‘Daily Voting News’ For December 21, 2006

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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

The power of the headline is amazing. What may be a fair and balanced article can be changed to be partisan and biased with the turn of the word in the headline. This is especially apparent when it is an Associated Press article that has been run across the country under the banner, “Congress asked to intervene in Fla. Race”. That is until the biased North County Times, based in northern San Diego and Riverside Counties, gets the story. They deftly change the recommended headline to reflect their bias to, “State-declared loser in race to replace Rep. Katherine Harris asks Congress to investigate” and the same story reads differently. / A hand recount of over 264,000 ballots took 10 days in Vermont and overturned the original results in the race for state auditor. They had paper ballots to recount and not vapor-ware from the machines. / A state Representative in Pennsylvania is planning on asking Congress to allow the state to get rid of their electronic voting machines so they can return to lever-machines. He says, rightly, that electronic voting machines have been too problematic….

  • NAtional: Paper jams hamper electronic voting LINK
  • AL: Marshall County – County gets its money LINK
  • AL: Marshall County – Marshall to seek interest on repayment
    County reimbursed for its electronic voting machines LINK
  • CA: Nevada County group studies voting options LINK
  • FL: Editorial – Question for Florida
    Are 18,000 votes missing in Sarasota? LINK
  • FL: Two Florida Candidates File Election Contests in the U.S. House LINK
  • FL: FL-13 – Jennings Officially Contests Race in Florida’s 13th District LINK
  • FL: FL-13 – Florida candidate disputes election results LINK
  • FL: FL-13 – Congress Asked To Probe Fla. House Race LINK
  • FL: FL-13 – Jennings’ fight ropes in House
    Early edition: If Florida fails her, she wants Congress to intervene. LINK
  • FL: FL-13 – Congress asked to intervene in Fla. race LINK
  • FL: FL-13 – Jennings seeks House’s help LINK
  • FL: FL-13 – Disputed Sarasota race is appealed to Congress LINK
  • FL: Sarasota County – Sarasota voters likely confused, expert says LINK
  • FL: Sarasota County – Professor: Ballot confused voters LINK
  • FL: Sarasota County – Judge to decide if voting code is trade secret LINK
  • FL: Sarasota County – Computer code at heart of congressional election dispute LINK
  • FL: Sarasota County – Final phase begins in state audit of election LINK
  • KS: Sedgwick County – Landwehr still winner after recount LINK
  • NJ: Morris County – Calvanelli to take seat still disputed LINK
  • PA: State Official Wants To Eliminate Electronic Voting Machines LINK
  • PA: Northampton County – Voting machine headaches in Northampton County
    Registrar foresees manual tabulation during 2007 primary as electronic machine complaints continue. LINK
  • VT: Judge rules on recount: Salmon unseats Brock LINK
  • **”Daily Voting News” is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in “Daily Voting News” may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or BradBlog.Com**

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    1. 1)
      Carol said on 12/21/2006 @ 10:58pm PT: [Permalink]

      Hey, San Diego North County Times, what’s the matter? You worried Bilbray might have to go, too?

    2. 2)
      Floridiot said on 12/21/2006 @ 11:04pm PT: [Permalink]

      Heh heh, he said “vaporware” (yeah I watched Beavis and Butthead with my Boys, I admit it)

    3. 3)
      Larry Bergan said on 12/22/2006 @ 1:57am PT: [Permalink]

      I miss Beavis and Butthead.

      Can you be named a “state declared loser” if you’ve never ran for office.

      I thought they declared winners in elections!

    4. 4)
      plunger said on 12/22/2006 @ 5:12am PT: [Permalink]

      .

      US CONCENTRATION CAMPS – IN WYOMING!

      FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE MEXICANS, BUT I WAS NOT MEXICAN, SO I DID NOT SPEAK OUT.

      NEXT THEY CAME FOR THE DRAFT DODGERS, BUT I WAS TOO OLD TO BE DRAFTED, SO I DID NOT SPEAK OUT.

      THEN THEY CAME FOR ME.

      If the linked photos and maps are accurate, odds are these dude ranch owners are within 20 miles of it…and they’ll know the deal if so.

      People who herd cattle for a living know everything about all the land around them. Trust the old timers.

      Silke Simon Bucking S Ranch Hanna, WY 82327

      google it.

      The location shown below (north facility) resides in a north/south
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      View the area adjacent to the Pathfinder Reservior and the Seminoe
      Reservoir IN CENTRAL WYOMING SOUTH OF CASPER on Google Earth / Google Maps relative to the larger Wyoming map found here:

      http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-b.../1607403/posts

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    5. 5)
      allie said on 12/22/2006 @ 7:56am PT: [Permalink]

      HeyBrad! Thanks for this example of media fraud! This country has been taken over by propagandists who spin things to try to poison the minds of the people. Thank goodness we have the internet which provides timely news in an unvarnished, factual way. After all, there is only one “Truth” – the rest is pure fiction and I’d prefer to get my fiction from a good book instead!

      Increasingly, the media whores are getting the slapdown from the people for their complicity in spinning pure propaganda of this twisted regime. No one I know even turns on the television unless it’s to watch their favorite program or a good movie. The corporate mainstream media is quickly being eclipsed by the internet and soon they will become totally “irrelevant” to the american people.

      They’ve had their choice to provide the “real news” or “fake news” – people have become enlightened to their tricks and will put them all out of business.

      The people hold the power to bring Truth to light – these corporate mainstream news programs are dealing in total “darkness” and the only thing which really exists is “light” – as we all know: Darkness is merely the absence of “light”! Bye, bye, mainstream media as we’ve known it (newspapers and television). It’s been real!

    6. 7)
      women on the verge said on 12/22/2006 @ 6:04pm PT: [Permalink]

      The “Kick Back and Relax” (KBR) built camps have been in mainstream news for awhile… if you bother to look. The problem is that we’re all too busy watching American Idol to pay attention. Dyn Corp makes KBR and Halliburton look like choir boys. And just for the record, Beavis and Butthead would be a definite step up from what we’ve got now.

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