BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

Two Ohio voters, including Domino's pizza worker Christopher Barkley , claimed yesterday that they were hounded by the community-activist group ACORN to register to vote several times, even though they made it clear they'd already signed up. Barkley estimated he'd registered to vote "10 to 15" times after canvassers for ACORN, whose political wing has endorsed Barack Obama, relentlessly pursued him and others. Claims such as his have sparked election officials to probe ACORN. "I kept getting approached by folks who asked me to register," Barkley said. "They'd ask me if I was registered. I'd say yes, and they'd ask me to do it [register] again. "Some of them were getting paid to collect names. That was their sob story, and I bought it," he said. Barkley is one of at least three people who have been subpoenaed by the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections as part of a wider inquiry into possible voter fraud by ACORN. The group seeks ...

CAN WE GET THIS RIGHT BEFORE 2008? This is, in my estimation, the "duh" news. We all knew it. Mark Crispin Miller (whom I've had the priviledge of hearing speak twice now) got this all sorted out and wrote a great book about it: Fooled Again. Yet there's still problems with voter registration & voting machine counts - ad infinitum. This is the 21st Century right? Most of us have a computer in the house and probably about 80% of those have some blog that they tweak and toy with on a daily basis. Dell and Microsoft and H-P dominate the market. So, what's the problem? Is the I.T. Desk in Ohio just overwhelmed and underpaid? Come on, people. Get it RIGHT. This is America! Isn't it? Ohio Secretary of State confirms 2004 election could have been stolen by Harvey Wasserman Ohio's Secretary of State announced this morning that a $1.9 million official study shows that "critical security failures" are embedded throughout the voting systems in t...