Saturday squirrel blogging
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @4:45 PM
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2.10.04  |
They debate, we decide
If you want to participate in the November 2 election, make sure you're registered. And hurry: deadlines are fast approaching:
(If you're planning to vote for Nader, you can have the same effect by not bothering to register or vote.)
And now, a brief summary of last night's debate, in convenient animated form:
And here's a summary in text form: Not since Richard Nixon sweated in black & white has a presidential debate been so decisive.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @4:38 PM
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1.10.04 |
Spin it yourself
Watch tonight's presidential debates on CSPAN, and provide your own commentary and/or whatever other accoutrements you might want.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @4:59 PM
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30.9.04 |
Look, Mom, I'm a module!
Got a personalized My Yahoo! page? If so, you can now get The Dagley Dagley Daily in convenient modular form.
If you don't have a My Yahoo! page, click here to set one up. It's free, easy, and with lots more features than every before.
To add this blog to your personalized content, just click on that little box with the Y! there in the upper lefthand column on this page.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @5:44 PM
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29.9.04 |
Sunshine, on a cloudy day
Former hurricane Jeanne is passing over us today; fortunately she doesn't have much energy left, just dark clouds and rain. This sunshine is from Sunday evening, just before sunset (and moonrise):
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @5:35 PM
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28.9.04 |
Monkeying around with electronic voting
Even Fox News is reporting this one: the voter advocates at Black Box Voting have come out with a video showing a chimpanzee deleting the audit file from a Diebold touchscreen voting machine.
In a related development, today a Federal Appeals Court judge in Florida ordered that a case challenging electronic voting must go to trial. The case involves the 15 Florida counties in which no paper trail was planned. Without a paper trail, recounts are impossible, charged Rep. Robert Wexler, the lead plaintiff in the case.
Black Box Voting's Bev Harris reports this comment from a news service reporter who may not be quite as intelligent as the chimp:
"This isn't realistic. You'd notice if a chimpanzee was in the elections office."
Diebold has previously claimed its voting machines' audit logs could not be changed "by human intervention," something that unnamed reporter might still believe.
Meanwhile, in a Washington Post op-ed piece today, former U.S. President and veteran election observer Jimmy Carter said Florida may be in for a repeat of its 2000 voting problems:
"The disturbing fact is that a repetition of the problems of 2000 now seems likely, even as many other nations are conducting elections that are internationally certified to be transparent, honest and fair."
International election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and Global Express are already in the U.S. to monitor our elections.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @4:03 PM
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27.9.04 |
Attention, swing-state voters!
Need a little help around the house? Michael Moore may be coming to your town:
"I have decided to go to every battleground state in the country and do whatever it takes to get out the vote. I will do your laundry, I will clean your house, I will give you a year's supply of beer nuts if you will commit to me to go to the polls on Tuesday, November 2."
He calls it The Slacker Uprising Tour, "a coast-to-coast effort to bring the non-voting majority out of hibernation and kick some political butt. My goal is to get as many of the 100 million non-voters in America as I can to give voting a try -- just this once. I want at least 56% of all eligible voters to vote and thus set a modern-day turnout record."
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @6:56 PM
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26.9.04 |
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