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The dems can't win on the issues - so they're just going to cheat. Why am I not surprised...
nevada voting machines automatically checking harry reid's name; voting machine technicians are seiu members
by: mark hemingway
commentary staff writer
10/26/10 6:12 pm edt
clark county is where three quarters of nevada's residents and live and where senate majority leader harry reid's son rory is a county commissioner. Rory is also a democratic candidate for governor.
Since early voting started, there have been credible reports that voting machines in clark county, nevada are automatically checking harry reid's name on the ballot:
voter joyce ferrara said when they went to vote for republican sharron angle, her democratic opponent, sen. Harry reid's name was already checked.now there's absolutely no independently verified evidence of chicanery with the voting machines (yet), but it is worth noting that the voting machine technicians in clark county are members of the service employees international union. The seiu spent $63 million in elections in 2008 and is planning on spending $44 million more this election cycle -- nearly all of that on democrats. White house political director patrick gaspard is formerly the seiu's top lobbyist, and former seiu president andy stern was the most frequent visitor to the white house last year.
Ferrara said she wasn't alone in her voting experience. She said her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen.
"something's not right," ferrara said. "one person that's a fluke. Two, that's strange. But several within a five minute period of time -- that's wrong."
clark county registrar of voters larry lomax said there is no voter fraud, although the issues do come up because the touch-screens are sensitive. For that reason, a person may not want to have their fingers linger too long on the screen after they make a selection at any time.
Just in nevada, the seiu has given a lot to groups that are heavily vested in the state -- in just one prominent example, the seiu gave $500,000 to the patriot majority pac, which has spent $1.3 million against reid's opponent sharron angle. They've and have dropped large sums directly on candidates:
Nv-3
joe heck (r)
oppose
$140,000.00
nv-3
dina us (d)
support
$344,984.00
nv-senate
sharron e. Angle (r)
oppose
$225,000.00
now the county voting technicians aren't unique here -- many of clark county's employees are also represented by the seiu. But it is worth mentioning, the seiu is hyperpoliticized and has seen its fair share of corruption. (it certainly seems more questionable than diebold, the voting machine manufacturer with republican ties that was at the center of many conspiracy theories on the left during the bush administration.)
unions increasingly have a major financial stake in election outcomes, both as a matter of their own election expenditures, and as a function of what they stand to gain if their legislative agenda is enacted. Should they really be responsible for tabulating the votes? That's certainly something voters ought to think long and hard about.
Below is clark county's seiu contract -- on page 75, in appendix a, voting machine technicians are listed as positions represented by seiu
read more at the washington examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op...#ixzz13zmnyxda
The dems can't win on the issues - so they're just going to cheat. Why am I not surprised...
Can't they both just die?
The tea baggers and Repugs are organizing their thugs and hoods to intimidate blacks and browns.
The Repugs can't win on the issues, nor on their silly "pledge". When they win, it will be because corps bought the win, outspending Dems 7 to 1.
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You Can't Handle The Truth
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you automatically assume dems are cheating.now there's absolutely no independently verified evidence of chicanery with the voting machines
Not much of a surprise.
If the report is true, I would call it a safe assumption.
Wild Cobra-What I see today is that most blacks are racists, and almost no whites are.
There is no proof of widespread voter registration fraud, nor voter fraud. It's VRWC narrative lie. dubya State AG's couldn't find any for yar after being told it was their priority do find them.
There is proof of the Repugs stealing the OH presidential vote in 2004.
Now conservatives are against paperless voting.....
There is proof that voting machines are susceptible to manipulation by ANYBODY WITH $$ ENOUGH TO HIRE IT PEOPLE WITH KNOW-HOW. You really think Democrats will sit by and let Repubs be the only player in this game?
WE NEED VOTING MACHINES VOTED THE OUT OF OUR ELECTIONS.
http://www.news8austin.com/?ArID=274630
You guys are too predictable. Voter fraud becomes a partisan issue? Take a look at yourselves...anyone who thinks this is totally brainwashed...
So your party is the only one with morals, who stands on the side of right? Ive got news for you: Both parties are bought and paid for.
"Offers a raw, inside glimpse of the phone scandal as it unraveled and of a ruthless world in which political operatives seek to win at all costs." -- McClatchy News Service
Very tame stuff compared to the that Rove pulled off.
I don't believe there is large scale voter fraud being committed by either party. Its far easier to manipulate them in legal ways.
Ocam's razor agrees.
I dont argue large-scale...I argue that it is done small scale in every election period. It does not hit every race, but there is no election period that doesnt exhibit signs of tampering with these machines. There is no reason to permit paperless voting mechanisms when they leave us susceptible to voter fraud ON ANY SCALE.
There is too much money at stake in our govt to leave these decisions up to voters. Our govt is much too valuable, which is the best case for downsizing it. Cut off the bloodflow and the ticks will fall away. Govt is simply not the place to pin your hopes and dreams for a better world.
We have elected the most populist president in recent memory, and our govt continues to operate behind a viel of secrecy, continues to leave us vulnerable to the whims of corporations, continues to leave our troops abroad fighting pointless wars. The Hope and Change turned into more of the same.
What else do you need to know to discern that our govt is co-opted and commandeered?
Did you find Obama's 'real' birth certificate yet?
If you read about Rove's influence in '04, and Michael Connell, RIP, you realize that those that would manipulate elections wont do it on a grand scale, for fear of being caught. It is a practice limited to only the most critical elections.
More on M.C.:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/...n4684431.shtml
Has his grandmother in Kenya ever retracted being at his birth in Kenya?
If the report that the machine was purposely rigged turns out to be proven true, then it's no longer an assumption.
Yes, but I mean the individual accounts that the box is already checked for "Reid." As believable as that is, I still don't trust people I don't know. They could be lying.
I was responding to crookshanks who is automatically assuming they are cheating.
you concurred that it is a safe assumption that they are.
well done.
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