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HAND-COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS FOR IA GOP CAUCUS-GOERS!
Great news! Though, hypocrisy, thy name is GOP...
Newt Gets Busted in the 'Dept. of Shameless Schadenfreude'
Maddow Show on the hypocrisy of Gingrich's massive VA 'voter fraud', after he'd decried ACORN's massive (if non-existent) 'voter fraud' years prior...
Video: Brad Talks GOP 'Voter Fraud' Fraud on Thom Hartmann's 'Big Picture'
Newt Gingrich is hoisted on his own GOP petard in VA & the DoJ pushes back against voter disenfranchisement in SC...
GINGRICH ADMITS CAMP COMMITTED MASSIVE 'VOTER FRAUD' IN VA
(At least by GOP/Fox 'News' ACORN standards, anyway)...
HYPOCRISY: GOP REQUIRES NO PHOTO I.D. TO VOTE IN IOWA CAUCUSES
Though the GOP itself sets the rules and runs the entire thing, the party is placing no Photo ID restrictions on their voters...
93-Year Old Who Cleaned the TN Capitol for Decades Told She Can't Vote Without New ID
Born at home, Thelma Mitchell never had a birth certificate, but she did have the right to vote...
LA Times' Hatchet Job on Elizabeth Warren, Occupy Wall Street
The corporate media outlet continues its 'fair and balanced' advocacy on behalf of the oligarcy...
DOJ REJECTS SOUTH CAROLINA POLLING PLACE PHOTO ID RESTRICTION LAW
Feds find racial disparity in state GOP's new voter suppression law in violation of Voting Rights Act...
FEDS CONFIRM: BALLOT SCANNERS MADE BY ES&S; DROPPING VOTES
U.S. EAC finds serious flaws found in ES&S; paper ballot op-scan systems used in many large, swing states...
INDIANA'S REPUBLICAN SEC. OF STATE ORDERED REMOVED FROM OFFICE
Judge finds state's chief election official, Charlie White, accused voter fraud felon, ineligible to serve, lied about own voter registration...
TODAY: New coal plant rules; Aid to Africa; China 'occupy' against coal; Nigerian oil spill; Melting Arctic...
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Brad on KPFK: 'War on Democracy' Special
The latest battles to try and see votes counted in some places, and to keep voters from even voting in others, as 2012 Election Cycle finally set to begin in January...
PROGRESSIVE RADIO TO REMAIN IN SAN FRAN...BUT W/ BECK ADDED?! YUP.
Bizarre line-up changes as Clear Channel reverses plan to kill Progressive Talk in progressive Bay Area...
THE BRAD BLOG'S RECOMMENDED #OWS 'DEMAND'
All citizens 18+ get to vote. Period. And on hand-counted paper ballots...
VIDEO: 'Rise of the Tea Bags'
Brad interviews American patriots...
'Democracy's Gold Standard'
Hand-marked, hand-counted ballots...
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Japan Quake/Tsunami/Nuke Emergency...
6/4/11: Fukushima Radiation at Highest Level Since Crisis Began
Germany announces plan to dismantle all nukes by 2022...
5/12/11: TEPCO Admits Unit 1 Reactor 'Meltdown', Fuel Rods Exposed
Radiation believed leaking through hole in bottom of containment vessel...
3/30/11: AUDIO: Brad on KPFK w/ Fukushima News and More...
Joined by the lovely Desi Doyen of the Green News Report...
3/29/11: 'Maximum Alert': Crisis Continues, TEPCO Prez Hospitalized
PLUS: A glimpse at living conditions for the heroic plant workers...
3/29/11: 'Green News Report' - Special Coverage: Japan Fallout
Fukushima's nuke disaster leads to political shift in Germany; Congressional concerns about US nuke evacuation plans...
3/27/11: TEPCO 'Very Sorry': Radiation Spikes, Work Remains Perilous
Plant operator apologizes, again; AP reports they 'all but disregarded 3,000 years of geological history' in designing safe-guards'...
3/25/11: 'Grave And Serious': More Comparison to Chernobyl Levels
Rupture feared; Workers contaminated; New evacs 'recommended'...
PLUS: German study uses French data to corroborate findings from Austrian, U.S. scientists, suggesting Fukushima disaster should be reclassified as 'level 7' accident, on par with Chernobyl...
3/25/11: Brad on 'Randi Rhodes Show' on Disaster, US 'Fallout'
Breaking developments and speculation on the supposed 'nuclear renaissance' previously scheduled for the US...
