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Democracy for New Hampshire is a nonpartisan big-tent organization that promotes grassroots community involvement in the democratic process in New Hampshire. DFNH works to protect the foundations of our democracy and the integrity of our political process and supports fiscally responsible, socially progressive candidates who speak honestly about policy choices.

Editor's note: New Hampshire elections are run exactly the same way and by the same people using the same equipment as described in the article below. Roughly 85% of NH elections are run by LHS Associates-Diebold using their fraud-friendly equipment. NH implements the same level of "checks and balances" in their LHS-Diebold-run elections as are found in Massachusetts: None.

The Massachusetts Special Election For US Senate, By Jonathan Simon, August 27, 2010

Background

On January 19th, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts held a Special Election to fill the Senate seat left open by the death of Senator Edward Kennedy. It would be difficult to overstate the political implications of this election. Because the seat was the 60th for the Democrats, it carried with it the effective balance of power in the Senate: without it, in a dramatically polarized and decidedly uncooperative political environment, the Democrats would not be able to override a GOP filibuster. As the media let Americans know, everything from the shape of healthcare policy to financial regulation, from energy and environmental policy to critical judicial appointments hung in the balance.

Just as significantly, the victory by Republican Scott Brown over supposed shoo-in Martha Coakley was taken and trumpeted as a “sign:” the political calculus for the upcoming general elections in 2010 and 2012 was instantly rewritten, with the anger and unrest that apparently produced Brown’s victory establishing expectations of catastrophic losses for the Democrats in November and beyond. All in all the political impact of this single, under-the-radar state election was seismic, very nearly “presidential.”

The Electoral System

With stakes that high, citizens not only of Massachusetts but of the rest of the United States would hope to find firm basis knowledge, as opposed to mere faith that the votes were accurately counted as cast and that the seating of the certified winner, along with the massive implications alluded to above, at least reflected the will and intent of the voting constituency. Instead, this is what a citizen seeking such knowledge about the Massachusetts Special Election would find:

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Meet Jan Brewer on the stump.

Have been for a while. Remember the "stress test"? Let's refresh our memories.

Wells Fargo Assails TARP, Calls Stress Test ‘Asinine’ (Update2)
By Ari Levy - March 16, 2009 16:12 EDT

March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Wells Fargo & Co. Chairman Richard Kovacevich criticized the U.S. for retroactively adding curbs to the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which he said forced the bank to cut its dividend, and called the administration’s plan for stress-testing banks “asinine.”

Please join
Paul Hodes
Candidate for U.S. Senate

For a
Wake Up Washington Tour
Community Supper!

Where:
American Legion Post 7
Phillips Room
94 Eastern Avenue, Rochester

When:
Thursday, September 2nd
6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

SOURCE: Daily Kos

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"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
- Abraham Lincoln

 Wall Street has a problem.

On the fifth anniversary of hurricane Katrina, President Barack Obama visited New Orleans.  It's very possible that he's unaware that our own Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter was moved to attempt a run for Congress as a direct result of witnessing the incompetent federal response to that disaster.  Having gone to New Orleans to volunteer in the immediate recovery effort, she soon realized that a more radical long-term commitment to good government for "the rest of us" was needed.  And New Hampshire agreed by retiring the rather clueless Jeb Bradley and hiring Carol, the enthusiastic insurgent.

The President's remarks at Xavier University follow:

It is wonderful to be back in New Orleans, and it is a great honor --

    AUDIENCE MEMBER:  We love you!

    AUDIENCE MEMBER:  We can’t see you!

SOURCE: Truthout.by: Robert Reich  |  

Republicans are calling the Democrat's proposal to end the Bush tax cuts on the richest 3 percent a "tax increase," and demagoging that it will hurt the economy and small business. This is baloney, to put it politely. Let me count the ways:

Bush's ten-year tax cut was designed to end this year, so it's not a tax increase.

Ending it for the rich simply returns them to the Clinton tax rate, which was hardly confiscatory (reminder: the Clinton years were damn good for business).

