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Category Archives: Vote Fraud
Computer Scientist Barbara Simons Proves How Easy It Is To Hack Elections—And How It Can Be Stopped
Editor’s note: I stumbled on this diary on dailykos.com the other day. Dailykos has a policy of allowing full reprints of their articles provided they are given full acknowledgment. This diary is a good summation of the horrible mess that … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Vote Fraud, voter suppression, voting rights
Tagged verified voting
Approach To Voting Tells How Parties View Democracy
One of the quickest and easiest ways to judge how the two major parties in this country view the very fundamental concept of democracy is to simply see how they treat voters. As usual, we see Democrats busting their butts … Continue reading
Iowa Needs State Senators Brase And Courtney Returned
Don’t Forget Those State Races When You Vote! You can vote early now, so let’s get it done! Don’t forget that much of the impetus for the downgrading of American lifestyles has come from politicians not at the national level, … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election Campaign, Courtney, Vote Fraud
Tagged Chris Brase, medicaid privatization
Are You Registered To Vote?
While making calls for Hillary the other day from a list of what was supposed to be registered voters I was surprised that I ran across an unregistered voter. He was purposely unregistered and was not planning to vote. Hopefully, … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election Campaign, Vote Fraud, voting rights
Tagged absentee ballot request, absentee voting, voter registration
Voter Suppression Laws Overturned; Revives Memories Of Matt Schultz
Water carrier for the radical right attempted to unilaterally suppress voters in Iowa. Friday was a red letter day for those who have vigorously opposed the spate of voter suppression laws that sprung up around the country following the Supreme … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Schultz, Vote Fraud, voting rights
The Real Reason For Republican Voter ID Laws
Posted in 2016 Election Campaign, Vote Fraud
Tagged ALEC and voter suppression, election fraud, voter ID laws, voter suppression
Disenfranchised Voters During Primaries Bode Trouble For The GE
In what is supposed to be a democracy – heck, this is supposed to be THE democracy – we are once again witnessing troubling signs that the very essence of that democracy, the vote, is rotten. Throughout the primary and … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election Campaign, Verified Voting, Vote Fraud, voting rights
Tagged voting machines
Republicans Prep For 2016: Suppressing The Vote
video 10 minutes 30 seconds Republicans have known for a long, long time that they win when they suppress the vote. Below is a video in one of the seminal moments in the history voter suppression. Paul Weyrich reminding the … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election Campaign, ALEC, Ring of Fire Radio, SCOTUS, Vote Fraud, voting rights
Tagged originalist, Scalia
How To Pick A Secretary Of State
Previous BFIA posts on the topic: Iowa-gop-continues-post-election-voter-harassment-efforts Voter-intimidation-in-iowa-public-hearings-thursday Iowa-secretary-of-state-matt-schultz-may-be-held-accountable-for-voter-purging Contrasting-our-sos-candidates A note from the Anderson for Iowa campaign: By now you’ve probably heard in the news about the growing number of controversies and scandals from Secretary of State Matt Schultz’s … Continue reading
Posted in Vote Fraud, voting rights
Tagged Iowa SOS Candidate Brad Anderson, Iowa vote fraud, Matt Schultz
Sunday Hodgepodge
Should this be The Permanent Democratic Platform? from January 11,1944 but still fresh and still not fulfilled. When the next war ends….. Seeing The Light note to Matt Schultz: It is just as true here as in Wisconsin! In Memory … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Economy, Education, Humor, Jobs, marriage equality, Obamacare, Vote Fraud
Tagged FDR, second bill of rights, Thatcher