Blogged by Brad from somewhere in Colorado…
Have just been asked to fill in, at the last minute, as Guest Host for Mary Ann Gould on her Voice of the Voters radio program tonight at 8pm ET (5pm PT).
Please join us as I jump in to host her show as heard on the air on WNJC 1360AM in Philadelphia and South New Jersey (Rush Holt country!), and across the world via this online listening link.
We’ll have more details on today’s breaking Holt bill information, the Davis amendment, and other late-breaking voting news.
As we’re doing this at the last minute, without guests or preparation, we’ll be happy to take your calls, questions and thoughts at 856-227-1360. As usual, VoV and BRAD BLOG stalwart John Gideon of VotersUnite.org, a weekly regular on the show, will also be joining us to discuss all the latest!
Please join us, call us, and otherwise consider this an Open thread for use during the show! (Hit the Comments link below, let us know what’s on your mind and then hit REFRESH to keep up with the conversation!)
POST-SHOW UPDATE: Thanks for those who tuned in! Apologies to those who had a bad net stream. Apparently we overloaded their stream. Here then is the archived hour, with all of the day’s Rush Holt news, and guests Bob Fitrakis, Bruce Funk, Paddy Schaeffer and John Gideon.
Brad Guest Hosting Voice of the Voters, 9/5/07 (appx. 1 hour)…
I love it. A Scottish woman and an American man are speaking about fabulous rest rooms on this station right now! How refreshing!
You think that’s amusing, 99, wait until we start our show! Lord only knows what may happen
🙂
Can you explain in detail how Rep. Susan Davis’s amendment to the Holt Bill will impact HR811? Do you think it is an improvement and if so, how can citizens play a part in getting it into the Bill for tomorrow’s vote? I have called Rep. Slaughter’s office and requested it be included.
Will try to hit that on air, Dorsey!
Let’s have some open restricted rules. Sheesh.
This is tuff Brad or Olbermann. Hummm… . . . . . Brad wins!
Languish forever. Good.
Start the heck over.
Emergency ban on all EVMs, and we can get to impeaching, and war ending and saving polar bears.
Tell Jim I love his radio show.
Man, the stream rebuffering thing is getting exciting….
99 – #9 same here
Hey Brad. Bob signing in. Having lots of trouble with the internet stream; not sure if its my connection or just your popularity.
I heard a rumor that you have the text of the Davis amendment. You’ll share, yes? =)
I am intensely interested in these conversations; ergo the streaming is losing its marbles. Never fails. I hope to heck Brad has the audio for us to play later.
Am I wrong to feel like I am pulling up to the local pub when I chime into a thread like this?
Heh. Is it this bad at the local pubs?
I almost wanted to break the link to the stream… see if that wouldn’t help… but… sigh… this is America and I love my fellow citizens…..
No sound here either… bartender, a round for the house!
It is. I live in rural Virginia at the moment. =/
PLEASE let there be a nice uninterrupted audio archive for this!
Or… I could hit my brandy bottle!
The only thing I’m getting out of this audio stream is
… perhaps someone needs to pay the I.S.P. BILL !
Thanks for the drink, Zap.
Hehee that was a pretty rough close to the show. =P
Yikes! Tarbender? Got any aspirin?
Wow! Sorry that was choppy on your end folks. We may have overloaded their stream 🙁
I’m told the archive will be available tomorrow on the VoV website. If I can get it up here sooner I will.
Didn’t get to answer Dorsey’s question as thoroughally as I would have liked. But short answer is that, as bad as the Holt bill is, anything that improves is — should it pass — can only be a positive.
If Davis’ amendment were to be included in the bill, allowing for only one DRE per polling place, I believe the writing would be on the wall for every state and county. If every county had to have a paper ballot system for voters on Election Day, I believe they’d quickly see the silliness of running two different systems at the same time, and would move a lot more quickly to paper.
That’s the upside of the amendment, as I see it. Though even if that amendment were included, there are alot of probs with the bill.
But if it’s gonna pass, at least let it be as good as it can be. That’ my thought anyway.
Thanks for listening in guys! Sorry for the spotty stream, but that part is out of my hands!
Peace!
Jim Straight’s show in the half hour before this was very fun. Coupla intelligent goofs blathering about everything and nothing. Mellow.
Bob – There’s nobody I’d prefer to drink with. Apologies that the stream seems to have gotten overloaded. Hope you will too! Thanks for stopping by our little pub! 🙂
A pub with near beer and ABBA is the permanent house band 😉
WOW !
Every singe progressive radio show / station that I have ever listened to
has been or still are a production ABORTION !
If it isn’t stream drops its levels going all over the place screw-ups galore always . . .
One time they were litterally asleep at the fucking switch
and there was 2 feeds for 2 hours (a clear channel station)
This is an ISSUE that has been on my mind for YEARS.
Needless to say this make progressive radio and progessives look bad and or amateur.
makes 😉
JoJ begins to have production problems when his brain starts heating up. 😛
I think progressives have such shitty productions because we’re so much less capitalistic than conservatives. We don’t maniacally chase the bucks to maniacally fund ideologues to help us continue maniacally chasing bucks like they do.
We need to pull this together somehow.
99 – …ain’t that the truth … scary … how ya know someone ya never met (-;
Here’s the deal, every precinct should have a stack of backup paper ballots along with all the voting machines. Many precincts only have two and with the failure rate and paper jams it’s pretty good odds that one precinct is going to be screwed for who know how long, and there is always a power outage.
Imagine if CA or somewhere had major rolling blackouts!! It would make FL “butterfly ballot” talk a thing of the past. Maybe all EI should turn on all their A/Cs and heaters and halogen lamps on election day.
But anyways, back to paper ballots, in Ohio the SOS went so far as to say provisional ballots must be on paper ballots, not mixed in electronically.
This means that the precincts in Ohio have to provide these anyways. Technically all someone has to do is refuse to show ID. You could have a revolution and all votes would be on paper ballot. That might also send a nice message to the BOEs about precinct op-scan.
Good show.
None
Machines: Absolutely not.
Revolution: Count me in.
Yes… the only time I’ll ever touch any voting machine is to throw it at the wall and pee on it.
Heheheheehe… open thread fun time tim russert . . .
Amazing. Those people were talking sensibly all the way through! What a difference an archive makes. You did pretty darn well for a last-minute, seat-of-the-pants job. Thanks.