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GOP dirty tricks

This is just a brief sample of dirty tricks, but it seems like similar activities occurred in every state. If you have a story about shady GOP politicking send it to us and we'll post it here.

New Hampshire

Democrats allege dirty tricks by GOP
The state Democratic Party is collecting information about what it says are deceptive phone calls being made to voters by Republicans. In a Democratic Party conference call with reporters, a Concord woman said she was called Tuesday by a man who said he was phoning "regarding the Democratic committee." READ

Democrats condemn false positive ads
Democrats complained yesterday that a series of “false positive ads” were being made in attempts to improperly influence state elections. READ

Texas

Bogus Kirk phone message circulating
An automated telephone message circulating today is urging voters to cast their ballots for Ron Kirk because he supports same-sex marriages and gay adoptions... READ

Florida

MCBRIDE CAMPAIGN DENOUNCES ‘DIRTY TRICK’ PHONE CALLS READ

McBride: Campaign calls misleading
Democrat Bill McBride's gubernatorial campaign accused Republican Gov. Jeb Bush's campaign Monday of producing a misleading telephone message that implies McBride supports gay marriage. READ

Nevada

Late-night calls foul District 9 contest
When hundreds of Senate District 9 voters received middle-of-the-night calls Wednesday touting the candidacy of Democrat Terry Lamuraglia, those awakened were not amused. READ

Recounts, "Glitches", Anomalies

Alabama

Attorney general stops recount move
Republican Attorney General Bill Pryor issued an opinion Friday that said Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman cannot get the recount he wants of all the ballots cast in Tuesday's governor's race. Siegelman's chief campaign lawyer, Joe Espy, called the opinion a blatant Republican attempt to hide Tuesday's true election results to ensure that Bob Riley becomes governor. READ

Siegelman demanded a recount Thursday. He pointed in particular to Baldwin County, where elections officials reduced his tally by about 7,000 votes late Tuesday - enough to give Riley the victory. READ

Florida

Florida Finds 103,000 'Lost' Votes
Just when Florida finally seemed to have carried out a flub-free election, supervisors in one county discovered they had failed to count more than 103,000 ballots in some tallies. READ

Texas

Chip glitch hands victory to wrong candidate READ

Winning vote totals uncanny in Comal
What are the odds? Let's just say it's the proverbial "astronomical." Comal County elections officials noticed an extreme oddity after the final votes were tallied in Tuesday's general election. READ

Who Makes the Voting Machines?

What we have here is a number of elements coming together: a political party that has proven itself to place no limits on its criminality when it comes to the manipulation of elections; the timely closure of the media's exit polling service, whose polling results were wildly at odds with the announced results; an alleged dropping of the ball by pretty much all of the pollsters across the country who had been taking the pulse of voters in the weeks leading up to the election; and the introduction of paperless, touch-screen voting systems that lend themselves very nicely to unseen and undetectable manipulations. READ

2002 Elections: Republican Voting Machines, Election Irregularities, and "Way-Off" Polling Results

"The Republicans will never give up their voting machines," said a top Republican party official to Charlie Matulka, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in Nebraska. This statement was in response to Charlie's very public protest against the conflict-of-interest inherent in the candidacy of Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE). Hagel has held top executive positions (and still has investments) in companies that owned the machines that counted the vote in Nebraska this election and last. READ

Election 2002 Gets a D+ Grade

This election cycle wasn’t as “glitch-free” as most news outlets reported, according to VoteWatch.US, an online repository created to flag voting problems in America’s elections. The site documented disturbing trends in America’s election process, with over 600 posts that include widespread voting machine malfunctions, vote counts that didn’t make sense or changed inexplicably, phantom precincts, and outright intimidation at the polling place. READ

GHOST PRECINCTS; NUMBERS THAT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE; COMPUTER COUNTING PROBLEMS; VOTING MACHINE MALFUNCTIONS

The companies that make the voting machines cite accuracy of 99 percent or better in their sales presentations, but have admitted to errors of 20 percent or more when caught. Most errors are discovered by local elections officials or candidates who are alarmed by discrepancies. Sometimes, a lone patriotic voter will spot the error and make noise until someone does something. More often, no one does anything. READ

Who makes the vote-counting machines?

This is an article about just three things: disclosure, conflict of interest and potential for manipulation. It is not a conspiracy theory or a political point of view. I think you'll agree with me: We don't care who wins the election, as long as it's who was VOTED FOR. READ

STOLEN ELECTION: links to many accounts and stories READ

Diebold - The face of modern ballot tampering
You can't vote them out if....You never voted them in. The lack of any exit polling on November 5 has been oddly ignored by the media... With no exit polls, there was no other feedback to conflict with the "official" results, this allowed the Diebold touch screen machines to change the way election fraud is carried out. READ

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