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 Obama’s First Win: Dixville Notch, N.H.Posted on Nov 4, 2008
All 21 eligible voters in Dixville Notch, N.H., became the first in the nation to vote at the polls just after midnight Monday, following a time-honored tradition, and the win went to Barack Obama with 15 votes over John McCain’s six.
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By southwest, November 4, 2008 at 2:51 pm #
I mean, other than show that Obama has support with rural, white voters in 2 townships, it has no bearing on how NH will vote.
It’s a good sign, but I don’t think anyone can read anything into it.
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By Outraged, November 4, 2008 at 1:31 pm #
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Obama will get the popular vote, but not the whitehouse. Your votes don’t count. There is no such thing as elections, it’s all a fools game.
Report thisPersonally, I can not choose between facist A (Obama) and Nazi B (McCain) so I am just trying to hide from it all.
By Blackspeare, November 4, 2008 at 12:46 pm #
Dixville Notch is an omen of things to come——BHO will win by one of the largest landslides ever. Oh, did I mention it is always the economy?!
Report thisBy jobart, November 4, 2008 at 12:17 pm #
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It is my greatest hope that tomorrow’s headlines, across the nation’s newspapers, read…..
“ AMERICA WINS !!! AMERICA WINS !!! ”
Report thisBy Greg Bacon, November 4, 2008 at 9:33 am #
Halloween might be over, but there’s still one in costume, scaring the hell out of voters, a MARGE TARTAGLIONE, Philadelphia Voting Commission.
If you ever wondered what arrogance looked like in the flesh, Marge will show you an excellent example, just click on the link.
http://www.americannewsproject.com/node/166
From a story on Democracy Now:
On Eve of Election Day, Is the Nation’s Voting System Ready? Reports of Irregularities Pour in from Across US in Record Early Voting
It involves shunting the data that comes from the website for the Secretary of State—I mean, the election returns—taking those election returns as they come to the website in real-time and shunting them to a computer somewhere else. What happened in 2004 was the election returns from Ken Blackwell’s website were shunted to a computer in a basement in Chattanooga, Tennessee, under the control of a very partisan private company to which Connell was connected. The data was shunted to this strange computer in Chattanooga and then directed back to the Secretary of State’s website. As Connell—I mean, sorry, as Spoonamore has said, the only purpose of doing this Man in the Middle thing is to commit crime.
Welcome to Democracy Now!
MARK CRISPIN MILLER: Thanks for having me back, Amy.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, let’s start where I haven’t seen much mention, and that is this man, Mike Connell, in Ohio, testifying. Who is he? What is his relevance to the big day, to Election Day tomorrow?
MARK CRISPIN MILLER: Yeah, this event in a courtroom in Columbus may be one of the most important things to happen in this whole election and may be one of the most important things to happen in American history. I mean, this sounds hyperbolic, I know, but it is true.
Mike Connell is—has been named as Karl Rove’s computer guru since 2000. The lawyers in the case refer to Connell as a high-IQ Forrest Gump, because he’s been on the scene of every dubious election we’ve had over the last eight years, starting with Florida 2000.
Now, he has been named by a man named Stephen Spoonamore, S-P-O-O-N-A-M-O-R-E, who’s a very unusual and particularly unimpeachable kind of whistleblower. He’s a conservative Republican; he’s a former McCain supporter. But above all, he is a renowned and highly successful expert at the detection of computer fraud. He works for big banks. He works for foreign governments, the Secret Service. His job is to figure out how computers are used to steal money or information or votes. Well, he’s named a lot of people in the Bush-Cheney election subversion conspiracy. He has worked with them. He knows them personally. And months ago, he named Mike Connell and his company GovTech Solutions as having played a crucial role in the—basically the electronic subversion of the vote in Ohio in 2004. And Spoonamore has actually described the computer architecture that was used to do this.
Now, on the strength of this testimony, the lawyers in the case had the judge issue a subpoena to Mike Connell last week. Connell defied the subpoena; he was in contempt. Late last week, the lawyers filed a motion to compel compliance, and to everyone’s surprise and delight, the judge ordered Connell to appear today and to be deposed for two hours about his role in this longstanding electronic plot, basically, to flip votes towards the Republicans.
Some of this deposition will be sealed, and I have to tell you the part that’ll be sealed. Apparently, Rove has threatened Connell. He told him that if Connell did not take the fall for this whole thing, the Department of Justice would start investigating Connell’s wife Heather for improper lobbying practices. Now, that part of the deposition we’re not going to know the answers to. But what’s astonishing to me…...
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