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Feeney Catches a Break: Appellate Court Limits Allowable Evidence in Federal Investigation
From Washington Post:
A federal appeals court has dealt a blow to the investigation of a former congressman in a ruling that could also limit probes of other lawmakers, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The order, which has not been made public, came during the grand jury investigation of ...
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Help Save 18,000 Marriages in California
Last December, following the passage of Prop 8 in California, Ken Starr (yes, that Ken Starr) filed a legal brief with the CA Supreme Court, on behalf of the so-called "Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund", seeking to nullify the legal marriages of 18,000 same-sex couples in the state.
Arguments will be ...
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'The Ballot Universe': Where We Are as Week 2 Ends at the U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN
To quote myself from coverage earlier this week, in case you hadn't read it all the way to the end: "Had Democrats ever fought as hard for every single vote as Republicans always do in any election that even approximates being close, President Gore or President Kerry would likely have ...
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'Daily Voting News' For February 05, 2009
Today’s news finds articles from Minnesota where the recount trial continues on. Now the justices are trying to decide whether they can allow Franken to take the Senate seat on an interim basis. It looks like there will be no final decision this week or maybe even this month. ...
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$13 Million Settlement for Victims of L.A.'s 2007 'May Day Melee'
It was nearly two years ago that the L.A. Police Department, in full riot regalia, fired rubber bullets and tear gas on an otherwise peaceful May Day immigration rally in MacArthur Park. We covered the stunning "May Day Melee" fairly extensively, as it was breaking here at the time. The ...
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Super Tuesday a Year Ago? Really?
First Read reminds us that Super Tuesday was one year ago today. That's amazing.
Our first thought: it seems like just days ago. Our second thought: it seems like years ago. Third thought: both.
We'll just have to chalk it up to either a paradoxical warp in the Time Space Continuum, or ...
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'Daily Voting News' For February 04, 2009
The long expected auditor’s report on Hillsborough Co Florida is out and, as we suspected, former supervisor of elections Buddy Johnson has some explaining to do. The auditors found that he overspent his budget by close to a million dollars and he misused some funds. Is their an indictment in ...
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Judge Rules Against Saving Ballots from Contested Pima County, AZ, Election
Guest Blogged by David Safier of Blog for Arizona
If a judge’s ruling in Pima County, Arizona, stands, ballots from the long-contested 2006 Regional Transit Authority (RTA) election will be destroyed, and there will never be a definitive answer as to whether or not the election may have been rigged, as ...
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VIDEO: Brad on Our Broken Electoral System on 'The Gregory Mantell Show'...
Not long after last November's general election, I was invited back to appear on The Gregory Mantell Show to discuss issues of Election Integrity. This time it was just myself and Gregory, on everything from touch-screens that don't work to tabulator hacks to Oprah Winfrey's lost Presidential vote. (The video ...
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'Daily Voting News' For February 03, 2009
The recount trial is still ongoing in Minnesota. It’s hard to tell whether there will really be any changes or if this is all just a waste of time and tax money. Time will tell, I guess....
National: EVT/WOTE '09 Call for Papers
2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/
Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE ...
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Filibuster Math: Dems Should Not Seat Gregg's Replacement (Until Franken is Seated First)
Presuming President Obama's nomination of NH's Republican Sen. Judd Gregg as Commerce Secretary will be confirmed by his fellow Senators, and presuming the Democratic Governor of NH keeps his backroom "deal" and appoints a Republican to fill Gregg's vacated seat, then Democrats in the Senate ought to take advantage of ...
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'Can We Get a Do-Over? Or Some Help From the Supremes?': Week 2 Begins at the U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN
Remember back in 2000 when the Republicanists belittled elderly (and minority) voters, claiming that 'if they failed to fill out their ballots correctly, and failed to follow the simple voting rules, then they're idiots and their votes shouldn't be counted'? They made the case over and over again, cynically, of ...
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'Daily Voting News' For February 02, 2009
One of the most successful state election integrity groups has been New Yorkers for Verified Voting. Today their executive director and one of the founders of the group, Bo Lipari, announced that he was giving up his position with NYVV. He is still going to be working on elections issues ...
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LA Times 'Punked': Obama NOT Continuing Bush 'Extraordinary Rendition' Program
From Scott Horton at Harper's...
In a breathless piece of reporting in the Sunday Los Angeles Times, we are told that Barack Obama “left intact” a “controversial counter-terrorism tool” called renditions. Moreover, the Times states, quoting unnamed “current and former U.S. intelligence figures,” Obama may actually be planning to expand the ...
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(Not So) Deep Thought
Wow. What an amazing game.
Though, as an old (St. Louis) Cardinals boy, I would have preferred a different outcome. Oh, well. Will have to take solace in the fact that Obama's team beat McCain's. Again.
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'Daily Voting News' For January 31 and February 01, 2009
Even though the Nov 4 election has been certified by the Riverside Co California RoV since Dec 2, the county is still in the process of doing the state-mandated hand count verifying all ballots cast on touch-screen voting machines. Maybe sometime this week? The court in Minnesota is still ...
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The Man Who Won't Be There Today
Pat Tillman's mother Mary said in 2005, about the Bush Administration's unforgivable cover-up, exploitation of her son's death by "friendly-fire" in Afghanistan before the 2004 Presidential Election...
"Pat had high ideals about the country; that's why he did what he did," Mary Tillman said in her first lengthy interview since her ...
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Republican Lawmakers Still Dominate Cable News, Even in the Age of Obama, Democratic Majorities...
The previous media excuse, during the last administration, for so many more Rs than Ds on television news, was that Republicans were in power of both the White House and Congress. Of course, now that Democrats control both, well, as ThinkProgress detailed last week the more things change...
As Media Matters ...
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Riverside County, CA, Still Counting Votes, in Secret, Months After Registrar Certified Election
We know what the excuse is in MN, but what's the excuse in Riverside County, CA?
Seems there is none, other than County Registrar Barbara Dunmore's hope to ensure the county remains one of the absolute worst places to cast a vote in the entire nation (and there's some stiff competition ...
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'Daily Voting News' For January 30, 2009
The new Hillsborough Co Florida elections boss has saved the county $500,000 by going to Premier/Diebold and making them a deal they could not refuse. Of course with the problems the county had last Nov with uncounted ballots and memory card failures, Diebold should have returned all of the money ...
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