Saturday, September 18th, 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon, a film presentation of “The Day After Peace”, produced by Jeremy Gilley, founder of the International Day of Peace, at the Exeter Public library, Chestnut Street, Exeter, NH.  “The Day After Peace” documents Gilley’s work culminating in a humanitarian effort in Afghanistan with the help of film actor, Jude Law, and other international figures.  The objective of Gilley’s work is to create an annual global ceasefire/non-violence day, and for United Nations participating countries to adopt this day, which is celebrated annually on September 21st.  The film asks the question “Will Gilley silence the cynics

SOURCE: BLACKBOXVOTING.ORG

 - This is the most brutal voter disenfranchisement and election tampering and case we have witnessed yet. See detailed press release below for just a few of the specifics uncovered to date. 

On Aug. 12 2010, at the behest of several local individual citizens, Black Box Voting founder Bev Harris and Florida Fair Elections Coalition (FFEC) founder Susan Pynchon came to Shelby County Tennessee to assist with gathering and analyzing evidence on voter disenfranchisement and voting machine issues in the county's Aug. 5, 2010 election.* We've been here two weeks now. 

Problems in this election disproportionately affected Black voters. Accumulated problems uncovered so far quantify to tens of thousands of votes, in an election where just a few thousand votes separated winners from losers. 

Here is the press release issued by the plaintiffs regarding the lawsuit filed yesterday. The details are startling: 

August 25, 2010 

AUGUST CANDIDATES FORMALLY SUE DUE TO IMPROPRIETIES IN ELECTION 

Ten countywide candidates in the August 5th election have formally filed an election contest in Shelby County Chancery Court requesting injunctive relief. The ten plaintiffs in the suit include certain non-partisan judicial candidates as well as certain Democratic nominees, all of whom competed in the County General Election earlier this month. Based on an inspection and investigation of the Shelby County Election Commission (SCEC) and of August 5th election records, the suit claims that the election process was incurably flawed to the extent that the citizens of Shelby County were denied a free and equal election as required by Article I of the Tennessee Constitution. 

The suit alleges widespread irregularities, improprieties, discrepancies and voting problems so significant as to have affected the outcome of the August election and to have caused the election results to be incurably uncertain. Already known is the massive error already acknowledged by the SCEC and described by the SCEC itself as "unacceptable" where invalid and inaccurate voter eligibility records were provided to polls on Election Day potentially affecting 5,400 voters and turning away thousands. 

This lawsuit is intended to assure that the OTHER substantial and appalling improprieties which occurred in the August election are brought to light, investigated and resolved for all citizens and for every future election. 

The handling and mishandling of the August election by the SCEC is an embarrassment to our county and a violation of every principle on which our country was founded. Regardless of race, party or gender, every citizen is entitled to better and is entitled to an unimpeded and transparent voting process. Our upcoming November election, including the vote on consolidation of Memphis and Shelby County, is important to many, and we intend to do everything in our power, with the approval of the courts, to assure that every citizen's vote counts. None of us should tolerate incompetence or impropriety. 
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For Immediate Release

CONCORD — Gov. John Lynch today announced that five more New Hampshire companies have received Job Training grants in the month of August.

Job Training grants are aimed at keeping good jobs in New Hampshire by helping companies train their workers with new skills to compete in a changing economy. Gov. Lynch made it a priority to reinstate the Job Training Fund, which distributes up to $1 million annually in matching grants to allow companies to train new workers or retrain longtime employees.

SOURCE: NewsDissector

by Danny Schechter

Aren't job losses and foreclosures as important as a "Ground Zero Mosque" (which isn't a mosque, and hasn't been built  and wouldn't be at ground zero?)

We know we live in hard times that are on the verge of getting harder with 500,000 new claims for unemployment last week, a recent record.

The stock market may be over for now as fear and panic drives small investors out. Big corporations hoard  stashes of cash rather then hire workers. The D-Word (depression) is back in play.

SOURCE: The New Yorker

Jane Mayer

On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage. It was the seventieth annual spring gala of American Ballet Theatre, and David H. Koch was being celebrated for his generosity as a member of the board of trustees; he had recently donated $2.5 million toward the company’s upcoming season, and had given many millions before that. Koch received an award while flanked by two of the gala’s co-chairs, Blaine Trump, in a peach-colored gown, and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, in emerald green. Kennedy’s mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, had been a patron of the ballet and, coincidentally, the previous owner of a Fifth Avenue apartment that Koch had bought, in 1995, and then sold, eleven years later, for thirty-two million dollars, having found it too small.

