Comments on: Another Defeat for Voter Suppression

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:56:54 +0000

Cool bit of technology. http://www.letters2president.org/

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:12:06 +0000

Today’s Polls, 10/23: McCain on Life Support
By Nate Silver on kansas

This is not the time when John McCain can afford a bad polling day. And yet he’s had perhaps his worst one of the year.

The national trackers were essentially a push — three moved toward Obama, two toward McCain, two were flat — but the action today is at the state level. And boy, there is a lot of action: 29 new state polls enterring our database. And many of them contain great news for Obama.

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:33:48 +0000

I’ve got wood doors on both front and back–but they’re warped so badly as to let big drafts in both sides of the house.

Doors. They’re not cheap.

By: klynn

klynn — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:04:54 +0000

Wow, this get deeper and deeper. We need to call McCain out on this.

http://thejournal.epluribusmed.....r-november

More WOW! This on Huffpost just two days ago tying this guy to the missing emails:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....36653.html

An October 11, 2006 meeting between Connell, GovTech Solutions President Randy Cole (who is now running for State Representative in Ohio) and Cybrinth CEO Stephen Spoonamore, raises more than a few questions regarding Connell’s loyalty to the Bushes. At the time, Spoonamore, a leading cyber security expert, was considering a project with Connell. During this meeting, Spoonamore indicated that Connell asked him about ways to “permanently destroy hard drives.” Spoonamore said, “If this is what I think you’re talking about, this meeting is over.”

This whole article is worth reading. It put the recent DOJ USAG investigation into a nice context and one that ends up tied to Ohio 2004.

By: klynn

klynn — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:55:42 +0000

I had totally missed this October 9th article by Mark Crispin Miller regarding asking McCain to fire Connell:

http://www.opednews.com/articl.....09-51.html

Velvet Revolution today issued a press release calling for Republican candidate John McCain to fire computer expert Michael Connell from his campaign for covering up alleged election manipulations of Karl Rove and others. Mr. Connell, the GOP’s top computer expert, was subpoenaed based on a September 19th court order to testify under oath in an Ohio federal lawsuit looking into serious allegations that Mr. Rove has directed a strategy to illegally manipulate elections through the use of computer technology. Rather than cooperate in the investigation, Mr. Connell hired attorneys close to the Bush/Cheney Administration and refused to appear for the deposition arguing client (GOP) confidentiality. Those attorneys have said that they will do everything possible to keep Mr. Connell from testifying before the November general election.

By: klynn

klynn — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:51:00 +0000

I forgot Huffpo covered this at the end of September as well:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....30347.html

By: Leen

Leen — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:36:36 +0000

In 2004 our Democratic County Chair Susan Gwinn had told all of us that southeastern Ohio had been targeted as ground zero. I talked with so many old grannies and granpas who were not going to vote for Bush no way no how. I still think the hanky panky (not enough machines etc) in Columbus stole the 2004 election for Bush

Brokaw: Rove revealed how Bush would win in Ohio
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Thursday October 23, 2008

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/....._1023.html

Ohio sec. of state hit by death threats, cyberattacks
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Thursday October 23, 2008

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/....._1023.html

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:31:03 +0000

Twelve days before the election, DOJ Voting Rights Division releases this news:

Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Massachusetts Secretary of State for Noncompliance with Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act
October 22, 2008
Press Release

By: PJEvans

PJEvans — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:05:06 +0000

Not quite OT:
The WH has fired Scott Bloch.
The big question is why are they firing now a guy who’s already said he’s quitting in January?

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:43:46 +0000

New Post Alert

The Goldwaters Endorse Obama