The article is now out and can be seen at the link below:

Can You Count on Voting Machines?

"Bugs in the Machines"

Editor & Publisher's editor Greg Mitchell, has tipped off The BRAD BLOG late this afternoon, that the New York Times Magazine is set to run a "massive" cover-story this Sunday, on the entire e-voting disaster titled "The Bugs in the Machines."

...According to Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman via Bradblog

...With the news of Chris Dodd's huge jump here in the dKos community...

            2007                                     2006
           Oct Sept Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan Dec Jul

Edwards      31  39  34  36  40  39  42  38  26  35  28  15
Dodd         21   7   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Obama        16  21  29  27  22  24  25  26  25  28  28
H. Clinton    9  11   8   9   6   6   3   3   4   4   5   2

...I will tell you now that we just don't seem to learn.

By Matthew Cardinale, News Editor, Atlanta Progressive News (September 28, 2006)

(APN) ATLANTA - Top Diebold corporation officials ordered workers to install secret files to Georgia's electronic voting machines shortly before the 2002 Elections, at least two whistleblowers are now asserting, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

Former Diebold official Chris Hood told his story concerning the secret "patch" to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for Kennedy's second article on electronic voting in this week's Rolling Stone Magazine.

Hood's claims corroborate a second whistleblower who spoke with Black Box Voting and Wired News in 2003.

...Dr. Phillips holds a Ph.D. in geomorphology from the University of Oregon. He is a professional hydrologist and is well versed in standard techniques of statistical analysis, with special expertise in spotting anomalous data.

These are all rich, white, Republicans with no family in the slaughter.  Nineteen of them today decided that the murder of American troops is...well Amnesty-worthy.

After all 2500 is only a number.  I know cuz Tony Snow-job tells me so. [Link http://www.aina.org/news/2006062111935.htm]

On Buzzflash.com:
by Maureen Farrell

...Thanks to Mr. Jim Glover. For in his essay "Let us Pray -- for Bush Relief here he has solved the puzzle.  Now we can truly "move on".

...He gets right to the crux:

Bob Koehler...
Andrew Greeley...and the list begins.

"How long can Bush spin big lies into truth on Iraq war?"

Teaser:
"Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?"

ROBERT C. KOEHLER
For release 4/21/05
DEMOCRACY'S ABU GHRAIB

The entire essay [here http://commonwonders.com] Teaser:

"That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on." - Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

What if it could happen here?

A teaser:

" By late summer, 2006, the United States is in a desperate condition. Following the collapse of the dollar in international currency markets, there has been a cascade of business failures and mortgage foreclosures, and a precipitous rise in unemployment, as the US economy slides inexorably into a depression. Meanwhile, the June 2005 American attack on Iran and the continuing war in Iraq has made the United States an international pariah state; thus the community of nations shows no inclination whatever to rescue the United States from its economic collapse."

In a spectacular leap forward for preventative medicine it was announced today that "German Measles" has been eradicated in the United States with Canada soon to follow.

By Michael Keefer:

Conclusion:

"But let's be realistic about what it means when, with the willing complicity of all the major outlets of the corporate media, a single corporatist party controls the executive functions of the central government, including all of the security apparatus of a thoroughly militarized state, both houses of the legislature, and the judiciary--and what it means when this same party, having acquired executive power in 2000 through electoral fraud and a judicial coup d'état, and having confirmed its control of the legislature through the corrupt midterm elections of 2002, then provides a convincing demonstration in 2004 of its power to turn what should have been a landslide electoral defeat into a dubious but effectively unassailable victory."

If you send one well-written, nicely articulated rant...er...(excuse me) "Letter to the Editor" you might as well send it to most all media outlets

If other Kossacks have bigger and better lists lets get them Posted.

This can be a MAJOR tool in projecting our reformed, progressive messages.  Just cut and paste maybe a quarter of them into the cc: of your mail client and then send the next batch, and the next, etc.

It got me to thinking though that if we had a place on dKos, perhaps in the Dkosopedia with an exhausitve listing of press contacts for all news outlets ... everytime we email a Letter to the Editor, or a plea for press coverage, on any particular issue (I have been begging for voting "irregularities" help for two weeks from Maureen Dowd, Wapo, NYTimes, and others), or just need to get a message out...we could be VERY effective if we had a "cut and Paste" library of press contacts.

Now PLEASE...this is not a spam-spreader, so don't flame me on those grounds.

Does anybody else here think this might be a terrific idea for helping the Kossian community to become an even more potent force playing progressive offense?

[Rove]...But Mr. President we are getting our asses kicked.

[Bush]  So I can see.

[Rove]  Its time for Plan B.

[Bush]  I dunno...Jeez what if it doesn't work?

[Rove]  Well if it keeps going like this we are gonna get slaughtered.  That asshole is even close in Virginia and the Carolinas.

[Bush]  God...the Carolinas?

[Rove]  And the exits show he's up by four clicks in Florida AND Ohio.  I think we gotta give `em Pennsylvania.  Nothing we can do there I'm afraid.  Look...think about your Dad....do you really want to lose this thing?  Can you imagine that asshole sleeping in your bed?