Oh my, did you see the CNN.com home page?

[garybeck]

Read CNN's new article and see their video coverage of e-voting problems here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/10/30/voting.machines/index.html


Here is the screenshot of the CNN home page this afternoon:


are they finally going to cover the voting machine issue this time?

[Drunken Irishman]

1. You mean that weird story about the haunted jail?

Yeah, what is up with that?

[Beaverhausen]

2. OT- Rob Reiner's mom died - the one who said "I'll have what she's having"

in When Harry Met Sally. RIP.

Ok - carry on.

[kenny blankenship]

3. Just in time to explain unexpected results, not in time to mobilize ppl to do something about it

[garybeck]

4. this gives people valid reason to doubt results if mccain wins

it's better than ignoring the issue completely.

[kenny blankenship]

8. I'm not worried that McBatshit is going to win, nor about cheating on his behalf

although there probably will be some cheating on his behalf. And the vote suppression moves here in GA, CO and elsewhere are already a form of cheating...

I'm more concerned-yes, concerned-that the unique capabilities of electronic balloting machines will be used to help out embattled Repuke Senators and Congressmen. Those machines have the ability to cobble results out of thin air in less time than it takes to sneeze. But cheaters have to take care not to be too blatant. Senator McBatshit is done. He cannot become President. His party knows he can't win, and half his party probably doesn't even want him to win. You can't steal an election from as far behind as he is and not have a violent revolution in response.

But there are all those other contests, which taken together represent the Repukes in a desperate fight for their life as a political party, that could be stolen.

[garybeck]

9. either way

whether your concerned about the prez race or congress, it's all the same machines, and the same problems.

[niyad]

5. did you see "democracy now" last night--had a very chilling segment on the electronic

machines, and how, once again, they are busy stealing the election:

Lawsuits, Machine Malfunctions and Missing Absentee Ballots Among Voting Rights Issues Facing Jittery Election
With the election less than a week away, the battle is on for voting rights. Early voters across the country are reporting long lines and problems with electronic voting machines. Republicans, meanwhile, continue to file lawsuits that could stop thousands from voting. We speak to Harvey Wasserman of Free Press and Brad Friedman of the Brad Blog.



Harvey Wasserman, Senior editor of the Ohio-based FreePress.org and co-author of What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election and How the GOP Stole America’s 2004 Election and Is Rigging 2008.

Brad Friedman, independent journalist and commentator on election issues. He is the creator of The Brad Blog and has reported extensively on vote rigging.


AMY GOODMAN: The election is less than a week away. The battle is on for voting rights. Early voters across the country are reporting long lines and problems with electronic voting machines, including vote flipping.
Republicans, meanwhile, continue to file lawsuits that could stop thousands from voting because their registration information does not exactly match government databases. Legal rulings in Wisconsin, Nevada and Ohio have rejected these challenges, and the US Supreme Court also dismissed a case earlier this month relating to 200,000 new voters in the battleground state of Ohio. But last week, the White House got involved and asked the Department of Justice to investigate the integrity of these 200,000 new voter registration forms. Ohio Democratic leaders, as well as the ACLU, have sent letters to the Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, urging him not to intervene in the election dispute in Ohio.
Meanwhile, in Colorado, more than 11,000 voters in Denver have not received absentee ballots because of a mistake made by the company Sequoia Voting Systems. Sequoia was supposed to have delivered 21,000 ballots to a Denver mail processing facility on October 16, but the company only delivered about half the requested ballots.
I’m joined now by two guests who have been the watchdogs for voting rights. Harvey Wasserman is senior editor of the Ohio-based freepress.org, and he’s co-author of four books on voter rights. What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election and How the GOP Stole America’s 2004 Election and Is Rigging 2008 are among them. He joins me from Columbus, Ohio. We’re also joined via video stream from Los Angeles by independent journalist Brad Friedman. He’s the creator of “The Brad Blog” at bradblog.com and has reported extensively on vote rigging.
We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Harvey Wasserman, let’s begin with you. Talk about the latest around this issue of the 200,000 new voters’ new voter registration forms.
HARVEY WASSERMAN: Well, the GOP is trying to disenfranchise these 200,000 people by challenging their right to vote, asking the Secretary of State here, Jennifer Brunner, to let the counties investigate and knock off the voter rolls, if they choose to, people who have minor discrepancies in their Social Security numbers or driver’s license numbers. And the Secretary of State has rightfully showed that many of these mistakes come from typographical errors when the numbers are entered in at the agencies. And so, essentially, what the GOP is doing is asking to disenfranchise people because of a minor typographical error. We are supporting the Secretary of State in resisting this attempt.
The US Supreme Court has rejected this challenge to these 200,000 voters, but now the Bush administration has ordered or has asked the Attorney General, Mukasey, to get involved. This is reminiscent of the interjection in the 2006 election, when nine federal prosecutors were asked to get involved in alleged voter fraud, which turned out to be nonexistent.

. . ..

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/29/lawsuits_machine_malfunctions_and_missing_absentee

[Arugula Latte]

6. I love how CNN decides to cover this a few days before the election.

We've been screaming about this for, oh, I don't know, years and years now.

[bdamomma]

7. has anything been done about these stupid voting machines.

if this election is blown due to those machines, there will be a revolution, or may be a general strike would be better. I do not want to hear let's move on either.