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ACORN "Epidemic" Overblown: Relax Republicans!

by ThePete 4:09 pm 2008-10-23
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So, we’ve all heard how the ACORN voter registration "scandal" is a practical epidemic according to Republicans, including Senator John McCain who said it could represent a threat to the "very fabric of our democracy."

The catch?

It isn’t.

At all.

Period.

Full stop.

The end.

ACORN allowed their employees to fake registrations for thousands of voter registration forms. The concern, according to Republicans is that people will show up and vote more than once, using these fake names.

Forget that some of the names were as ridiculous as Mickey Mouse–forget that other names were the team members of the Dallas Cowboys–the thing that is important to pay attention to is that people showing up to vote with another name NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENS. The number of cases in the last four years voter fraud has actually been prosecuted is 120.

On October 17, 2008, Michael Crispin Miller, author of LOSER TAKE ALL: ELECTION FRAUD AND THE SUBVERSION OF DEMOCRACY 2000-2008, gave an interview to PBS’ Bill Moyers (transcript here: http://www.pbs.org/…ript4.html ). Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

MARK CRISPIN MILLER: It never happens. Let’s just talk statistically about this, okay? As of 2007 the Department of Justice had prosecuted - are you ready for this? This number? 120 cases of voter fraud.

BILL MOYERS: Over what period?

MARK CRISPIN MILLER: Over, well, this is, like four years. Okay? 120 cases. And there were 82 convictions. Now, I think the republic will probably withstand that attack, right? We’re talking about voter fraud that’s being perpetrated in the tens. And I can tell you, moreover, that not one of those cases of fraud actually involved a person showing up to vote improperly. They were other kinds of fraud. You know, election judges breaking the law and so on.

So, any time someone brings up ACORN or even voter fraud, ask them for names and dates. If they talk about voter suppression, election fraud or voter caging, then we’re talking. There is a lot of evidence of that, according to Miller and, well, me. I’ve been researching election irregularities since 2002 (2000, really). But I’m not credentialed–I’m just a guy with an Internet connection and a blog.

For more from NYU professor Michael Crispin Miller, check out that "Bill Moyers Journal" transcript or check out the interview he gave Amy Goodman on Democracy Now on October 22, 2008–you can watch or listen to the show or read the transcript here: http://www.democracynow.org/…0/22/votes

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by ThePete 4:09 pm 2008-10-23 In TheNews, Politricks, ThePete.Com | Tags , , , , , , , , | $ |

Obama, Race, the Polls Already Suggest an Upset

by ThePete 2:42 am 2008-10-14

utterli-imageSo, I’m just getting back from the Algonquin Salon (an open mic TheWife sings at a lot) tonight and I pull up CNN.com to check for any breaking news. The screencap attached to this post is what I saw. The headline links to an article (here: http://www.cnn.com/…index.html ) that talks about the "Bradley Effect" and the "Wilder Effect."

That’s so stupid–you can’t have two "Effects" for the same result! Silly CNN!

Regardless, my concern is a bit more serious than that. The idea behind this (these) effect(s) is that exit polls found that both Tom Bradley and Douglas Wilder doing better than they did in the actual elections. Bradley lost in his bid for the governorship of California while the polls said he would win and Wilder won but by a hair’s width, not the double-digit lead his exit polls gave him.

Now, to me this kind of thing already sounds familiar. However, the excuse for the exit polls being wrong now is racism–people too embarrassed to admit they are racist lie and say they did vote for the black guy.

Back in 2000 and in 2004 the excuse was that the exit polls were just wrong.

See, in both the 2000 and 2004 elections, the assumption was that Gore would win certain states. John Zogby was on the Daily Show before the election saying John Kerry would win.

We know how both elections turned out.

I’m worried CNN.com has just delivered the excuse for a McCain win.

I’m worried we’ll see exit polls that give Obama a lead, possibly even a healthy one, but that we’ll see McCain miraculously pull ahead in certain "battleground states".

When the question is asked by the press and the public: "Why were the exit polls so off from the election itself?" the answer will be racism.

No one will bother to look at all of the voting irregularities uncovered in the 2000 and 2004 elections. No one will bother to point out the blatant security issues in all electronic ballot machines. No one will bother to point out that very little has been done to fix the system as a whole.

Or worse: plenty of us will bother (as we have in the past) and no one in the media or in the government will bother to listen (as has happened in the past).

I really hope that I am wrong. Not just because I want Obama to win, but because I want the will of the people to be done in this country. Seeing the groundwork of a perfect excuse being laid really scares me.

How perfect is this groundwork?

Ignoring race, this would be the THIRD time in a row the exit polls for a presidential race would be wrong.

The THIRD TIME.

Of course, this time, we would have the excuse of racism and that will be enough to keep those of us with legitimate concerns on the margins.

Lovely. I can’t wait.

Want to learn more about election irregularities? Check out http://StealingAmericaTheMovie.org/ or just check out the clip on exit polls here: http://stealingamericathemovie.org/theft.html

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by ThePete 2:42 am 2008-10-14 In TheNews, Politricks, ThePete.Com | Tags , , , , , , , , , | $ |

"Stealing America" a New Docu I Helped With

by ThePete 8:56 pm 2008-07-29
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The short version: A documentary I contributed news footage to (a documentary by Oscar nominated documentarian, Dorothy Fadiman) will be screening in movie theaters starting August 1, 2008. It’s a movie about election irregularities in all major elections since 2000, but it mostly focuses on the big elections. I feel strongly that this is an important movie and it needs to be seen by as many people as possible. Please check out StealingAmericaTheMovie.Org (here:
http://stealingamericathemovie.org/ ) to see if the movie is playing in your area.

