html
Kentucky.
Isolated incidents but reminders of how high emotions are running.
For perspective, read Stuart Rothenbert or Charles Cook nonpartisan predictions & hope for the best (Google either name). There are also several guides for those watching for returns, as we traverse the time zones tonight - check major newspapers. A little short on links and have to run.
I just got back from a horendous day. Placing signs everywhere in freezing pouring rain! I just got back and voted. Turnout was quite high all day long. I can't decide what it fortells for my area! The signs didn't really come out in force until today. I know one precinct chair on the Republican side has had extra signs sitting by her house for people to pick up for free--and yet they have been sitting there untaken for weeks!
I feel like I can't breathe. The excitement, fear and worry is similar to 04.
I hope that the way the media ignored 04's election problems will come to bite them in the butt.
And remember the Republican party is the ones that refused to look into machine problems in 04. Will this get them in the keister too?
Report on newspaper coverage of voting problems.
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003353389
I know nothing about tv.
i am making calls to PA for Casey........
Armitage's Election Hopes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/06/AR2006110601275.html
Former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage, who was an influential adviser to Colin L. Powell when Powell was secretary of state, has weighed in on today's midterm elections, saying they offer the United States a chance to win back lost allies around the world.
"The message I think from the electorate is that fear doesn't work. You've got to go back to what is traditionally ours, and we've got to go back to those things that made us important in the eyes of the world," Armitage said yesterday in a speech in Canberra, Australia, according to Reuters...
Love it:
~snip~
...American voters today are poised to breach Bush's bubble, exposing him to the real world.
In the real world, just because he says something doesn't make it so. In the real world, he can't just demonize people who don't agree with him -- he has to work with them. And in the real world, he is the president of all the people, not just his partisan supporters...
~snip~
Bubble Trouble
WaPo: http://tinyurl.com/9gx78
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9149&t5
Early returns on voting machines
(snip)
Quote of the day: “We got five machines — one of them's got to work," said Willette Scullank, a trouble shooter from the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, elections board.”
Moments ago this post was listed first on Google News among some 434 online articles about electronic voting. Needless to say, that’s a good thing in terms of generating traffic. … Then news broke that Britney Spears is divorcing what’s-his-name. … Election? What election?
We’ll soldier on figuring that a few of you still care.
A call to you lawyers out there: Is there any chance this fellow can claim self-defense? From the AP: “A man was arrested at a polling site Tuesday after election workers said he smashed an electronic voting machine with a paperweight, police said. Michael Young, 43, of Allentown, will face charges of felony criminal mischief and tampering with voting machines, Assistant Police Chief Ronald Manescu said. … "He came in here very peaceably and showed his ID, then he got on the machine and just snapped," volunteer Gladys Pezoldt told The Morning Call of Allentown.
Things got off to a rocky start in Ohio – needless to say – but appear to be getting better. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: “As of 12:30 p.m. all polling places in Cuyahoga County were using electronic voting machines, a Board of Elections spokesman said. However, it’s not clear whether all machines are working at every polling place. … This morning, more than 40 polling places in Cuyahoga County reported problems when the polls opened.”
In Denver, you just don’t want to be an IT professional involved in running this election: From the Denver Post: “Democratic party leaders are planning to seek a two-hour extension for voting in Denver, due to massive computer problems which have created long lines, and kept many from casting their vote. Party spokesman Brian Mason said a motion is being prepared, in response to ‘the huge problems in Denver this morning.’ ”
Maybe there are reports out there of these screw-ups benefiting Democratic candidates at the expense of their Republican opponents, but I just don’t come across them. From TPM Café: “My wife just came home from voting here in Webster Groves MO. She used the electronic touch-screen voting system. . . She touched Claire McCaskill's picture and the machine recorded a vote for Jim Talent. She then called one of the people running the polling center who helped her correct the problem. My wife then had to call the person over another time after it recorded her vote a Republican again. In her frustration she asked the person who was responsible for the design of this system. The polling person leaned in very close to my wife and whispered, 'We're f----d.' "
No liberal conspiracy, this distaste for electronic voting machines. Why Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman and conservative commentator Bob Novak have been caught with their hands inside the paper-ballot box … despite having the option to e-vote, according to Talking Points Memo.
At the risk of appearing to be fair, it’s worth noting that optical scanning equipment didn’t do much better at one Ohio polling place, where a member of Congress attempting to vote for herself (presumably) was both thwarted and filmed.
The Daily Advertiser in Louisiana leaves no malfunctioning voting machine unturned: “A mechanic is on the way to the former St. Antoine Elementary School to check on a voting machine that is reportedly malfunctioning, said Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court Louis Perret.” … We’ll be sure to keep an eye on the situation at St. Antoine Elementary School.
