Posted by The Mudflats on May 5, 2012 · 18 Comments
Brad Friedman, an award-winning investigative journalist and expert on issues of election integrity, and the Diebold AccuVote system used in the recent Anchorage Municipal election, had comments about inaccuracies told by the Election Commissioner Gwen Mathew at last night’s meeting of the Assembly to certify the election. His outrage, and call for both Mathew, and Deputy Clerk Jacqueline Duke to be removed from their posts immediately, is a sentiment shared by a growing number of Anchorage residents who are becoming more informed regarding their ineptitude and outright misinformation. Here are Friedman’s comments after watching Mathew’s testimony at Thursdays Assembly meeting,…
Category Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Mayoral Race, Anchorage School Board, Election 2012, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Skulduggery, Strategery · Tags Anchorage Election Commission, Anchorage Municipal Election, Brad Friedman, BradBlog, Diebold, Diebold Accuvote, Gwen Mathew
Posted by Jeanne Devon on April 24, 2012 · 24 Comments
by Linda Kellen Biegel Jeanne did so much work on the first Election Commission Meeting, I felt like Monday was my turn to show up at the continuation. So, I packed my daughter in the car (if one can actually pack a 14-year-old) and headed out. We got there in time to beat the rush hour so we got a parking space in the City Hall lot (yay). I saw several media vehicles there. Morrigan kept the radio on in the car and I ran upstairs to Rm 830, the Mayor’s Conference Room. When I walked in, I saw Jacqueline…
Category Alaska, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Mayoral Race, Baffle it, Bang it, Election 2012, Municipality of Anchorage · Tags Anchorage Election Commission, Anchorage Municipal Election 2012, Barbara Gruenstein, Brad Friedman, Diebold memory card seals, Ernie Hall, Jacqueline Duke, Jeanne Devon, Linda Kellen-Biegel, Melissa Green
Posted by Jeanne Devon on April 17, 2012 · 31 Comments
By Brad Friedman [Read the entire excellent article at BradBlog.com. Extensive excerpts below] …And then there are the election officials of Anchorage, Alaska, where, on April 3rd, there was another disastrous election, held on Diebold op-scan systems, in a state becoming known for its disastrous elections. “Those are amazing machines – utterly amazing,” Anchorage Election Commissioner Gwen Matthews told members of the Anchorage Assembly last Friday night during a working session as they tried to unravel the latest disaster. “It is impossible for them to go haywire,” she misinformed the law makers. “They are highly accurate. I think that I could…
Category ACLU, Alaska, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Mayoral Race, Anchorage School Board, Bang it, Election 2012, Ethics, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Vitamin Democracy · Tags Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage election, Anchorage Mayoral Race, Brad Blog, Brad Friedman, election integrity, Municipality of Anchorage Election 2012
Posted by Jeanne Devon on April 15, 2012 · 39 Comments
By Jeanne Devon and Linda Kellen Biegel Friday’s Assembly work session at the Loussac Library was a chance for Anchorage Assembly members to ask questions of the key players involved in the botched Municipal election of April 3. They’d be speaking to Gwen Matthews, Chair of the Election Commission; Barbara Gruenstein, Municipal Clerk; Jacqueline Duke, Deputy Municipal Clerk; and Dennis Wheeler, Municipal Attorney. Validity of Votes Cast First up was Gwen Matthew who spoke of her role checking for the validity of the votes cast. She assured the Assembly that her team was examining everything with all the tools at…
Category Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Mayoral Race, Election 2012, Ethics, Joe Miller, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Municipality of Anchorage, Skulduggery · Tags Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Municipal Election, Barbara Gruenstein, Brad Friedman, Christ Birch, Diebold, Diebold Accuvote, election integrity, Ernie Hall, Gwen Matthew, Hacking Democracy, Harriet Drummond, Jacqueline Duke, Mayor Dan Sullivan
Posted by Jeanne Devon on September 29, 2011 · 14 Comments
I roll over lazily, stretch, yawn, and open one eye… I do a combined gasp/shriek, recoil a little, and bury my face in the pillow. Yes, my strange bedfellow is still here. I thought he left after the 2010 election, but apparently not. Given that you all know how I feel about former U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller, that I agree with virtually none of his political philosophy, and that I am grateful every day that he is not in Washington, D.C., he does bring up an interesting point to the readers of his website. The topic of the article…
Category Alaska Senate Race, Election 2010, Election 2012, Ethics, Joe Miller, Republicans, Strategery, Teabaggery, Vitamin Democracy · Tags Alaska elections, Alaska Senate Race, Brad Friedman, Diebold Accuvote, Diebold hacking, election integrity, Joe Miller
Posted by Jeanne Devon on January 3, 2011 · 42 Comments
Happy New Year, Mudflatters. The Mudflats is slowly returning from its hiatus… Of course, I’d never want to come back and all of a sudden just bonk you on the head with a large cast iron skillet, but sometimes we don’t get what we want. This is one of those times. Over the weekend, there was a big development in Joe Miller’s legal pursuit to clarify election law, and demand a complete hand reconciliation of the Alaska vote count. Our Voices from the Flats contributor, and publisher of The Brad Blog has been following the case closely and has written a…
Category Alaska Senate Race, Election 2010, Ethics, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Republicans · Tags Alaska Diebold, Alaska election integrity, Alaska recount, Alaska Senate Race, Brad Friedman, Diebold voting, election hand count, election integrity, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Scott McAdams
Posted by Jeanne Devon on November 18, 2010 · 39 Comments
The article below, by Brad Friedman should be required reading for every legislator and every voter in the state of Alaska. As we march closer to the end of the Alaska senate race, there are still many questions that need to be answered. The most important thing that can come from this election is not simply coming to a determination about who won this particular race. We have an opportunity to take back our elections from a system and a process that is inherently flawed, has been proven unreliable, has been shown to be vulnerable, and yet is still entrusted…
Category Alaska, Alaska Senate Race, Election 2010, Election 2012, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Republicans, Skulduggery, Vitamin Democracy · Tags Alaska Diebold, Alaska vote count, Brad Friedman, Diebold optical scanner, election fraud, election integrity, Joe Miller, Joe Miller recount, Lisa Murkowski, Scott McAdams
