Like brother like brother. Even San Diego County Registrar of Voters Mikel Haas’s brother apparently believes it just fine to cheat at the polls.
Online polls in any case.
The BRAD BLOG has learned that Don Haas, the brother of SD County’s Registrar, (one of the country’s worst, by the way) has apparently been gaming a recent online poll hosted at the website of conservative San Diego radio talkshow host Roger Hedgecock. The right-wing talker has joined the chair of the Democratic County Chair in calling for Mikel Haas’s resignation due to his abominable administration of county elections.
A quick investigation by The BRAD BLOG this morning reveals the poll used at the Hedgecock site can easily be gamed by simply deleting “cookies” on users’ computers, allowing them to vote as many times as they wish. Don Haas encouraged readers in a posting yesterday at his website to “act like a democrats and vote three times.”
As well, brother Don has been posting anonymously here at The BRAD BLOG with the user name “OMSmedia” since November 9th. In a comment this morning, in reply to Democratic U.S. House candidate Francine Busby’s concession in the CA-50 race last night, Don describes her as a “loser” and continues by adding “love it when you uninformed nutroots lose.”
He has his own website at OMSMedia.com which has a “Hardcore Conservative” graphic logo on the home page. In various postings in the “Live Journal” on the site, Don supports his brother’s use of hackable Diebold voting machines, spreads disinformation about them, refers to Democrats as “asses,” suggests all “gay representatives” are “pedophiles,” and writes that “any [Senatorial] candidate yelling about the President should just resign”….
In a thread posted on his site with the subject line “OMSMEDIA Voter Guide 2006,” Don supports his brother’s illegal (mis)use of Diebold voting machines in San Diego, though he is barely able to help himself from announcing his relationship to the RoV in San Diego. In reply to a question at the site about the hack of a Diebold system as seen in the HBO documentary Hacking Democracy, Don misleads readers by posting “The memcard issue here [in San Diego] is also different but I’ll tell you that in person (if you wanna know)….but I have to retain the ‘culture of secrecy’ here online.”
“I did enjoy watching the lady cry when she realized Bush may have won beacuse [sic] of this….he he,” writes Don in regard to the on-camera reaction from Florida Election Integrity advocate Susan Pynchon’s emotional response to eye-witnessing the hack of a Diebold optical-scan system near the end of the film. The hack flipped an election without leaving a trace behind.
Don then goes about explaining (incorrectly) that the machines used in California are not susceptible to the manipulation seen in the film.
The movie only tapped Cali during the software certification lawsuit…and thats [sic] because they were looking for anything related to lawsuits….not about its hackabilty ….we don’t use those optical scanners in the movie.
Of course, until the most recent election — for example, during last June’s contested U.S. House Special Election overseen by Mikel Haas in California’s 50th Congressional district — San Diego did use the same Diebold optical-scan system seen in the film at all polling places. Now San Diego only uses their op-scan system for scanning absentee, provisional, and optional paper ballots. Moreover, the vulnerability discovered in the hack revealed during the HBO documentary was found by a team of scientists — convened by the California Secretary of State earlier this year — to also apply to the same Diebold touch-screen systems now used across San Diego County by Don’s irresponsible, democracy-loathing brother Mikel.
Don, however, seems to have a difficult time keeping mum online about his relationship to Mikel, even in his post calling for people to “vote three times” in Hedgecock’s poll asking if Mikel should resign. The online poll took a big “mysterious” midday turn yesterday, from an overwhelming “YES” vote in favor of Haas’s resignation to a sudden and overwhelming “NO” vote shortly before Don’s post instructing readers they could vote as many times as they wished.
Even here at The BRAD BLOG, Don seems unable to help himself from bragging about his relationship to brother Mikel, although he doesn’t come out and admit it in full.
In a comment he posted here two days after the recent election, Don as “OMSMedia” writes, “I met the RoV”¦.he has the most integrity of anyone I have ever met in the entire county.”
While he doesn’t mention that “meeting the RoV” also included growing up with him his entire life, Don wrote in the same post in reply to a commenter suggesting he was working for the beleaguered voting machine company: “not a Diebold…but my family did work the polls down there”¦.and one of them runs the show”¦whoops i gave away too much.”
Hedgecock, who is also frequent fill-in host for Rush Limbaugh, recently posted his online poll to ask listeners in San Diego if they agreed with him and felt that RoV Haas ought to resign given repeated failures in his administration of elections in the county, including his disastrous adminstration of the November 7th election. During that recent election legally registered SD County voters were turned away from the polls without being able to cast a vote when Diebold voting machines failed and not enough paper ballots were available in some places, as of 9am in the morning (among other horrendous administrative failures by Don’s brother the RoV.)