From the AP: “WASHINGTON — Voting machines began wreaking havoc the minute the polls opened Tuesday, delaying voters in dozens of Indiana and Ohio precincts and leaving some in Florida with little choice but turn to paper ballots instead.”
From The CourierPost in New Jersey: About 30 of Camden County's 700 voting machines have experienced problems today, according to Phyllis Pearl, superintendent of elections.”
From Pittsburgh.com: “A few hours after the polls opened, there were problems reported with electronic voting machines.”
From CBS4.com in Florida: “Voters are urged to cast their ballots carefully as scattered reports of election machine glitches have been reported around South Florida during early voting. CBS4’s Dave Malkoff spoke to early voter, John Mabe who claims when he cast his vote at the Lemon City library early voting facility for Jim Davis, the machine registered Charlie Crist as the correct vote.”
From The State in South Carolina: “The first known technology glitch in today’s election has occurred, and that in the state office responsible for overseeing the election. The S.C. Election Commission’s Web site, www.scvotes.org, went down shortly before 8:30 a.m.”
From LancasterOnline in Pa.: “Voters at several polls around Lancaster County have reported issues using electronic touch-screen voting machines. Reports from Lancaster’s 9th Ward, fourth precinct; 2nd Ward, first and second precincts; 6th Ward, first precinct; 8th Ward, eighth and ninth precinct; and Manheim Township’s 7th district had reports of malfunctioning machines and/or voter confusion about how to use the electronic machines.”
Update from NBC in Columbus, Ohio: Even efforts to address the problem are causing problems … “A flood of election-related calls knocked out the phone system serving Franklin County offices on Tuesday morning. County Elections Director Matthew Damschroder said the phone lines were overwhelmed by voters wondering where to vote and poll workers needing help with electronic voting machines.”
Another update: From Central Florida News 13: Seems that spring ahead/fall back stuff was too tricky for some of the machines. “Glitches are showing up on touch screen voting machines in Volusia and other counties around Central Florida. The Volusia Supervisor of Elections says the problems started showing up when the automatic clock inside the machines did not reset to make up for Daylight Saving Time.”
One more: They’re voting in California now, which, of course, means that the machines are balking there, too. From SignOnSanDiego.com: “Computerized voting machines in several parts of the county weren't working early Tuesday morning and voters were forced to use paper ballots instead. But a county spokesman said there had been no reports of widespread problems with the machines. Voting machine glitches were reported in Birdland, City Heights, South Park, La Mesa and National City.”
Can’t call this one a “glitch:” From WMC TV in Memphis comes news of a major snafu where the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate has already filed a challenge: With Tennessee voters going to the polls, Harold Ford Jr. claimed this morning that polling locations in Memphis and in Jackson shut down because their voting machines weren't working. 'They told all the polling workers to go home and the election officials to go home without giving any real guidance to voters. We've already leveled one (challenge) on behalf of voters who have been told they'd have to wait until later today to vote,' Ford said."
More trouble out West, this one steaming those who like to vote before getting to work. From The Daily Herald in Utah: “Encoder problems at most, if not all, of the 118 voting stations left early morning voters standing in line for more than an hour waiting to cast their electronic ballots. There were problems with the encoders at most, if not all, of the polls in Utah County, said Sandy Hoffmann, elections coordinator for Utah County, but all of the problems have been remedied.”
This one seems to qualify as an exception to the rule in that it cites only a single problem. From the Roanoke Times in Virginia: “Turnout in today’s election was steady in the Roanoke and New River valleys, with at least one voting machine glitch causing a slight backup.”
In South Carolina the problems are causing bad-hair days. From MyrtleBeach.com: “Sandy Martin, Voters Registration & Election director for Horry County, said she felt like pulling her hair out because of the chaos of Tuesday morning. I don't have a lot of hair, and I don't need to be pulling it out," said Martin of her blond-brown locks. "It's been chaotic. It's been a hectic morning."
I'm hitting the irc around 7pm. (After dinner is done. Or at least started cooking. If you see my nick but don't see me, it's because I can't cook and chat at the same time. In a cyber sense and a real-life sense.)
Stop making sense... :p
Dick Lugar re-elected!
He was running unopposed.
Unconfirmed exit polls show large gains for Democrats
RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday November 7, 2006
Unconfirmed exit polls circulating online are indicating major Democratic victories in the US Senate, RAW STORY has learned.
The list finds Republicans leading in just 2 of 9 key races, in Arizona and Tennessee.
Exit polls in 2000 and 2004 overestimated the performance of Democrats in final tallies by sometimes large margins.
