Maintenence is wonderful isn't it. It's an industry onto itself. I got to buy me some of the Diebold stock.

Raking those taxpayer dollar in,.. isn't corporatism and the free-market system (with a Fascist bent) a grand system/scheme. See you at the golf course. We can play a leisurely 18 holes. Taxpayers are,.. chumps,.. and suckers,.. to think they used to use paper and pencils to vote,.. at 1/10th the cost. We are going to get filthy rich off this scam. - (Executives at an EVM vendor.)

The Republican Party will retain both houses of Congress but only because of the decrepid Diebolds!

For that kind of moola, they could hire people to come in and hand count paper ballots.
It would still be cheaper if they hand counted at the precinct level anyway and send those totals to the county board, easier to isolate the crooks from the legit counters that way, and fewer votes exposed to fraud.
Wait a minute... wasn't that why our fore fathers set it up that way to begin with ?

Is there anyone at The young Turks who can get that asshole, Mike Stark under control before he totally blows the election for Webb? We don't need this kind of press.I have put too much of my hard earned money into that campaign to have it wasted by some jerk like this:

WEYERS CAVE, Va. - A liberal blogger who was manhandled by supporters of Sen. George Allen this week was handcuffed by authorities and escorted from another rally Saturday after an Allen backer claimed the man pushed him to the ground.

Mike Stark told The Associated Press that sheriff's deputies detained and released him. He was not charged.

"I'll own this town," Stark, a first-year University of Virginia law student, was overheard telling sheriff's deputies as he was led away from the rally at Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport.

Stark said that he was attending the event as a reporter for the Air America Radio network's "The Young Turks" show and that he wanted to ask Allen about his arrest record and why he didn't do more to stop his supporters from wrestling him to the ground at a campaign event on Tuesday.

I read Jo-Joy that the Puke wasn't really pushed down, he took a dive.
IMO, he's just a guy that is tired of the Fascists and wants to do something about it, a little over zealous but...you know, he might have a point, we might all be doing the same thing pretty soon here

I'll bet even money, those people that were blocking him off are of the same stripe as the Brooks Brothers rioters of yore

Florida, Maybe the guy took a dive, maybe Stark has a point, I don't know. I do know that he is screwing Webb by acting this way. It isn't helping Webb's campaign and it's a close race. Stark actin' a fool is helping Allen, not Webb.

I ain’t never been to rural Virginia, and I wonder what it’s like. I jes’ imagine it’s pretty, kinda like the open country we have here in Alaska but not no snow.

It’s sure comfortin’ to traffic in stereotypes, but I won’t have none of it. Like I been saying, I ain’t gonna figure them rustic Virginians to be no backwoods types, like some damn thing outa Deliverance.

I reckon they got plenty technology in Virginia cause they got U.Va. down there, and that there was founded by none other than Thomas Jefferson. I ain’t a betting man, but if I were, I’d bet they got the very latest in voting machinery. Stuff that don’t need no paper cause it’s all done with that ‘lectricity, like that what them Democrats brought to the ole Tennessee Valley.

See, it would take some one a whole lot smarter’n me to figure out how to hack into those machines what’s supposed to count the votes. Up here in Alaska, we didn’t have no Thomas Jefferson, and we sure as shootin’ ain’t never had no University of Virginia.

Hell, when they had an election up here to move the Capital, all the ballots were on good old fashioned paper, just like the pages of a Gideon Bible. Now, them folks down in Juneau sure didn’t want the Capital of Alaska out in Wasilla, ’cause that would be like taking taters out of Idaho, or horses out of Virginny.

Betcha can just imagine that the folks down Juneau way, weren’t even going to let them yahoos up in Wasilla take the Capital away from them. Trouble is, they hadn’t invented them computified counting machines, and even if they had, back then folks in Alaska wouldn’t know what to do with other than to have a good go at the Prinz-Brau.

