what?
dont think this is funny?

sorry bleeding hearts..
The TRAGEDY is the hundreds of black males KILLED BY NYPD
with IMPUNITY in the past twenty years ALONE

courtesy of the new DNA database for children.

I have just one question: If elections administrators — the ultimate insiders for control of vote-counting computers and local voting lists — are in a position to create advantage for candidates or a political party, why make their jobs into patronage positions?

Chew on that for a minute. Tennessee’s going nuts plugging in the partisans:

(TN) 4/09 - COUNTY ELECTION OFFICIALS BEING DUMPED DUE TO PARTY AFFILIATION -
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Local election boards in Tennessee are claiming they can fire election administrators based on political party. The state attorney general disagrees. Nevertheless, ousted they are: Loudon County’s election official, fired. Roane County election official told “You’re out.” Six counties have already announced they are pushing out their election officials; Monroe County’s election administrator is sweating his job, and officials in Anderson, Union, Sevier, Greene, Knox, Jefferson and Cocke County are in the hot seat. Cumberland, McMinn, Hamblen, and Morgan election officials have already bit the dust.

NEWS LINK

Many crying foul as election administrators see unprecedented turnover

Woops here’s another …
(TN) 5/09 - WEAKLEY: ELECTION DIRECTOR DUMPED IN POLITICAL ACTION; PARTISAN INSTALLED -
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CASHON OUT IN POLITICAL ACTION, CASTLEMAN IN

Hopping over to Washington State, let’s have a look at something all-too-familiar to Black Box Voting: Refusal to fork over election-related public records. At least Washington State has a remedy of sorts (fines for noncompliance). In most states you’re just out of luck.

(WA) 4/09 - KING - COUNTY TO PAY $225,000 FOR WITHHOLDING ROSSI RECORDS
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A King County election records lawsuit ended up with the county agreeing to pay a whopping penalty fine. Get this, and this is why public right to know is CRUCIAL: The records reveal that King County officials unlawfully counted hundreds of ineligible ballots in the Rossi/Gregoire gubernatorial race (a race that went to hand recount, separated by just a few votes) and the records finally released show that King County concealed this information well after the election and gubernatorial contest trial.

ACORN-style mistakes (Voter lists filled with crud) combined with mass mail-in votes under sole control of election insiders is a toxic combination for election transparency. It enables obstruction of the truth until years later, if we ever get the truth at all.

Then-King County elections official Dean Logan, now elections chief in massive 6-million-voter Los Angeles County (another mail-in voting powerhouse) was a named defendant in this lawsuit. Logan was the elections chief for nearly the entire time that the records were withheld, and he was a named defendant in Stefan Sharkansky’s records lawsuit on Rossi results. Sharkansky’s Web site, http://www.soundpolitics.com, provides conservative political commentary and has also delivered several solid election integrity investigations.

MOST AMERICANS JUST WANT FAIR TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS: The public interest (as contrasted with the partisan interest for either side) is that we want people eligible to vote voting, ineligibles off the list, all votes counted accurately, and the right to know. Without this, we deviate from the form of government originally envisioned by the founders of this nation.

NEWSLINK

King County settles vote-records suit from 2004 governor race

(NH) 4/09 - STATE: BILL IN PLAY TO BLOCK RIGHT TO KNOW PROCESSES -
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Right to know (public right to freedom of information) is THE crucial core concept for democratic election systems. New Hampshire legislators are now working on their second attempt to erect barriers to the public right to know.

HB 349 is trying to exempt legislator’s e-mails from both right to know and court subpeonas; an earlier bill, HB 53, seeks to remove the secretary of state’s office (and other executive agencies) from right to know by redefining what a “public body” is. How the main office controlling public elections can conceivably be deemed “not public” is a question that causes some of us to shudder.
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THESE BILLS PASS, THEY DON’T REMOVE THE RIGHT, because you can’t really “remove” the inalienable rights to self-govern. What these bills seek to do is to put in place a policy to REFUSE TO HONOR the right to know.

Right to know is a necessary part of our inalienable right to self-government, which is key to our right to liberty. Almost all states, and the federal government, have right to know laws, often contextualized with preambles like the following: “Government is the servant of the people, and not the master of them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. We insist on remaining informed so that we may retain control over the instruments of government we have created.”
NEWSLINK

E-mail exempt bill goes before Senate