JABbering Stooge

Oh great. Just what I need to hear as I am about to go exercise my civic duty:

WINFIELD, W.Va. — Three Putnam County voters say electronic voting machines changed their votes from Democrats to Republicans when they cast early ballots last week.

This is the second West Virginia county where voters have reported this problem. Last week, three voters in Jackson County told The Charleston Gazette their electronic vote for “Barack Obama” kept flipping to “John McCain”.

Yep. The answer to early voting has apparently been found — EARLY CHEATING! *sigh*

And how have the local Rethugs responded to claims of malware disguised as voting machines? Blaming the victim, natch:

In both counties, Republicans are responsible for overseeing elections. Both county clerks said the problem is isolated.

They also blamed voters for not being more careful.

“People make mistakes more than machines,” said Jackson County Clerk Jeff Waybright.

What a crock of shit! Have these idiots even seen the long list of problems with electronic voting machines? Hell, just eSlate, the system we use around here, is chock full of its own problems.

Naturally, we won’t hear much more than a peep out of the “librul” media about this. To them, we’re the tinfoil-hatters — the real problem is ACORN’s Grand Conspiracy to Fluoridate the Water Supply Steal the Election With Votes From Illegal Immigrants™, doncha’ know?

But don’t take my word for it, educate yourself!

Read the whole thing.

Sidebar: Why, oh why can’t our “librul” media do even 1/10,000,000th as good a job as The Guardian?

Only in the unhinged minds of the most deranged wingnuts could a spoiled registration form rate** of less than 1% imply that 10,000,000,000,000,000% of ACORN-produced voter registrations are blatant frauds.

* With apologies to Ron Suskind.

** Spoiled Registration Form Rate = [(# of fraudulent registration forms + # of erroneously filled out registration forms) / total # of ACORN-produced registrations] * 100

Holy crap, Randi Rhodes has been en fuego regarding the Angry Right’s™ ACORN Derangement Syndrome! I hope someone caught the audio!

Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome — good government. They want everybody to vote. I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

— Paul Weyrich, Dallas, Fall 1980

The stench of flop sweat is sinking in heavily on the right. Even after their heinous, un-American, hypocritical smears of Obama’s character, the dog-whistle stirring up of lynch mobs in Clearwater, Florida, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Jacksonville, Florida, and the obsessive-compulsive lying about Obama’s associations by a nationally-syndicated propagandist, Obama still maintains a nearly insurmountable lead in both the national and state-by-state polls. If these trends continue, Obama will be the next Commander-in-Chief come November 4.

Here’s the race as it stands now:

Hence, the concerted effort by wingnuts in recent days to whip up ACORN Derangement Syndrome among their hate-filled lemmings. it’s depressing and disgusting, but sadly, hardly surprising.

Fortunately for the reality-based community, dday ably calls bullshit on the whole sordid mess.