Harris tells Alex Jones Show she has acquired software for big three companies, stories of mass voter intimidation, arrests, machine meltdowns proliferate

Vote fraud crusader and rights activist Bev Harris has told the nationally syndicated Alex Jones Show that she is in possession of voting software used by the big three voting systems companies and is now in a position to completely expose the true scale of electronic vote fraud, as a cascade of stories about voter intimidation, arrests and machine meltdowns arrived on election day.

“They aren’t even being sneaky about it now,” said Harris in summarizing the widespread voting machine failures and election fraud that unfolded throughout the day, referring to policies whereby voting precincts have imposed complete blackouts on any indication of their results until the official confirmation from headquarters is given. (more…)

Fox News, NBC News and CNN (live on air) all project that Democrats will take control of the House, making Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) the first woman ever to be Speaker of the House.”Democrats shifted the balance of power on Capitol Hill Tuesday night, capturing control of the U.S. House of Representatives and gaining ground in the Senate,” declared the conservative Fox News channel — the first network to call the presidency for Bush in 2000. Fox was behind CNN and NBC in calling the House for Democrats. (more…)

As FireDogLake has been reporting, right-wing radio host Laura Ingraham today urged her listeners to obstruct efforts to protect voting rights by jamming a free voter protection hotline.After playing a recording of DNC Chairman Howard Dean promoting the line to voters, Ingraham suggested her listeners call en masse:

INGRAHAM: Tell me if you think I’m crazy. This is what I’m thinking. I think we all need to call 1 888 DEM VOTE all at the same time.

The DNC has released audio recordings of some of the prank calls to the hotline. Listen to one call here.

Speaking of dumb, does Ingraham know she just committed a felony on the radio by urging her listeners to obstruct efforts to protect voting rights by jamming a free voter protection hotline?

Source: Think Progress

Two-by-two, polling specialists from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press will go into rooms in New York and Washington shortly before noon Tuesday. Their cellphones and BlackBerrys will be confiscated; proctors will monitor the doors; and for the next five hours, these experts will pore over exit-poll data from across the country.

If all goes well, only when they emerge from their cloisters will the legions of ravenous political bloggers have any chance of getting their hands on the earliest indication of which party will end up controlling Congress.

The major networks don’t want a repeat of that embarassing situation in the 2004 election when exit-polls were almost the exact opposite of the election results. They’re going to keep those exit-poll numbers quiet until they know what the election results are going to be so they can fudge the numbers to ensure they match this time. Heaven forbid those pesky bloggers do the media’s job (again) and uncover widespread elections fraud. (more…)

Scarborough just asked Pat Buchanan and Bob Shrum why the Republicans are against paper trails on the voting machine. That turned the conversation into a trial of the electronic voting machines, and all three agreed that they were bad.

So why are Republicans against the paper trail? I think we all know the answer to that one, but to put it in a more GOP friendly tone for Joe - they are against accountability. That has been highly evident with not only voting machines, but also in the way they govern.

Source: Crooks & Liars

A court has decided Saddam Hussein’s fate. Now American voters have to decide what to do about his former collaborators, the Republicans.

So Saddam Hussein is slated to die. Good. Had he been executed, assassinated, or simply expired a few years ago, the world would have been saved a great deal of pain. Few dictators have ever been more loathsome or long-lived, their methods more cruel, their regimes more totalitarian. His government was every bit as ruthless as Adolf Hitler’s, but the Nazis only ran Germany for a dozen years, Saddam—behind the throne and then on it—ruled Iraq for thirty-five. It is good to know he will pay some price on this earth for evils that will live long after him.

But what about the Americans—the Republicans, in fact—who helped Saddam remain in power all those years and then, changing their minds when the monster proved beyond their control, launched the ill planned and shamefully executed war to eliminate him that continues to this day? (more…)

• Long Lines, Voting Machine Problems Reported Across State (Ohio)
• Problems Reported With Voting Machines by Microvote (Indiana)
• Several Reports Say New Voting Machines Not Working (Pennsylvania)
• Problems during early voting on the Suncoast (Florida)
• Down phone lines might affect Election Day (Florida)
• Missouri elections chief in election dispute (Missouri)
• Poll workers struggle with vote machines (Indiana)
• Some voting poll locations reporting problems (Texas)
• Diebold could be big loser in today’s elections
• Local Polling Places Report Some Problems (Virginia)
• ID rules, machines early voting problems
• Long lines, problems with voting machines reported across Ohio (Ohio)
• Republicans See Edge From Early Voting (prepare yourselves for a “surprise upset” thanks to Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia)

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We need a new Congress — here’s 109 reasons why:

1. Congress set a record for the fewest number of days worked — 218 between the House and Senate combined. [Link]

2. The Senate voted down a measure that urged the administration to start a phased redeployment of U.S. forces out of Iraq by the end of 2006. [Link]

3. Congress failed to raise the minimum wage, leaving it at its lowest inflation-adjusted level since 1955. [Link]

4. Congress gave itself a two percent pay raise. [Link]

5. There were 15,832 earmarks totaling $71 billion in 2006. (In 1994, there were 4,155 earmarks totaling $29 billion.) [Link]

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Republican candidates are pulling out all the stops to bring disgruntled conservative voters home on Election Day. Dozens of conservative talk show hosts were invited to the White House to interview Vice President Cheney, political adviser Karl Rove and other top officials.

President Bush and his colleagues are telling voters that no matter how unhappy they are with Republicans, they’ll like Democrats even less.

But evidence from around the country suggests that even if the conservatives come home to the Republican Party, the GOP could still lose Congress by losing libertarian voters. (more…)

Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Pete Hoekstra, continues to believe that weapons of mass destruction were in Iraq at the start of the Iraq War. In this clip from CNN Late Edition, Hoekstra points to documents revealed in the New York Times as showing that Saddam was much closer to having a nuclear bomb than many people thought.

The host of the program, Wolf Blitzer, interrupts Hoekstra and indicates that Hoekstra is basing his disingenuous claim on document describing Iraq’s capabilities prior to the first Gulf War. Iraq was not allowed to retain the nuclear technology after the war.

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In June, Hoekstra unequivocally claimed that WMD had been found in Iraq. From a press conference with Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), 6/21/06:

Congressman Hoekstra and I are here today to say that we have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons.

Hoekstra and Santorum went on a media blitz, telling anyone who would listen that WMD’s had been found. (The pair seized on a report describing abandoned, degraded pre-1991 munitions that were already acknowledged by the White House’s Iraq Survey Group and dismissed.) Yesterday, Hoekstra reversed course, saying it he didn’t know whether there was WMD or not. CNN, 11/5/06: (more…)