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“Election falsification” and other voting issues in Ohio (updated)

Mar 11, 2008

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Update, March 27: The Columbus Dispatch reports statewide officials say prosecution for Limbaugh is very unlikely: “lying through your teeth and being stupid isn’t a crime.” Ari Melber’s Limbaugh’s Lying Voters Under Investigation on The Nation’s Campaign Matters blog has a lot more. Kim Zetter’s The Mysterious Case of Ohio’s Voting Machines, on Wired’s THREAT…

Community defense vs. trolls in the One Million Strong for Barack Facebook group

Mar 3, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Like a lot of political sites these days, the Barack Obama Facebook page and One Million Strong for Barack group have been suffering from an infestation of trolls and hate speech. Obama supporters, like others, use Facebook to help with “get out the vote” work (for example posting links to information about polling places) and…

Voting rights victories in LA County and Texas!

Feb 27, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Update, March 6: democracy largely (albeit imperfectly) prevailed in the LA County mess; 47,153 â€œdouble bubbleâ€ votes were counted in Los Angeles County. What about Ohio? We shall see … Julia Rosen’s Victory post yesterday on Courage Campaign’s blog announced Dean Logan’s agreement to count every possible LA County decline-to-state ballot, and followup mail from…

Facebook: censoring political speech

Feb 19, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional, social computing, social sciences, Tales from the Net

Update on February 22: How to respond when Facebook censors your political speech is up on Tales from the Net and Wired’s How-to Wiki and links back to comments in this thread. Alas, the Facebook Barack Obama discussion board was deleted on February 20, so many of the links here go off to oblivion. If…

“Double Bubble Trouble”: Massive voter disenfranchisement in California — and Washington?

Feb 7, 2008

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jon

in political

The LA Registrar of Voters says it may not be possible to determine voter intent! Please sign Courage Campaign’s “Count every vote” petition asking for a full recount! 25,000 signatures so far; latest update and some discussion about “intent” on Courage Campaign’s page here. PeteTV has a video and transcript at So this is what…

Choosing hope over fear: Obama ’08

Feb 5, 2008

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jon

in Personal, political

A lot of people have written great posts on why they support Barack Obama and his campaign; so I’ll keep it quick, and link out to others who have taken the time to give more details and say things better. A lot of people say “they’re no different on the issues”. I disagree. There are…

“An experiment in community information gathering”

Jan 27, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional, social computing

I thought the Clinton Attacks Obama wiki was a great idea the first time I heard about it, and it’s steadily grown since then.Â Here’s the welcome message: This is an experiment in community information gathering. My name is BaratundeÂ Thurston. I’m a comedian, writer and social media junkie. As a contributor for JackÂ &Â JillÂ Politics, I’ve seen…

Why the New Hampshire recount is important

Jan 14, 2008

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jon

in political

There are a couple of excellent posts up on why even though there are plausible explanations for the discrepancies in candidates’ results between hand-counted and machine-counted precincts, the recount in the New Hampshire primary is a good thing. In Off the Bus on the Huffington Post, after giving some background on the vulnerabilities of the…

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