See, if you wanted to steal an election in them days, you had to do real work. Not some sissified computer hacking where the heaviest thing you have to lift is a smart card, like the one some young stud lifted in Tennesee.

Back then you had to do stuff like open up a fire hydrant with a twenty-pound wrench. Oh boy, when I think of all them Wasilla voters slipping and sliding and blocking intersections, well, it’s a lead-pipe cinch they ain’t about to be voting to move no damn Capital to where they can keep an eye on them elected officials and all.

‘Course here in Alaska it’s cold, so a bunch of open fire hydrants sure goin’ to freeze up, and I guess them fancy pants politico scientists would call that “voter surpressin’."

An like I was sayin, I ain’t never been to Virginny but I don’t figure you could count on ice to keep people from voting. But then again, I don’t know if an open fire hydrant would make a whole lot of mud in the Old Dominion, and I guess that could kinda get the votin’ bogged down, if you know what I mean. Especially in precincts where that George Allen feller is running so strong.

That weren’t all they done in Alaska to keep the Capital from being moved to where you would find the 60 or 70 percent of the Alaskans who live in or nearby to Anchorage. They had to take a big old chain, and drop it on a ‘lectric transmission line. ‘How did they do that?’ you might be asking, and hell, back them a lot of people asked the same question.

Turns out they used a whirly-bird heliocopter, which might could sound like going to a parcel of trouble just to drop a chain on a ‘lectric line. But somebody must have known something, because just about all of Anchorage went dark, and people started thinkin’ a lot less about where the Capital was gonna be, and a whole lot more about how they could keep their pipes from freezin’ up. I shutter to think what woulda happened if we had them modern ’lectric voting machines back then.

Well, that there was in the old days. Now in these modern times, Republicans steal elections just like falling off a log. And there ain’t hardly an old-timer around, who remembers what real work was. Or where to get a twenty-pound wrench. Or a damn whirlybird heliocopter. If you know what I mean.

If’n you do know what I mean, do me one favor. Don’t …

“… tell ’em Big Mitch sent ya!"

Hi, wondering if you could increase the size of the print on your blog a little. Thanks.

From my simple test, I don't think Brad (or his designers) have locked down the text size on this site, so Athana (#10) you should be able to increase the size on your own.

One of those wonderful and Democratic aspects of the Internet. I'm sure it will be gone soon.

Tuesday! Champaign to celebrate our taking the house and the power of the invesitigative suponea or champaign to drown our sorrows and prepare for full-scale corporate fascism and 1984 a few years later than anticipated.

Congenial or confrontational,.. watch the fascist Musgrave and her brown-shirt friends disregard the inquiry from a constituent. The Democratic Party candidate,.. Paccione was far more co-operative,.. civilized and polite.

Why are Republicans so arrogant ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxj6O3B_jEw

Hyper-Contentious,.. the fascist walks away bruised,...

http://www.youtube.com/w...?v=EplxM9LLqhw&eurl=

Athana # 10 clicking on the "print version" at the end of the article will probably make it easier for you to read.

Damn, Big Mitch - I didn't finish your post before I tole 'em Big Mitch sent me, and they kicked my bony ass all around the block. I wish I'da been fat - teach 'em what hard work really is! Good luck with your 'lectric 'lections this time around...

Well, somebody in Alaska probably still remembers how to fix elections. In the 2004 election some districts had over 200% turnout. When the Democrats sued to get the data files, the Republican incumbents fought it and fought it for nearly two years. They said that it contained Diebolt proprietary information, though Diebolt said, "go ahead and release it." Then they said it would reveal Division of Elections passwords, as if they never get changed. Finally, they were obliged by the court to release the information, and lo and behold, the data base had been tampered with, after the law suit had been filed. That's all prelude to this election in which Former Governor Tony Knowles was neck and neck with former beauty queen, and Wasilla mayor Sarah Palin, up to the eve of the election. On election night he lost by over 10% of the vote. Go figure!

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