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League of Women Voters Refuse to Sponsor Rigged Gubernatorial Debate

News With Views (OR)

September 5, 2006

Salem -- After defeating an election challange by Attorney Kelly Clark, who attempted to have her removed from the November ballot, Constitution Party gubernatorial candidate Mary Starrett is being prevented from participating in the upcoming televised de

The Rogue Valley chapter of the League of Women Voters decided to withdraw its sponsorship of the gubernatorial debate because the two party-machine candidates -- Republican Saxton and incumbant Democrat Gov. Ted Kulongoski -- gave third party candidates the thumbs down.

The One World Order: Weapons of Mass Inhumanity - Part 8

News With Views

by Deanna Spingola

August 27, 2006

There have been many contrived justifications to goad Americans into spilling their blood and their money for war: the explosion on the Maine, Pearl Harbor which our government knew about and allowed to happen...

David Rockefeller said: "We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." So David was 9-11 the "right" major crisis or are there others planned that might be more right? Should we avoid tall outdated, well-insured buildings?

The Naked President

News With Views

by Chuck Baldwin

August 24, 2006

I well remember back in the 2000 elections many conservatives attempting to assuage my trepidation and misgiving regarding candidate GW Bush by saying, "Chuck, don't worry; Bush cannot act like a conservative, because he wouldn't be able to get elected.

Well, we waited and waddled through Dubya's first term in office, and there was precious little indication of his "true conservatism." Then, those same conservatives said, "Chuck, don't worry; G.W. couldn't act like a conservative his first term, because he wouldn't be able to get re-elected..." Now, nearly six years into Bush's presidency, I'm still waiting to see his "true conservatism."

The FBI's Upgrade That Wasn't

Washington Post

by Dan Eggen and Griff Witte

August 21, 2006

...[T]he collapse of the attempt to remake the FBI's filing system stemmed from failures of almost every kind, including poor conception and muddled execution of the steps needed to make the system work.

But the problems were not the FBI's alone. Because of an open-ended contract with few safeguards, SAIC reaped more than $100 million as the project became bigger and more complicated, even though its software never worked properly. The company continued to meet the bureau's requests, accepting payments despite clear signs that the FBI's approach to the project was badly flawed. Lawmakers and experts have faulted the FBI for its part in the failed project. But less attention has been paid to the role that the contractor played in contributing to the problems. A previously unreleased audit found that the system delivered by SAIC was so incomplete and unusable that it left the FBI with little choice but to scuttle the effort altogether.

A Single Person Could Swing an Election

The Washington Post

by Zachary A. Goldfarb

June 28, 2006

To determine what it would take to hack a U.S. election, a team of cybersecurity experts turned to a fictional battleground state called Pennasota and a fictional gubernatorial race between Tom Jefferson and Johnny Adams.

It's the year 2007, and the state uses electronic voting machines. Jefferson was forecast to win the race by about 80,000 votes, or 2.3 percent of the vote. Adams's conspirators thought, "How easily can we manipulate the election results?"

Editorial: The Democrats' morning after

San Francisco Chronicle (CA)

June 8, 2006

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides should begin the general-election campaign by asking himself why so many of his party brethren are expressing such little enthusiasm for his nomination.

The low turnout was not the only signal that Angelides might want to rethink strategies between now and November. The resounding defeat of Proposition 82, which would have taxed upper-income earners to subsidize universal preschool, suggests that voters statewide are looking warily at tax increases and government expansion.

David Beats Goliath - Again

Reliable Answers.com

by Annette M. Hall

June 7, 2006

Today California preschoolers can breath a sigh of relief as the dust settles on the California Initiative - Proposition 82, otherwise known as the 'Preschool-For-All' initiative.

Prop. 82 was soundly defeated 39.1% to 60.9% during the primary elections last night. For the past two years Diane Flynn Keith producer and editor of UniversalPreschool.com, has been pouring her heart and soul into rallying opposition forces, in what at times seemed like David vs. Goliath.

Voters reject Prop. 82

The Mercury News (CA)

by Dana Hull

June 7, 2006

California voters soundly rejected Proposition 82 Tuesday, crushing the hopes of early childhood education advocates who hoped to make universal preschool public policy in the nation's most populous state.

Throughout much of the evening, returns showed that 60 percent of voters statewide opposed Prop. 82 while just 40 percent supported it, making it nearly impossible for the measure to ever get the simple majority it needed to pass. "It doesn't look good," admitted Hollywood director Rob Reiner, who spoke to about 200 supporters at a Los Angeles hotel ballroom shortly after 10 p.m. But he vowed to fight on, saying that the push for universal preschool would not go away. "This is important, and if it is not today the train has left the station."

Group tries to ensure voting accuracy

Marin Independent Journal

by Richard Halstead

June 6, 2006

A citizens watchdog group will attempt today to gauge the accuracy of Marin's electronic voting system. The group distributed paper exit polls to the households of about 980 registered voters in Novato over the weekend.

The idea is to have voters duplicate their votes on the paper ballots, which will later be hand-counted in public. All of the voters belong to the same voting precinct and will cast their ballots at the Pleasant Valley Elementary School. "We left it on the doorstep. We didn't ring the bell or anything," said Linda Bagneschi Dorrance of Novato, a publicist who is coordinating the effort with the assistance of about 22 volunteers.

California election advice: don’t put your belly where your mouth is

Times Online (UK)

by Chris Ayres

June 6, 2006

WARNING: the story you are about to read is so cringe-inducing that readers sensitive to embarrassment might want to turn the page. It concerns a man called Cruz Bustamante, once the most senior Latino elected to office in the United States, and once

Bustamante, who does not seem to belong in California - what with his moustache, George Constanza hairdo and tubby frame (he once weighed close to 300lb) - has struggled to keep the public's attention since being terminated. Hence he turned his continuing campaign to become the state's next insurance commissioner into an Opray Winfrey-style weight-loss programme.

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