The gala marked the social ascent of Koch, who, at the age of seventy, has become one of the city’s most prominent philanthropists. In 2008, he donated a hundred million dollars to modernize Lincoln Center’s New York State Theatre building, which now bears his name. He has given twenty million to the American Museum of Natural History, whose dinosaur wing is named for him. This spring, after noticing the decrepit state of the fountains outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Koch pledged at least ten million dollars for their renovation. He is a trustee of the museum, perhaps the most coveted social prize in the city, and serves on the board of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where, after he donated more than forty million dollars, an endowed chair and a research center were named for him.

One dignitary was conspicuously absent from the gala: the event’s third honorary co-chair, Michelle Obama. Her office said that a scheduling conflict had prevented her from attending. Yet had the First Lady shared the stage with Koch it might have created an awkward tableau. In Washington, Koch is best known as part of a family that has repeatedly funded stealth attacks on the federal government, and on the Obama Administration in particular.

SOURCE: BBC

Hari Prasad, a researcher in India who obtained an electronic voting machine and demonstrated how it can be tampered with has been arrested. His colleague, Alex Halderman joins Digital Planet to discuss what lies behind the arrest.

The European Parliament has voted 625-28 in support of capping EU banker bonuses, a sign that economic crisis is nevertheless firmly in mind. The degree to which banking employees can draw large pensions was also addressed by the vote. Associated Press reports indicate that any such short-term cash bonuses within the next year will be subject to the decision. It's a move the European Union hopes the rest of the world will follow in kind.

Source for this article: EU banker bonuses capped by European Parliament by Personal Money Store

Bonus advances can be closely monitored by EU

SOURCE: Truthout

(Photo: athrasher)

Monday 23 August 2010

Why did Arizona's two main gubernatorial candidates, Gov. Jan Brewer, former secretary of state/head of elections, who contracted for highly criticized and easily-hacked Diebold and Sequoia ballot scanning systems, and Attorney General (AG) Terry Goddard, with his three-year "criminal investigation" into a 2006 Pima County (Tucson) local election allegedly hacked, according to a whistleblower, do everything in their power for years to stifle polling accountability while expensively fighting enforcement of Arizona's election laws?

EMERGENCY LAWSUIT FILED TO FORCE MARICOPA COUNTY ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT TO FOLLOW THE LAW TO PROTECT UPCOMING ELECTION RESULTS FROM ELECTION FRAUD[[1]].

Pre-election research over the last three weeks (based on the work of AUDIT AZ since 2006) discovered flagrant ILLEGAL violations of Arizona Election Laws [[2]]. The interlocking pattern of deliberate subversion of these security measures indicated below makes manipulation of vote counting easy, thus leaving elections vulnerable to undetectable fraud:

1)       Arizona Election Law requires pollworkers to sign poll tapes at the conclusion of the ballot count.[[3]] Maricopa Elections has removed the signature line and changed pollworker manual to remove instructions for pollworkers to sign the poll tapes printed by the precinct electronic voting machines.[[4]]

      While some New Hampshire newspapers carry first page stories about the State Liquor Commission and the attempt by the Governor to remove the current commission chair, behind the scenes the commission is quietly bringing in some very positive revenue numbers to feed the state’s general fund. 

The Republican goal is to deprive us of our peace of mind. They agitate for agitation's sake and to distract from their more nefarious plots.

If "cleanliness is next to godliness," deprivation is the obverse, longer lasting and with less mess.

Republicans rely on the law to shield their caprice. Lady Justice would not approve is their mantra.

When we refer to our agents of government, the people who run our public corporations, we should also make reference to the agents of private corporations, whose contribution to the public welfare is considerably less and, ipso facto, more easily dispensed with. The notion that private corporations are somehow superior needs to be debunked.

Private corporations are definitely junior to our public ones. Some have gotten too big for their britches.

SOURCE:The Gainesville Sun

Schools are back in session Monday, and school uniforms will be required

By Harriet Daniels
Staff writer

...
The message posted on marquees outside area schools informs everyone that Monday also means the start of the district's new uniform dress code policy....

Students must wear shirts with a collar or school T-shirt of solid color along with solid color pants, shorts, shirts or skorts. Jeans are allowed as long as they are not embellished....

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