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Voter Suppression in Midterm Elections: Electronic Glitches, ID Confusion, Voter Roll Purges A day before the 2006 midterm elections, we speak with New York Times editorial writer Adam Cohen about voter suppression in the United States and discuss some of the key races across the country. In his latest article, Cohen writes, "Six years after the 2000 election meltdown, voting machines are still unreliable, and there are an array of other obstacles to voters who want their votes to count. Voting is a right and a responsibility, but it is also, unfortunately, a challenge."...
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 7:00am PST
Green Party gubernatorial candidate visits Vallejo church 
This recent report about the Camejo campaign comes from the Vallejo Times Herald....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 6:59am PST
Proposition 90: The Destroy California Initiative Proposition 90 is being marketed as a way to stop Big Brother from taking your home. It might actually destroy everything that makes California livable...
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 6:42am PST
Why are San Francisco Supes Meeting on Election Day? Tomorrow is Election Day – when many critical decisions affecting us over the next two years will be made. Polls open at 7:00 a.m. and close at 8:00 p.m., but it’s advisable that you vote earlier in the day to avoid long lines. But many people will have to wait after 5:00 p.m. because they have jobs. With all the national, state and city holidays that we have during the year, it’s incredible that Election Day is not a holiday. What’s even more absurd is that the San Francisco Board of Supervi...
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 6:38am PST
Protests mount in Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstan's president, has sacked his interior minister amid the worst crisis he has faced in his 16-months in office....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 6:34am PST
The Democratic Salvation And The Idiotic Left d'Aymery looks at the political landscape and dirests withering criticism at Leftist commentators who are (like many in 2004) planning to support the Lesser of Two Evils-- the Democrats in the mid-term elections.
Go to the original source to follow the surprising links....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 6:07am PST
Limiting the Damage: PAUL KRUGMAN - The Stakes Krugman: The Stakes - President Bush isn’t on the ballot tomorrow. But this election is, nonetheless, all about him.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE...
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 5:51am PST
New Telemarketing Ploy Steers Voters on Republican Path An automated voice at the other end of the telephone line asks whether you believe that judges who “push homosexual marriage and create new rights like abortion and sodomy” should be controlled. If your reply is “yes,” the voice lets you know that the Democratic candidate in the Senate race in Montana, Jon Tester, is not your man....
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 10:00pm PST
Republican dirty tricks with robo-calls to Democratic voters It's been covered in the blog-world for a little while with local citizens reporting in their annoyance with these prerecorded campaign "ads", but now finally it is starting to reach a wider audience in at least one district this dirty trick is being used. The trick is that the Repugs, in most cases the National Republican Congressional Committee rather than the local campaigns themselves, they call known Democratic voters with robo-calls that say, more or less, "We're calling to give you so...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 8:44pm PST
Mike R's Anti-Campaign 
We're not associated with any parties and don't advocate any candidates. Honestly, we don't even advocate voting. But IF you vote, for fuck sake don't vote for Mike....
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 7:50pm PST
A late “October Surprise”? The bankrupt bush administration seems to be planning a little surprise before the mid-term elections. It seems that there are serious preparations to announce saddam’s death verdict tomorrow or the day after in a pathetic attempt to manufacture a small victory in Iraq to effect the mid-term elections. After 16 years of wars, sanctions, invasions and an ongoing occupation, the only victories that the bush gang is still celebrating in Iraq, after capture of the former ally and showing him in h...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 2:04pm PST
No on Measure G Campaign for Low Wages! When we hear reports on raising the minimum wage in Santa Cruz to $9.25/hr, the opponents (such as Bookshop Santa Cruz, Goodwill Industries, the Seaside Company) claim it will "close businesses" "force business owners to cut health care benefits" and "hurt family-owned businesses." But has this happened in the cities where the minimum wage HAS been raised? What about the fate of workers who must try to pay for rent, food, and transportation in one of the most expensive counties in the count...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 12:07pm PST
Measure H will fund Police 4x more than fixing roads This 1/4 cent sales tax increase proposal is hawked as a measure to repair potholes and damaged roads. But only 9% is earmarked for Public Works while 37% will go to the best-paid department in the City of Santa Cruz: the police...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 11:57am PST
District 10 Candidate Forum on POOR Magazine Radio on KPFA POOR Magazine's Monthly Radio Broadcast on KPFA's Morning Show on 94.1 fm...
Event Date: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 7:30am PST
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 11:26am PST
The District 10 Community Speaks with its Candidates 
Poverty Scholars and residents of District 10 meet and question their candidates at POOR Magazine's Community Newsroom...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 11:10am PST
Races to Watch: Anti-Immigrant Candidates and Propositions on the Ballot 
SAN FRANCISCO--As voters go to the polls Tuesday, observers on all sides of the immigration debate will be watching the outcomes of these key races....
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 10:05am PST
Viet American Votes May Swing San Jose Election Ten days before the runoff election for mayor in San Jose, between Vice Mayor Cindy Chavez and Councilmember Chuck Reed, both registered democrats, the race is too close to call....
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 10:01am PST
Throw the Truthiness Bums Out: FRANK RICH - Fiction vs. Reality Rich: Fiction vs. Reality - Voters may rally for reality on this crucial Election Day even as desperate politicians and some of their media enablers try one more time to stay their fictional course.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE WITH ALL HYPERLINKS...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 7:14am PST
Is it Possible to have Fair and Accurate Elections in Fresno? 
Some insights into electronic voting and the voting process in Fresno County....
Posted: Sat, Nov 4, 2006 6:59pm PST
It's Always Darkest, Right Before ... It Goes Completely Black 
Phil Rocksdroh: "I'm outright mortified as to where we as a nation are headed, regardless of the outcome of Tuesday's midterm elections. Given the bender of destruction we've been on, our nation needs far more help than a simple changing of the party affiliation of our corporate enablers -- it needs an intervention."...
Posted: Sat, Nov 4, 2006 10:00am PST
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