Last night’s debate wasn’t about policy, it was about politics. America was the big loser in last night’s debate – no matter what party you belong to. I think it also exposed a big gaping hole in another part of our election system that needs repairs – debates. Debates have become nothing but a ratings […]
Or as I like to call it, “Fucking Crooks!”. It looks like Mitch McConnell is more worried about his own finances than he is the country. Here is an interesting story that rings of Duke Cunningham: Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is pushing $25 million in earmarked federal funds for a British defense contractor that is […]
Today’s New York Times digs deeper into the GOP red herring: Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews. Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so […]
With 2 weeks to go, this is very bad news: As if there weren’t enough concerns about the integrity of the vote, a non-partisan civic organization today claimed it had hacked into the voter database for the 1.35 million voters in the city of Chicago. Bob Wilson, an official with the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project […]
They must have taken a page right out of the old U.S.A. playbook on democracy: The daily newspaper El Universal reported 10 ballot boxes and a polling station report were found in a garbage dump in a poor neighbourhood on the edge of Mexico City. Activists demonstrated outside offices of the government’s prosecutor for electoral […]