Such failures led the local Democratic Party Chair, Jess Durfee, to call for Haas’ resignation. We’re told by Hedgecock’s producer that even the local Republican party chair agreed with Durfee during their broadcast yesterday that a full investigation and report examining the administration of that election should be commissioned by the San Diego County Board of Commissioners.
With “YES” votes outnumbering “NO” votes concerning Haas’s resignation on Hedgecock’s poll by nearly two to one yesterday afternoon, suddenly hundreds of “NO” votes began pouring in from somewhere.
The BRAD BLOG has learned that apparently brother Don discovered how to manipulate the online poll and succeeded in voting repeatedly to save his brother in the eyes of public opinion. On his website, Don posted the following last night at 8:00pm:
Due to the recent unfounded reports from BradBlog.com and blackboxvoting.com….and the campaign of three time loser Busby (who is still suing and refusing to concede in District 50)”¦a ground swell has started against the San Diego Registrar of Voters: Mikel Haas (North Torrance High Alumni 76)
While the poll has no real weight….the incoming democrat elected to the Secretary of State post….would be the kind of person to act on it.
Thus I ask a favor…….Please log into: http://www.rogerhedgecock.com
Find the poll about the registrar And Vote no. (he should not resign)
And for once you can all act like a democrats and vote three times…..
Thanks
-Don Haas
The far-right Hedgecock has proven nonetheless to be an advocate of clean elections and an opponent of RoV Haas’s woeful administration of elections in San Diego County. During our appearance on his local radio show last June — after the disputed U.S. House Special Election in California’s 50th district, in which Haas sent hackable Diebold voting machines home for days and weeks prior to the election on so-called “sleepovers” with poll workers in violation of both state and federal laws — Hedgecock concluded the interview by saying:
Politics may make strange bedfellows. But the corruption of San Diego County’s Registrar of Voters seems to be a concern across all political stripes. At least the Brothers Haas are looking out for each other…if not the best interest of the voters — of all political stripes — in San Diego.
I notice, that Mikel has the “used car salesman” look, and Don has the “white trash” look…
Don, please reverse your stance, and urge your brother to resign.
who cares how they fix the vote if it really doesn’t count for shit. It’s when reality rears it’s ugle head in San Diego and these crooked fcks openly game a real election that ALL AMERICANS PAY THE PRICE.
Can this bastard be brought to trial in front of a “real” judge not a Bush appointed robot???
People of San Diego County vs. the dishonorable douchebag Mike Haas
Why am I not surprised… After all, Darrell Issa (another rep here in this area) perhaps has his character also reflected in that his brother is a known and convicted car thief, who’d been caught in “strange” circumstances with Darrel on at least a couple of occasions with a stolen car. And of course Darrell Issa is in the top 5 of congress critters in terms of wealth with his Viper auto alarm system! Go figure! Like brother, like brother here in San Diego!
As the machine expands, in spite of the obvious, a passing comment was heard..
The sand….
seems warm at first..
Why is it that the people who shill for these machines and their apologists are always self-discrediting? This shit practically writes itself!
People are going to this guys website, voting, deleting cookies, and voting over, and over. You’ve got to be kidding me?
This is sad!
I mean, this is very sad!
I told you Big Brother is a republican 🙂
Big Brother, read this then do the same.
Ya get the feeling that these two brothers, when they grew up, didn’t have the kind of parents to instill a sense of right and wrong in them. And look how they turned out. You can take comfort that you do not see the world as they do.
They have my pity.
– Tom
So THE ONLY way Mikel Haas can get people to vote that he should keep his job is by his brother gaming the poll.
And his brother thought a poll on a conservative website was important enough to ask people to make the effort to delete cookies and vote over and over.
Bless his lil pitiful heart.
And there are people who actually don’t have anything better to do with their time, so they sat at their keyboards and voted and deleted, voted and deleted, over and over.
How sad.
Is Mikel Haas’s job appointed, or elected? He obviously doesn’t have a lot of people who think he’s competent, outside of his family. Could that be how he got his job in the first place?
KESTREL – Haas is appointed. He could (and should) be fired immediately.
He He …great pic. That was 3 days into my wedding anniversary in Big Bear. You couldn’t find a pic with me and Mike in it”¦I’m sure there is one on the site somewhere. White Trash…ouch”¦.I guess I could fit that mold in the right circumstances Anywho”¦ anybody who reads my stuff..(and if you look at my forum totals)…knows its just for locals and for fun. My posts here were just trying to give you the side you may not have heard…the truth.
You have people calling him Unethical…worst Election official in the US…but yet none of you know him or quote any interviews from the last 20 years.
Also…he is a registrar”¦he has no political affiliation… Just because I am a small government supporter and liberal basher does not mean Mikel reads or condones what I say…..so basically….I was defending the man I know”¦the brother I know”¦.the facts I know.