The list, as acquired by RAW STORY, follows:
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Democrats leading in:
* VA: 53-46
* RI: 53-46
* PA: 57-42
* OH: 57-43
* NJ: 53-45
* MT: 53-46
* MO: 50-48
Republicans leading:
* TN: 51-48
* AZ: 50-46
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Unconfirmed_exit_polls_show_large_gains_1107.html
Observer, Fox polls show gains for Democrats in Senate
RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday November 7, 2006
Fox News Channel is reporting live on air strong showings for Democrats in six key Senate races, with Republicans maintaining three seats. Fox failed to disclose which seats were in play, saying they didn't want to affect voter turnout.
The New York Observer is also reporting Democratic leads in four key Senate races, with no information available on others. That list follows.
RAW STORY has yet to acquire House exit polling, but will move when available.
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Casey (D) 61 - Santorum 38 (R)
Cardin (D) 51 - Steele 48 (R)
McCaskill (D)53 - Talent 46 (R)
Webb 55 (D) - Allen 45 (R)
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DEVELOPING.....
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Observer_Fox_polls_show_gains_for_1107.html
CNN projects Vermont independent Bernie Sanders -- who says he will caucus with Democrats -- will win Senate seat.
monkey those exit polls look wonderful and show even Ford with an outside chance.Sorry if I overreacted to Rhode Island oncall hopefully we can all go home from our nonstop work and celebrate soon. We have waited for 6 years..After two blown elections it doesn't hurt to be overly prepare.
Irc open if you can join.
Is there smoke around here? Or are people beating a fast track to the polls today to vote out the corrupt Republicans.
As was said in 04, "When people have had enough pain they'll say, 'Stop!'" Looks like maybe there's a stop sign out there!
Judge orders some Ohio polls open until 10 PM...
CNN projects Democratic wins for incumbent West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd and Ted Strickland in the Ohio gubernatorial race.
(CNN) -- A Republican incumbent trailed Tuesday in early results in a much-watched U.S. House race in Indiana, which may be an early indicator of voter sentiment that could swing control of the chamber.
With 15 percent of precincts reporting in Indiana's 8th Congressional District, Rep. John Hostettler trailed Democrat Brad Ellsworth 70 percent to 30 percent.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/election.house/index.html
One thing for sure,Rick insanity will be history !! MSNBC just showed FORD AHEAD!!
Has anyone ever seen Katherine Harris and Leona Helmsley in the same room? Just curious.
BTW, Harris went down in flames to Bill Nelson.
NBC projects governor winners: Patrick, D-Mass.; Rendell, D-Pa.
A round on me in the IRC to all you hardworking DCPers...we are u/w and I can't join you...but good luck and I'm tracking the results in between endless watches.
Hi V! We are having a WONDERFUL time and thinking of you too!
WOW----ZERS tonight ! Finally the people have spoken and wakened up from the dead !
Just bet joe-mentum thinks he now has mandate and will run as an indy in 08...on the backs of the reps. He will owe them big time. He may caucaus with us,but he'll vote with them.
We're having thunder tonight a rarity here. The gods must be dancing.
Patti -
I hope he DOESN'T caucus with us anymore after this.
nuf said!!
Polls just closed in Washington. Cantwell projected to win.
Things certainly could have been worse! Let's keep any momentum we get going!!
At friends & saw a few talking heads - we don't have cable here but noticed they all had green or orange or other colors of ties other than red or blue. Funny.D
Oh, Ratzzzzzzzzzzz
The MN governor's race went from Hatch out in the lead to a statistical dead heat with Hatch only a few thousand votes ahead, and now it seems the Con is a few thousand in the lead, but the two are still a statistical dead heat.
Not all precincts are in.
Looks to be an all-nighter.
State law says that if the difference for any race is less than one half of one percent that there's a recount. Looks like there has to be a recount in the Hennepin Co. sheriff's race anyway, since that one is too close to call, too.
Matthews just asked Murtha:"what's the first order of business?"
Murtha replied:"We're going back to work for the people,none of this two days a week." Just love that guy!
Sparrow:
Breathe!
Chuck in Houston
Missouri is Democrat for Senate. Down to Virginia. Please go Old Dominion!
Chuck in Houston
On ABC news, with 99% reporting, Webb is up by just under 12,000 votes.
Chuck in Houston
WaPo shows MT Tester 51% Burns 47% with 66% reporting
Chuck in Houston
I can go to sleep now...my state is BLUE! It's been a good night for the american people...a good start at rectifying the wrong that has been done over the last 6 years.
Jeffrey Toobin saying a recount in VA is less likely since the margin is now 11000+ (instead of 1500 like it was when the recount talk began)...also looking like Montana will go to the dem