It Gets A Little Closer
The Weasel Knows Now: There Is No Way Out; It Is Trapped On His Head.
(Original Photo: Shannon Stapleton / Reuters)
Do Not Open Your Mouth When Feasting On The Body Of Your Enemy
(Original Photo: James Keivom / New York Daily News)
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In other news, NASA has released a new HD video of the Aurora Borealis taken from the International Space Station, as it orbits Planet Trump -- or Clintonia, depending on how November goes.
One item of note -- and I would get down on your knees and thank whatever This Universe Is About for this -- it seems much less likely that Grand Turtlebear Greg Stillson of the Church Of I Kill You ! will be made Sainted Leader.
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MEHR, MIT DER SCRUB: From Greg Palast, writing about stuff:
Francesca
Rheannon, whom you may know as the host of Writers’ Voice radio, did
the civic thing by volunteering to work the polls in a town east of New
York City.
“I just got off my 17 hour shift as an election official. In my
election district, out of 166 Democratic voters, 39 were forced to file
affidavit ballots. The last [election] I worked in, exactly ONE voter
needed an affidavit ballot.”
That’s nearly one of four voters. Why? Their names had gone missing from the voter rolls.
An affidavit ballot (called a “provisional” ballot in most other
states) is a kind of placebo ballot. You get to pretend to vote – but
the chance it will actually be counted is …well, good luck. If your
name is wrongly removed, kiss your vote – affidavit or not—goodbye.
Rheannon’s experience was hardly unique. In Brooklyn alone, over
125,000 names were quietly scrubbed from the voter rolls in the five
months leading up to the primary.
To put it in prospective, the number of voters purged equals about half of
the number who got to vote. Scott Stringer, the New York City
Comptroller will now audit the Elections Board--now that the election is
over. Hey thanks, Scott.
Neal Rosenstein, the lead voting rights attorney for the New York
Public Interest Research Group, which plans legal action, notes that
part of the problem is that partisan hacks sit on the Elections board in
New York—hacks from both parties.
Brooklyn is under the control of the Kings County Democratic Party,
one of the last of the big city machines. Would they attack their
opponents’ voter registrations? I don’t have to guess: in my wasted
younger days, I was in the Brooklyn County elections office with the
hacks where we were assigned by the Party to challenge voters’
signatures en masse. (I wouldn’t and nearly lost my state job.)
Am I saying the machine “fixed” the election for Hillary Clinton?
Without further investigation, it would be irresponsible for me to
pronounce judgment. Some of the purged may have moved, some have died.
But those who waited in line only to fill out affidavit ballots are
unlikely to be deceased.
If the Machine had been aware of the mass purge underway, would they have stopped it? As they say in Brooklyn, Fahgeddabouddit.
- See more at: http://www.gregpalast.com/new-york-voting-fiasco-just-the-warm-up-for-the-november-game/#sthash.6Euo4H9q.dpufFrancesca Rheannon, whom you may know as the host of
Writers’ Voice radio, did the civic thing by volunteering to work the
polls in a town east of New York City.
[A polling station worker in Brooklyn immediately after the New York Democratic primary noted], “I just got off my 17 hour shift as an election official. In my
election district, out of 166 Democratic voters, 39 were forced to file
affidavit ballots. The last [election] I worked in, exactly ONE voter
needed an affidavit ballot.”
That’s nearly one of four voters. Why? Their names [were] missing from the voter rolls.
An affidavit ballot (called a “provisional” ballot in most other
states) is a kind of placebo ballot. You get to pretend to vote – but
the chance it will actually be counted is …well, good luck. If your
name is wrongly removed, kiss your vote – affidavit or not—goodbye.
... In Brooklyn alone, over
125,000 names were quietly scrubbed from the voter rolls in the five
months leading up to the primary. To put it in prospective, the number of voters purged equals about
half of the number who got to vote...
Brooklyn is under the control of the Kings County Democratic Party,
one of the last of the big city machines. Would they attack their
opponents’ voter registrations? I don’t have to guess: in my wasted
younger days, I was in the Brooklyn County elections office with the
hacks where we were assigned by the Party to challenge voters’
signatures en masse. (I wouldn’t and nearly lost my state job.)
Am I saying the machine “fixed” the election for Hillary Clinton?
Without further investigation, it would be irresponsible for me to
pronounce judgment. Some of the purged may have moved, some have died.
But those who waited in line only to fill out affidavit ballots are
unlikely to be deceased.
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Francesca
Rheannon, whom you may know as the host of Writers’ Voice radio, did
the civic thing by volunteering to work the polls in a town east of New
York City.
