BRAD BLOG: Elections Officials Gone Wild (and to Jail!) and American "Democracy" Spreads...

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Accountability and "Elections Officials Gone Wild" continues...Even as American "democracy" threatens France... Bon chance, mes amis! -- Brad

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Why Nobody Should Ever Have to Trust an Elections Official: Tony Anchundo Reports to Jail
Former Monterey County Registrar of Voters Heads to Jail on 43 Criminal Counts, Stole More Than $80,000 in Tax Dollars from County
Once Told Us We Must Have 'Trust and Faith in Elections Officials, Or In This Case, Me'...

While he was still the 13-year Monterey County, CA, Registrar of Voters, Tony Anchundo once told us live on air that "There is obviously going to have to be some trust and faith in the elections official, or in this case, it's me."

On Monday, the disgraced Anchundo reported to jail after pleading "no contest" last December to 43 criminal counts of forgery, misapplication of funds, embezzlement, falsification of accounts, and grand theft...

COMPLETE REPORT:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4362

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Bob Bennett, Ohio GOP Head and Last Holdout on Cuyahoga County Election Board, Suspended by Brunner

New Charges Announced Against Chair of BoE Who Refused to Resign: He Allegedly Ordered $15k PR Contract Awarded to 'GOP Spokesperson'

Ohio's Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner cleaned out the last dead-ender from the Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Board of Elections today. That would be the chairperson of the BoE and the head of Ohio's Republican Party, Bob Bennett.

Bennett was the last of the four directors of the Board of Elections (supposedly two Democrats and two Republicans) to leave the board of the state's most Democratic-leaning county. The other three resigned after requested by Brunner in the wake of the convictions of two Cuyahoga Elections Officials for rigging the 2004 Presidential Election recount, a raft of disastrously run elections and a new criminal investigation into malfeasance at the county election board. The new investigation includes the early printing of absentee ballot results and an unexplained network cable left attached to the central tabulator overnight.

According to a statement posted to the SoS website, Brunner notified Bennett today about his suspension in writing, and has also announced yet another new charge against him...

FULL REPORT: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4363

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France Fears American-Style 'Kafkaesque Balloting' on New Electronic Voting Machines
First Presidential Race to Use Paperless Voting Draws, Fear, Protests, Florida Comparisons, ES&S Spokesliars...

Dear People of France: Welcome to our nightmare...

“I don’t want to lecture America. But we don’t want France to fall into the same Kafkaesque balloting as happened in the United States,” the spokesperson for the French Presidential candidate said.

“We have an extreme amount of confidence in our machines in France...Our machines have proven themselves in thousands of elections in the United States and elsewhere," the ES&S spokesperson lied...

FULL REPORT: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4364

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Toon of the Moment...



...AND AN ADDITIONAL THOUGHT:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4366

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