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'Electoral Integrity Project' Report Ranks U.S. 26th
Friday, 21 November 2014, 4:06 pm | Brad Friedman
A report by researchers at Harvard and the University of Sydney finds the U.S. ranks just 26th on a global index of election integrity. That finding places the U.S. in the category of nations with "Moderate" election integrity, ranking the country one ... More >>
Guest Hosting 'Malloy Show' Monday!
Friday, 29 July 2011, 4:50 pm | Brad Friedman
TONIGHT: Obama & Boehner's LIVE Addresses on Fake 'Debt Crisis'; Columnist Robert Scheer; John Amato of 'Crooks & Liars'! We're back in one more night, as Mike wings his way back from Seattle's weekend Progressive Voices conference, filling in to ... More >>
WI Citizen Jumps Through DMV Hoops To Cast Legal Vote
Friday, 29 July 2011, 12:43 pm | Brad Friedman
Bank statement examined for 'activity'; 'Free' ID must be specifically 'requested' by voter, DOT official concedes to BRAD BLOG DMV Supervisor: 'They shouldn't even be doing any of it'... "This is what voter suppression looks like." Those are the ... More >>
Maddow: 'You can't vote them out if you can't vote'...
Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 2:46 pm | Brad Friedman
The GOP voter fraud epidemic continues unabated. The latest alleged felon? Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to China, former Utah Governor --- and potential 2012 GOP Presidential candidate --- Jon Huntsman Jr. More >>
Sunday Night, Monday Morning at Fukushima
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 11:26 pm | Brad Friedman
It's probably too early to breathe a full sigh of relief [ Update: Apparently it is. See our late UPDATES at bottom of article. ], but encouraging signs continue to come from officials concerning the state of the six nuclear reactors (and their ... More >>
Breaking: Smoke Billowing From Reactor 3 at Fukushima
Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 4:54 pm | Brad Friedman
The smoke seen rising above from Fukushima's Daiichi nuclear power planet is believed to be emanating from reactor Unit 3, according to the Japanese government's chief spokesperson Yukio Edano who just completed a press conference moments ago. Due to ... More >>
Fox Reports Violence! Mayhem! and Battery! in Wisconsin
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 11:56 am | Brad Friedman
We were under the impression that the tens of thousands of citizen protesters in Wisconsin, standing up against Big Government's attempt to take away their freedoms over the last three weeks, were extremely peaceful. But, apparently, that's because ... More >>
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Plot to Discredit Perceived Enemies
Thursday, 3 March 2011, 11:51 am | Brad Friedman
Washington Post's Dan Eggen reports tonight for Tuesday's paper that "more than a dozen" Democrats in the U.S. House are now calling on "Republican leaders" to open an investigation into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce plot which had been set to target ... More >>
WikiLeaks Condemns Tucson Shooting Spree
Thursday, 13 January 2011, 10:04 am | Brad Friedman
Late this evening, via an announcement linked from Twitter , the whistleblower media organization WikiLeaks released a statement related to the Saturday attack in Tucson on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and 19 others. More >>
In Wake of WikiLeaks Cable Release JFK's Remarks on Secrecy
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 10:09 am | Brad Friedman
Some 250,000 classified cables and embassy dispatches from the State Department are being released today via WikiLeaks latest, and reportedly largest, document dump ever. Within the last hour, news reports based on those documents have begun to be ... More >>
Brad Friedman: Federal Judge Rules for Miller
Monday, 22 November 2010, 4:15 pm | Brad Friedman
An Alaska federal judge ruled Friday that Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller's challenge to the counting of write-in ballots raises "serious" legal issues but is a matter for a state, not federal, court to decide. More >>
Joe Miller Would be Wise to Seek 'Hand Count' in Alaska
Monday, 22 November 2010, 2:03 pm | Brad Friedman
A fully transparent reconciliation would well serve democracy, particularly given AK's dreadful election history... After a week of hand-counting paper write-in ballots in Alaska's three-way U.S. Senate race between incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (who ... More >>
BRADBLOG: On Heels Of Diebold/Premier Purchase
Tuesday, 22 June 2010, 3:45 pm | Brad Friedman
Canadian-based Dominion Voting Systems has quietly announced its second acquisition of a major U.S. voting machine company in as many months and, right out of the gate, they've lied about it. Not an auspicious beginning for the company which may now, ... More >>
Discredited E-Voting Vendor Appointed to U.S. EAC
Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 12:48 pm | Brad Friedman
Federal body tasked with overseeing U.S. certification of e-voting systems appoints scammer Edwin Smith, VP of e-voting companies Sequoia, Dominion, Hart-Intercivic... More >>
Brad Friedman: NY-23 and the E-Voting 'Virus'
Monday, 23 November 2009, 11:54 am | Brad Friedman
On Thursday, Nathan Barker of upstate New York's Gouverneur Times --- a far-Right online publication ( featuring columns by the likes of Michelle Malkin, Oliver North, Chuck Norris, and all the rest of the wingnutters) --- filed a lengthy, and somewhat ... More >>
'Slow-Motion Comedy Show': Days 4&5 MN Senate Case
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 6:05 pm | Brad Friedman
This afternoon, Day 5 of the U.S. Senate election contest between former Sen. Norm Coleman (R) and apparent winner of the '08 election Al Franken (D), Coleman offered another reason, just in case you needed one, to oppose his return to the Senate: More >>
'Republican War on Democracy': Latest Offensives
Monday, 29 September 2008, 12:53 am | Brad Friedman
In Swing States, Coordinated Disinformation is Sent to Student Voters, Challenges Being Made to Eligibility of Low-Income Voters Who've Lost Their Homes More >>