E-voting machines vote their own tickets in NJ, & voters vanish from from e-pollbooks in Virginia county
*/100s of Voters Missing From E-Pollbooks in VA /**Touch-Screens Flip Straight-Ticket Votes in NJ**//*
*Brad Occupies Fake Rightwing Talking Points on the Radio *’Green News’: Huge WH Protests; Weather Records; OK Earthquakes in Heart of Fracking Country
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*/Hundreds of Voters Missing from E-Pollbooks in VA County Forced to Vote on Provisional Ballots /*
Via /The News Leader/ in Virginia…
Electricity problems in Chesterfield County did not keep voting machines from working, but in Henrico County, approximately 954 voters in 19 precincts were not listed in the pollbooks even though they were at the correct polling locations. Officials asked voters to complete provisional ballots.
I called Mark Coakley, General Registrar of Voters in Henrico County to get a few more details about what went wrong there. He said he reads The BRAD BLOG . But, happily, he took my call anyway…
*FULL STORY: *http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8906
*/Touch-Screen Voting Machine Fails in NJ: Straight-Ticket Selection Chooses All the OTHER Candidates /*
/UPDATE: Another machine in separate precinct fails as well, is taken out of service…/
It’s Election Day in America again today in a number of states. Therefore, electronic voting machines are once again failing and, even when they don’t, leaving voters guessing whether their votes were recorded accurately or even at all.
Here’s an early example this morning out of New Jersey, where pretty much the entire state votes on 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting systems. The machine that failed, as detailed below, selected all of the candidates the voter /didn’t/ wish to vote for when he attempted to vote a straight-ticket ballot. The machine is made by a private company named Avante International…
*FULL STORY: *http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8902**
*/Occupying Fake RW Talking Points on the Radio /*
Had a /very/ enjoyable and /very/ lively debate yesterday with the Rightwing co-host of the /Fairness Doctrine Radio /show with Dr. Patrick O’Heffernan (to the Left) and Chuck Morse (on the Right).
I was invited to discuss the Occupy Wall Street movement, and Morse led off the questioning — with a bunch of unsupportable RW talking points, in my opinion — which meant things got very lively from the start…and stayed there…
***AUDIO, FULL STORY: *http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8899**
*/’Green News Report’ – November 8, 2011 /**//*
/With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen…/
*IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT:*Massive protest at the White House against massive pipeline across the country; Oklahoma quakes rattle the heart of fracking country; Record spike in global emissions; 2011 breaks all records for record-breaking weather disasters; /PLUS:/ Massive crack discovered in Antarctic glacier… All that and more in today’s Green News Report!
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***6-MINUTE RADIO REPORT: *http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8903
*/IN CASE YOU MISSED THESE PREVIOUSLY…/**//*
*/EXCLUSIVE: Oakland Police Walk Back Claim That Tear Gas Was ‘Necessary to Protect Officers’ From Occupy Oakland Demonstrators /**//*
/Department declines to offer evidence substantiating Chief’s assertions, downgrades them to ‘preliminary belief’…// /*FULL STORY: *http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8890**//
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