Overall I attack people that obstruct my family or me…the lawyer that stopped the Petco park construction (My family are Padre Fans…Busby for not letting the counting continue to it’s logical conclusion…etc etc.) But I am honored that I seemed worthy enough to trace down and grace your a blog with a headline.
And the busby line “Busby=loser” that was to get your goat”¦”¦.guess it worked.
An invitation:
Instead of using hearsay or information from someone with an agenda”¦.I offer something unique”¦.The Answers”¦.The Truth.
No Bias Editing”¦No Jokes”¦No B.S.
A chat with Mikel Haas.
I haven’t talked to him yet to approve this “¦but he is going to have to stay away from me a lot this Thanksgiving and Christmas to avoid it. Also all the recounts have to be over before he can talk”¦so don’t hold your breathe expecting these to be done December 1.
Here is what I want:
Questions”¦.What do want to know?.
Rules: No Stupid Questions (they will be listed in the post with the word STUPID next to them”¦so you can judge for yourself)
No Loaded questions: Like….Are you an ass or just stupid? (come on)
Try to keep it to three per person and somewhat single answer.
That’s it”¦post them here”¦at OMSMEDIA.COM or email to dh@omsmedia.com and he will see them.
I will of course post the original unedited version on my site”¦..but will give it to brad blog as well.
OMSmedia:
Basically, we don’t give a hoot about you, your brother, or your media website. We just want to know our votes are being counted. Can you talk to your brother about that, BEFORE someone is sworn in?
Thanks!
Ah, it’s right there in the message thread you started:
http://omsmedia.com/OMSforum/vi...ad.php?tid=718
Don’t you pay attention to what you write?
– Tom
I told them they COULD vote three times (the site hedgecock site allows it)…I didnt tell them HOW to hack it for more votes…thats all Bradblog.
(thats what i meant…sorry for the misunderstanding)
OMSmedia #15
Did you mean to say?
We caught you with your hand in the jar cookieman! Your only option is to do an “I Have Sinned” speech like Swaggert, or send someone to do it for you like Haggart!
Mikel Haas was appointed by the local Board of Supervisors here, which coincidentally… Serprize, Serprize, has been completely Republican for the last decade.
The Dems had a shot in the June primary here to get a Dem on the board with Richard Barrera, in a district that is mostly registered Dems, but that race itself also looked suspicious to me. He was up against Ron Roberts, who ran for mayor in that infamous Donna Frye write-in election, and therefore he had a lot of name recognition already that Barrera didn’t. But then what fueled the fire were some widely distributed “Democratic Voter Guides” that listed all of the Dem candidates as recommendations EXCEPT endorsing Ron Roberts over Barrera. Too bad that Ron Roberts got a majority in that race with that finagling that prevented the runoff in June. I think Barrera could have made a pretty good issue out of Roberts and the rest of the Supervisor’s lack of having put in place a decent Registrar of Voters with someone like Mikel Haas running the shots and could have won in November. With some Democrat like Barrera on the Board, perhaps that would be the first step towards cleaning up this county’s election messes.
Don Haas (writing as “OMSmedia”) said:
Ya sure about that, Don? You might want to read this story in which your brother is quoted confirming to me DURING MY INTERVIEW WITH HIM that his own voting machine “sleepovers” (in violation of state and federal law, btw) are not secure in San Diego.
As usual, your fact checking an analysis is dead on. While your going back and review old posts, might I point out these quotes, which you wrote, on your own website:
On resignations (after Katrina):
And later on same:
You may want to share that info with your brother when you next chat.
Back to your comment above. You said:
That’s funny. Overall I attack people that obstruct democracy or my country. As your brother seems dead set on doing for some odd reason.
In response that, all I can assume is your making a comment as assinine as much of the apalling, hypocritical and racist bullshit you post on your own website, given that I have no frickin’ clue what you’re talking about.
But I do know that you brother should receive a felony conviction for not letting thousands of legally registered voters in San Diego excercise their constitutionally protected right to cast a vote.
Neato, Don. You’re a great American.
My first and hopefully last poem!
Cry for the sad man,
and the sad man’s family,
for though they have money,
there can be no reward.
No rehab exists,
for the sad man’s family.
Nor showers to cleanse,
the fraud from their hands.
Cry, human beings, cry tears of healing,
for the sad man.
And give back our fucking goat, you jerk!
Brad # 18
Yeah, brother…..way to go….sock it to him..!!!
I’m curious as to how these people can sleep at night. Obviously, their conscience doesn’t bother them, but what troubles me more, is that they have the cajones to claim that they are Americans..!!!
Unbelievable……un-fu**ing believable.. !
TRAITORS !!
They should be hung by the neck until they are dead.
Ditto for Bush and his henchmen.