I just saw this posted over on DKos.
Republicans are so afraid to run on their merits that they continue to resort to dirty tricks.

Listen to this robocall (.WAV) being sent to Virginia voters:
Tim Daly from Clarendon got a call saying that if he votes Tuesday, he will be arrested. A recording of his voicemail can be found online at: www. ( Read more... )

From Democracy Now!'s focus on voting today:

1. A segment on Hacking Democracy, the new documentary airing Thursday on HBO.

2. New rules may disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of eligible voters.

3. Karl Rove's real strategy: sorry, L.A. Times, it ain't just the convenient allocation of of federal funding to boost RepublicansThis is why ( Read more... )

Nobody knows yet what the election outcomes will be, but this is already shaping up to be the Year of the Wacky. Let's see, we've got bogus Republican attack ads:

* In Ohio, The GOP is saying Democratic senatorial candidate Sherrod Brown didn't pay a tax bill for twelve years. What actually happened was his campaign didn't pay it on time, they ( Read more... )

Via FDL:



If you can't see the embed, it's to a video covering the problems with touchscreen voting, and success people have had in pushing back. The bad news: these machines are "a disaster waiting to happen". The good news: lawsuits are being filed to de-certify them or prevent their purchase around the country. New Mexico has ( Read more... )

Despite all the happy news about how much the country doesn't like Bush or the Republican Congress, how you vote may not matter if you vote on a Diebold voting machine. A Princton University study documents how ridiculously easy they are to untraceably hack, and they've got it on video:

*fumes* [direct link for when the embed doesn't work]

( Squirrel Nut Zippers campaign ads, Best War Ever promo, Iraq for Sale trailer, and 9-11 documentary link behind the cut. )

In response to the Supreme Court telling him the authorization of force Congress passed after 9-11 didn't actually create him emperor, Bush has submitted a new "terror detainee bill" which would let him do the things he was trying to do all along. i.e., hold anybody he likes for as long as he likes without any of the usual rights and protections ( Read more... )

Congressman Murtha is getting kickass enough that I think it may be time for him to stop flying in small aircraft.

Awesome: Reid vows to stop future congressional pay raises until congress rasies the minimum wage. Seems fair. After all, they've had "cost of living" pay increases amounting to $31,600 in the last nine years. That's pay increases ( Read more... )

The anti-flag desecration amendment falls one vote short of the 2/3 majority of Senators required to send it to the states.

Whoever shall curb that infamous rash of recent flag-burning incidents now ( Read more... )

Robert F Kennedy thinks so, and so do I.
But despite the media blackout, indications continued to emerge that something deeply troubling had taken place in 2004. Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad(3) never received their ballots -- or received them too late to vote(4) -- after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state-of- ( Read more... )

There are no outgoing links or footnotes to back any of these alleged facts up, but I'm reposting them just to see what everyone else thinks. ( 20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the United States )