“I just got off my 17 hour shift as an election official. In my
election district, out of 166 Democratic voters, 39 were forced to file
affidavit ballots. The last [election] I worked in, exactly ONE voter
needed an affidavit ballot.”
- See more at: http://www.gregpalast.com/new-york-voting-fiasco-just-the-warm-up-for-the-november-game/#sthash.6Euo4H9q.dpuf
Francesca
Rheannon, whom you may know as the host of Writers’ Voice radio, did
the civic thing by volunteering to work the polls in a town east of New
York City.
“I just got off my 17 hour shift as an election official. In my
election district, out of 166 Democratic voters, 39 were forced to file
affidavit ballots. The last [election] I worked in, exactly ONE voter
needed an affidavit ballot.”
That’s nearly one of four voters. Why? Their names had gone missing from the voter rolls.
An affidavit ballot (called a “provisional” ballot in most other
states) is a kind of placebo ballot. You get to pretend to vote – but
the chance it will actually be counted is …well, good luck. If your
name is wrongly removed, kiss your vote – affidavit or not—goodbye.
Rheannon’s experience was hardly unique. In Brooklyn alone, over
125,000 names were quietly scrubbed from the voter rolls in the five
months leading up to the primary.
To put it in prospective, the number of voters purged equals about half of
the number who got to vote. Scott Stringer, the New York City
Comptroller will now audit the Elections Board--now that the election is
over. Hey thanks, Scott.
Neal Rosenstein, the lead voting rights attorney for the New York
Public Interest Research Group, which plans legal action, notes that
part of the problem is that partisan hacks sit on the Elections board in
New York—hacks from both parties.
Brooklyn is under the control of the Kings County Democratic Party,
one of the last of the big city machines. Would they attack their
opponents’ voter registrations? I don’t have to guess: in my wasted
younger days, I was in the Brooklyn County elections office with the
hacks where we were assigned by the Party to challenge voters’
signatures en masse. (I wouldn’t and nearly lost my state job.)
Am I saying the machine “fixed” the election for Hillary Clinton?
Without further investigation, it would be irresponsible for me to
pronounce judgment. Some of the purged may have moved, some have died.
But those who waited in line only to fill out affidavit ballots are
unlikely to be deceased.
If the Machine had been aware of the mass purge underway, would they have stopped it? As they say in Brooklyn, Fahgeddabouddit.
- See more at: http://www.gregpalast.com/new-york-voting-fiasco-just-the-warm-up-for-the-november-game/#sthash.6Euo4H9q.dpuf
Francesca
Rheannon, whom you may know as the host of Writers’ Voice radio, did
the civic thing by volunteering to work the polls in a town east of New
York City.
“I just got off my 17 hour shift as an election official. In my
election district, out of 166 Democratic voters, 39 were forced to file
affidavit ballots. The last [election] I worked in, exactly ONE voter
needed an affidavit ballot.”
That’s nearly one of four voters. Why? Their names had gone missing from the voter rolls.
An affidavit ballot (called a “provisional” ballot in most other
states) is a kind of placebo ballot. You get to pretend to vote – but
the chance it will actually be counted is …well, good luck. If your
name is wrongly removed, kiss your vote – affidavit or not—goodbye.
Rheannon’s experience was hardly unique. In Brooklyn alone, over
125,000 names were quietly scrubbed from the voter rolls in the five
months leading up to the primary.
To put it in prospective, the number of voters purged equals about half of
the number who got to vote. Scott Stringer, the New York City
Comptroller will now audit the Elections Board--now that the election is
over. Hey thanks, Scott.
Neal Rosenstein, the lead voting rights attorney for the New York
Public Interest Research Group, which plans legal action, notes that
part of the problem is that partisan hacks sit on the Elections board in
New York—hacks from both parties.
Brooklyn is under the control of the Kings County Democratic Party,
one of the last of the big city machines. Would they attack their
opponents’ voter registrations? I don’t have to guess: in my wasted
younger days, I was in the Brooklyn County elections office with the
hacks where we were assigned by the Party to challenge voters’
signatures en masse. (I wouldn’t and nearly lost my state job.)
Am I saying the machine “fixed” the election for Hillary Clinton?
Without further investigation, it would be irresponsible for me to
pronounce judgment. Some of the purged may have moved, some have died.
But those who waited in line only to fill out affidavit ballots are
unlikely to be deceased.
If the Machine had been aware of the mass purge underway, would they have stopped it? As they say in Brooklyn, Fahgeddabouddit.
- See more at: http://www.gregpalast.com/new-york-voting-fiasco-just-the-warm-up-for-the-november-game/#sthash.6Euo4H9q.dpuf
