{"id":3879,"date":"2006-12-05T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T00:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2006-12-06T06:29:24","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T14:29:24","slug":"discredited-mark-f-thor-hearnes-permanent-seat-at-the-discredited-eac-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3879","title":{"rendered":"Discredited Mark F. &#8216;Thor&#8217; Hearne&#8217;s Permanent Seat at the Discredited EAC Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?cat=91\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ac4vr_ThorHearne_ComromisingDemocracy.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Need any more proof that the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) which was formed by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) is <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3677\">hopelessly compromised<\/a> and utterly ineffective beyond repair?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eac.gov\/docs\/Public%20Meeting,%2012-07-06,%20Wash.,%20Revised%20Final%20Agenda.pdf \">agenda [PDF]<\/a> for their Dec. 7th &#8220;Public Meeting.&#8221; On Panel 2 for the &#8220;Assessing the 2006 Election&#8221; is, of course, the wholly discredited, democracy-loathing, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3611\">high-level GOP operative scam artist<\/a> and Bush\/Cheney &#8217;04 national counsel, Mark F. &#8220;Thor&#8221; Hearne. Again.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently he has a bought and paid for permanent seat at the table, next to his St. Louis colleague and partner in Anti-Americanism, the outgoing EAC chair Paul DeGregorio.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll note Hearne no longer even bills himself as being the founder of the phony, self-declared &#8220;non-partisan&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/ACVR\">American Center for Voting Rights<\/a>&#8221; (ACVR) anymore since his GOP front group astroturf organization &#8212; created solely to deflect from <i>real<\/i> <i>Election<\/i> Fraud concerns and push a <i>contrived<\/i> &#8220;epidemic&#8221; of <i>Voter<\/i> Fraud on an unsuspecting public so as to establish disenfranchising Photo ID restrictions at polls across the country &#8212; has been so thoroughly discredited. (<i>You&#8217;re welcome<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<p>As I frequently say, this democracy ain&#8217;t gonna save itself. Particularly with cretins such as &#8220;Thor&#8221; doing all they can to game <i>your<\/i> American democracy for their own contemptible partisan interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need any more proof that the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) which was formed by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) is hopelessly compromised and utterly ineffective beyond repair? Here&#8217;s the agenda [PDF] for their Dec. 7th &#8220;Public Meeting.&#8221; On Panel 2 for the &#8220;Assessing the 2006 Election&#8221; is, of course, the wholly discredited, democracy-loathing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,159,76],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acvr","category-eac","category-election-2006"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}