{"id":942,"date":"2004-11-12T14:22:15","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T18:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=942"},"modified":"2004-11-12T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T18:22:15","slug":"friday-afternoon-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Friday Afternoon Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a few different things at once for the moment, and thus, posting today has been a bit quieter than usual. Hopefully I&#8217;ll have more information on some organizational efforts I&#8217;m trying to pull together soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To that end, if you happen to be or know Attorneys, Web Design\/Management organizations, Fundraising groups, PR groups and\/or Political\/Activist organizations who are interested (and\/or aggravated) by everything that has been going on concerning the various Voting Irregularities issues, and who may be willing to invest time, resources and\/or energy into the effort for positive change &#8212; and quickly &#8212; please have them <a href=\"mailto:Brad.Friedman@cville.com\">contact me by email right away<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the moment, only seeking folks and\/or organizations with serious credentials in any of the above areas, as opposed to citizen do-gooders who want to help out. If we&#8217;re able to move things forward as I hope, we&#8217;ll much <i>need<\/i> all the citizen do-gooders! But for the moment, I need people or organizations with the above creds who might like to come onboard in building a centralized effort for so much of what is going on. I can discuss further details via Email if you contact me.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here&#8217;s a quick round-up of a few notable items from the last 12 hours or so&#8230;<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/alerts\/04\/11\/ale04090.html\" target=\"_blank\">Via <i>BuzzFlash<\/i>, <\/a>a university professor has published a study showing that &#8220;the odds of those exit poll statistical anomalies occurring by chance are 250,000,000 to one.&#8221;\n<p>In the full 11-page report, which can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/alerts\/04\/11\/The_unexplained_exit_poll_discrepancy_v00k.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">downloaded here in PDF format<\/a>, Dr. Steven F. Freeman of the U. of Penn. speaks of:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;As much as we can say in social science that something is impossible, it is impossible that the discrepancies between predicted and actual vote counts in the three critical battleground states [Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania] of the 2004 election could have been due to chance or random error.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;Systematic fraud or mistabulation is a premature conclusion, but the election&#8217;s unexplained exit poll discrepancies make it an unavoidable hypothesis, one that is the responsibility of the media, academia, polling agencies, and the public to investigate.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>MSNBC&#8217;s <i>Countdown<\/i> continues to be the preeminent voice amongst the Mainstream Media organizations actually giving this story the coverage that it deserves. You can watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2004\/11\/12.html#a736\" target=\"_blank\">Olbermann&#8217;s latest report on video here<\/a> at &#8220;Crooks &#038; Liars&#8221; (where all of this week&#8217;s previous reports are also available if you scroll down).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluelemur.com\/index.php?p=415\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Raw Story<\/i> reports<\/a> that as of this hour, the <a href=\"http:\/\/gp.org\" target=\"_blank\">Green Party<\/a> has received donations totalling $48,000 of the $113,000 they will require by Monday (earliest) to fund their demand, in concert with the Libertarian Party, for a full Ohio recount.<\/li>\n<p>As usual&#8230;more to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE: 11\/15\/04<\/b> Green\/Libertarian Party Ohio Recount fundraising goal has been met! Now seeking funds for &#8220;mobilization&#8221; costs and also volunteers to serve as &#8220;recount witnesses&#8221;! <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00000954.htm\"\">Click here for more info&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a few different things at once for the moment, and thus, posting today has been a bit quieter than usual. Hopefully I&#8217;ll have more information on some organizational efforts I&#8217;m trying to pull together soon&#8230; To that end, if you happen to be or know Attorneys, Web Design\/Management organizations, Fundraising groups, PR [&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":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","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=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}