John, the link you provided caught my eye:

A Pennsylvania court held late today that voters have a right under the commonweath's constitution to reliable and secure voting systems and can challenge the use of electronic voting machines "that provide no way for Electors to know whether their votes will be recognized" through voter verification or independent audit.

The ruling by the Commonweath Court allows the continuation of a suit filed last year by 26 individual Pennsylvania voters against the Secretary of State that challenged the certification of Direct Electronic Voting systems (DREs) used in 56 counties across the state.

(Your Link, emphasis added).

If that is so, then the advocates of DRE's need to take a second look, and the HR 811 legislators need to check out the court's reasoning on this matter.

And speaking of voting the Senate began to correct some of the "intelligence" problems in the regime.

The bill S 392 is not threatened by filibuster now, pursuant to the vote yesterday (94-3) to shut down any potential filibuster. Only three neoCons voted for filibuster: Coburn (R-OK), Grassley (R-IA), and Kyl (R-AZ).

The president has threatened to veto it, so we must watch the floor vote to see if this could be the first veto override in a decade or so.

We really need to take on the San Diego Board of Supervisors. They shown more and more that they look to be controlled by certain entities in who they hire (Mikel Haas, and now Michael Vu), and other actions that they are allowing to take place against the interests of many residents (the "fast tracking" of Blackwater moving in to the Potrero Hills foothills with their huge training facility there), etc.

And it was a questionable fake "Democratic Voters Guide" endorsing Ron Roberts with an otherwise Democratic endorsement slate back in the primaries last year that kept Richard Barrera from contesting him in a mostly Democratic Voter district for even the general election (where he might have won with Mikel Haas's controversial actions growing after that primary which could have focused more attention on this race then if he were still running).

The Repubican Party, through techniques like these has had control over the Board of Supervisors in monopoly form for the last 10 years, and it is actions like these I think that we can expect as long as voters allow this sort of manipulation to continue with scrutiny.

We need to measure out collectively all of their damaging actions so that the community can start realizing that they are a big part of the problem now and do something about it, both in conteseting them now, and in replacing someo of them in the next election to restore some accountability in that body.