If it is, please go see it! Most of the footage from Daily Show, MSNBC and some of the clips from CNN I supplied.

If not, please check back to that site periodically to see when the DVD will be available. Or just watch this space as I’ll be sure to make a big deal about it when it does come out on home video. :)

The long version: A couple years back I was contacted by Oscar nominated documentarian, Dorothy Fadiman (http://www.imdb.com/…nm0264936/ ), regarding any news footage I may have recorded during the election mess from 2000 and 2004. I believe in documenting big events by recording news coverage, so I happened to have a nice little library from 2004 and a few clips from 2000, which I sent out to her as she needed them over the following years.

Finally, she’s finished it up and it will be screening at certain theaters across the country before it is made available on DVD.

Our election system is broken and this film shows you how. Please support this movie. Thanks!!

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by ThePete 8:56 pm 2008-07-29 In TheNews, Politricks, TV.ThePete.Com | Tags , , , , | $ |

12,000 LA Indy Voters Get Disenfranchised

by ThePete 3:44 pm 2008-03-04

Well, thankfully, it looks like things are (so far) going not-to-suckily in the four states holding their primaries today. Sadly, it may be days or weeks before we become aware of anything wrong. Likewise, here in LA county we’ve only now discovered that 12,000 independent voters who failed to indicate which party we were going to vote for *on top* of which candidate, will not have their votes counted.

The above screencap comes from a post from today at BradBlog.com (here: http://www.bradblog.com/ ) that reports:

As we wait for the next round of thousands of disenfranchised voters to emerge from OH, TX, VT, RI or beyond, Los Angeles County has finally finished counting its infamously disastrous "Double Bubble" ballots from the Feb. 5th Super Tuesday Primary in California.

The final numbers, in just in time to meet today’s local certification deadline, are supposed to hearten us because the county Registrar’s office chose to only not count some 12,000 valid, legally cast votes in the state’s open Democratic Primary.

See, the ballot was designed so that certain circles were reused for different parties’ candidates. So, in my case, I checked off the circle for Obama, right? If I were to pull that ballot out and slide it into the American Independent ballot "machine" I’d see it already filled in for one of their guys.

(I don’t vote for American Independent party candidates because I’m independent, not American Independent.)

ANYway, so in order for ballot machines to tell the difference between a vote for Obama in the Democrats and a vote for Mr. Nochanceofwinning in the AI party, the machines must check to see which circle I filled in for which party I voted for. Only then does it know whether circle #8 filled in means Mr. Obama or Mr. Icecubeschance.

Yep, for some reason the ballot, with all those damn circles on it (there were easily more than fifty or sixty and too many to really estimate beyond that), they just HAD to make candidates share circles on independent voter ballots.

This is clearly a case of intentionally treating indy voters as 2nd class citizens. If it wasn’t 100% intentional, it was 100% incompetence, then.

Either way, I have no way of knowing if my vote was counted. I could very well be one of those 12,000 people. So, in a sense, there are a lot more than 12,000 of us who have been alienated from the system because not a single indy voter who *may* have missed that first circle can know for sure if their vote was counted.

If you missed it, you can see just why it was so easy to miss that first ballot in a video of me not filling in the circle where I should have here:

http://tv.thepete.com/…feels-like

What’s worse is that vote tallies are all over the place, according to the BradBlog post:

Unfortunately, unlike all the other results from L.A. County , the "supplemental" tallies are posted only by Congressional District, not by precinct, so the specific numbers of ballots which were thrown away wholesale, are impossible to see.

Where the final "supplemental" totals (Clinton 51%, Obama 42%) are reportedly in line-ish with all of the previously reported results for the entire county (Clinton 55%, Obama 41%), various Congressional District results from the "supplemental count" are way of proportion from that.

For example, while some of the CD results are in line with the overall totals, most are proportionally out of whack. Here’s just a few to give you an idea…

29th CD: Clinton 59%, Obama 24%
31th CD: Clinton 68%, Obama 26%
34th CD: Clinton 61%, Obama 31%
35th CD: Clinton 27%, Obama 67%
36th CD: Clinton 62%, Obama 31%

Of course, there could be perfectly legitimate reason for such imbalanced numbers, in an otherwise close over-all election. The more likely reason, however, for the imbalance is that Logan chose to simply toss out votes for any candidate listed on the #8 to #10 bubbles in most precincts (if there were any Non-Partisan voters who chose to vote in the American Independent Primary in that precinct, since that party was assigned the same bubbles for their own candidates), while choosing to count the votes for any Democratic candidate who happened to have the good luck of being assigned the #11 to #15 bubble on the ballot.

So, even the numbers representing the ballots that were counted seem to be inconsistent. Lovely system we’ve got here.

I’m glad I’m moving. Of course, New York has had it’s problems too (http://www.bradblog.com/ ).
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by ThePete 3:44 pm 2008-03-04 In TheNews, Politricks, ThePete.Com | Tags , , , , , | $ |

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