3/24/11: 'Step at a Time & a Few More Steps': Disturbing New Science
Stabilization continues, as new data suggests 50% of radioactive cesium released by Chernobyl already released by Daiichi's reactors...
3/24/11: 'Green News Report'- Special Coverage: Japan Disaster
Death toll rising; Tap water warning lifted in Tokyo, spreading elsewhere; Radiation hospitalizes workers; Support for nukes drops in US; PLUS: Struggling to maintaining tradition amidst disaster...
3/23/11: Brad's KPFK Intvw w/ VOA's Steve Herman in Tokyo
'Neutron beams', water 'panic', black smoke and the public responses from TEPCO, the government and the people of Japan, LIVE from Tokyo...
3/23/11: Setbacks: Black Smoke, Evacuations, Tokyo Tap Water
'Panic' reported as stores run dry of bottled water after government says iodine in metropolitan water unsafe for infants...
3/22/11: 'Razor-Thin Margins', Positive Progress at Fukushima
Control room re-opened as some power returns, workers attempt to restore cooling systems; U.S. NRC offers mixed signals...
3/22/11: 'Green News Report' - Special Coverage: Nuclear Crisis
Fukushima on edge; Japan's wind farms to the rescue; New US nuke reviews; PLUS: Oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico...
3/20/11: 'Closer to Bringing Situation Under Control': Sun & Mon
Stabilization precarious; UPDATED: Gray smoke forces evacuation...
3/19/11: Some Reactors 'Stabilized' as War Breaks Out Elsewhere
PLUS: Radiation detected in food, water; New Gulf oil slick discovered; War protesters arrested; Slow news week continues...
3/18/11: 'Renewed Nuclear Chain Reaction Feared': Friday Fukushima
Spent fuel rod danger; Fallout detected in S. California; Wind 'saving Japan's ass'; Coulter: Radiation 'good for you'; PM's office tweets...
3/17/11: Brad Interviews Palast: TEPCO Plans for New Nukes in TX
Govt fraud investigator on "bankrupt, corrupt, criminal" nuke companies...
3/17/11: 'Green News Report' - Special Coverage: Crisis in Japan
Compounding natural, humanitarian and spiraling nuclear disasters - desperate measures to hold off a nightmare...
3/17/11: VIDEO: Close-up Aerial Footage of Crippled Plant
TEPCO offers most detailed view yet of ravaged Fukushima reactors...
3/16/11: Desperation: Helicopters Drop Water On Hot Nuke Reactors
Def Minister: 'We could not delay further'; Four risky drops on Unit 3; Water said in Unit 4 fuel pool; Water cannon trucks next | VIDEO...
3/16/11: Dozens of Countries, Not U.S., Tell Citizens to Leave Tokyo
UK, Germany, France more worried than us. Who ya gonna believe?...
3/15/11: SMOKE BILLOWS FROM FUKUSHIMA'S REACTOR 3
Workers evacuated as radiation levels rose quickly; Govt's chief spokesperson says smoke believed to be radioactive steam...
3/15/11: 'Green News Report': Japan on Brink of Nuclear Disaster
Natural, humanitarian and now man-made disaster, as 50 nuclear plant workers stand in the way of nuclear meltdown...
3/14/11: PM: RADIATION DANGER, EVACS WIDENED, 'STAY CALM'
Explosions at Reactors 2 & 4; Fuels Rods at Unit 2 'Half Exposed';
All but 50 workers evacuated from plant...
3/13/11: EXPLOSION AT FUKUSHIMA'S NUKE REACTOR UNIT 3
U.S. 7th Fleet repositioned after exposure to radioactive cloud
Sunday live blogging 2nd EXPLOSION at Fukushima...
3/13/11: VIDEO: From Within the Tsunami, a Town Engulfed
Watch as a town disappears in minutes...
3/12/11: EXPLOSION ROCKS FUKUSHIMA NUKE REACTOR UNIT 1
Cooling System Fails at Unit 3 | Govt: 'Partial Meltdown' Under Way Saturday day, night live blog following 1st EXPLOSION at Fukushima...
3/11/11: NUCLEAR EMERGENCIES AT 5 REACTORS
Friday day, night live blog until EXPLOSION at Fukushima reactor...
3/11/11: 'Big Government Tyranny' Saved Countless Lives
Strict building codes in Japan likely impossible now here...
3/11/11: 8.9 QUAKE, TSUNAMI STRIKES JAPAN - VIDEO
Unprecedented disaster strikes, towns washed away in seconds...
WikiLeaks / Julian Assange...
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SPECIAL COVERAGE: The Riverside County Sequoia Hack Challenge

ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTS...

BRAD BLOG COVERAGE...

12/6/06: RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA SUPERVISOR BETS 'A THOUSAND TO ONE' THAT HIS SEQUOIA VOTING MACHINES CAN'T BE HACKED!
Challenges Election Integrity Advocates to 'See if Your Programmer Can Manipulate That Machine' at Public, Video Taped Meeting!
Invites Media to Witness Challenge!

12/12/06: EXCLUSIVE: Renowned Computer Security Expert Agrees to Meet California County Supervisor's '1000 to 1' Challenge to 'Manipulate' Sequoia Voting Machine!
Harri Hursti --- The Lead Programmer Who Hacked Diebold Systems in Both Florida and Utah --- Looking Forward to Testing the Security Vulnerability of Riverside County's Systems!
Election Integrity Individuals, Group, Stake $1000 for Charity on Supervisor Jeff Stone's Offer!

12/13/06: 'RIVERSIDE CHALLENGE': County Supervisors, Voting Machine Company Begin to go Wobbly
Press Coverage Reveals Board of Supervisors, Sequoia Laying Groundwork to Try and Wriggle Out of '1000 to 1' Bet Their Voting Machines Can't Be Hacked...

12/19/06: 'RIVERSIDE CHALLENGE': 'Hot Rod Harri's Fight to the Finnish'

1/5/07: California County Official Who Dared 'Hackers' to Manipulate Voting System Gets Desperate!
Sends Letter to Outgoing CA Sec. of State Attempting to Create New Conditions for Hack Test! Computer Security Experts Deride!
EXCLUSIVE: Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone's Complete Letter to SoS Bruce McPherson

1/18/07: Jeff Stone: The Coward of Riverside County?
The California County Supervisor Continues to Hide Behind Unrealistic 'Conditions' on His Sequoia Voting Machine 'Hack Challenge'
COLUMNIST: 'A test that doesn't allow the hacker to work on the machines as handled prior to the election and after it is no real test at all.'

2/10/07: SEQUOIA TOUCH-SCREEN VOTING MACHINES HACKED, FOUND VULNERABLE TO VOTE-FLIPPING BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY!
New Jersey Attorney to Ask Judge for Decertification of Company's 'AVC Advantage' System After Machines Found Untested by State
Princeton Professor Paid $86 For Online Purchase of 5 Machines That a NJ County Paid $40,000 for...

2/26/07: EXCLUSIVE: California SoS Finds No State Law to Prohibit Proposed Riverside County 'Hack Test' of Sequoia Touch-Screen Machines!
But Secretary Bowen Says Board of Supes Proposed 'Ground Rules' for Test 'Overly Narrow', 'Would Prove Little and Give Voters False Sense of Security'
Supervisor Stone's Hope for SoS Participation in '1000 to 1' Bet with Election Integrity Advocates under Unilateral, Unrealistic Restrictions Flatly Rejected by State's New Election Chief...

3/28/07: HACKIN' HARRI HURSTI TO APPEAR BEFORE PANEL IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA!
Finnish Security Expert to Appear, Give Testimony This Friday Before County's 'Blue Ribbon' Commission Investigating Complaints About Local Election System
No Word on Whether Gamblin' County Supervisor, Jeff '1000 to 1' Stone, Will Be in Attendance...

4/1/07: Hackin' Harri Hursti a Hit in Riverside County, California
As we Sit Down for a One-on-One Debriefing with the Finnish Computer Security Expert and Discuss American Elections, Rush Holt's Reform Bill, Debra Bowen, 'Black Hats' and Why Elections Matter
Big Turnout and Good Press Coverage Accompany his Riverside Visit, Even if Jeff '1000 to 1' Stone Was a No Show...

7/13/07: 'Blue Ribbon' Committee to Riverside County, CA Board of Supes: Dump DRE Touch-Screen Voting Systems!
Enormous Victory as Dogged Citizen Advocacy Finally Pays Off!
Committee Also Recommends Security Audit of Registrar's Office in First County in America to Move to Touch-Screen Voting Systems...

8/18/07: Riverside County, CA to Hold Sequoia Accountable for Lies, Faulty Voting Machines?
If So, Let the Fraud Suits Begin!

9/20/07: Riverside County, CA Board of Supes to Sequoia Voting Systems: 'Drop Dead'
Board Members Threaten 'Not Another Dime' For Company That Has Failed Them to the Tune of $27 Million So Far
The Time is Now for Accountability...

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