(Democracy Now 2 Dec 2010) AMY GOODMAN: To talk more about the legal problems facing Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, we're going to London. We're joined by his...
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jimrtex4192
Dec 3, 2010 3:44 pm
... I took the ballot counts and normalized them so that they would be represented in the actual count. Normalization operations were: Overvotes: Overvotes...
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jimrtex4192
Dec 4, 2010 7:21 am
... This was not a complete count - so I'm starting over....
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Stephen Unger
steve.unger
Dec 5, 2010 8:40 pm
The latest high-tech weapons in the war on terror are back-scatter X-ray and millimeter-wave scanners, intended to determine if passengers are carrying...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Dec 6, 2010 12:45 am
... --let's try a simple cost-benefit analysis of these scanners? Year 2010 in the USA, there were 621 million passengers (counting those who take multiple...
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Stephen Unger
steve.unger
Dec 6, 2010 7:25 pm
Warren's analysis is interesting. It could be refined in a number of ways. At one end, the benefit postulated is the prevention of one 9/11 type disaster (3000...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Dec 6, 2010 9:04 pm
... --it's a guess. Probably a somewhat optimistic guess. ... --I was just using standard radiation damage estimates. Lots of forms of radiation get...
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Joyce McCloy
ncverifiable...
Dec 6, 2010 9:56 pm
Democratic appointee NC Court of Appeals Judge Thigpen goes from 100,000 votes ahead to 6,700 votes behind. Although this was non partisan contest, voter...
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Dave Ketchum
daveket2001
Dec 6, 2010 11:55 pm
We can estimate the cost of installing and using such scanners. Can even estimate whether their use would save enough lives to be worth such. If one such scan...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Dec 7, 2010 3:39 am
... --The REM measure is supposed to take account of all that already. REM stands for "Radiation Effect on Man." 1 REM of hard and 1 REM of soft have the...
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brokenladdercalendar
brokenladder...
Dec 7, 2010 7:22 am
Hey Warren, When was the party about the Pirate Party added to this page? http://scorevoting.net/OlympHist.html One strategy that has come to mind, which I...
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brokenladdercalendar
brokenladder...
Dec 7, 2010 8:17 am
STV is not used for direct elections in India, but is used for the indirect election of most members of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the federal...
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Dave Ketchum
daveket2001
Dec 7, 2010 12:49 pm
If you care, see what I wrote December 6, 2010 6:52:40 PM EST, and see what is written of "hard" and "soft" at: ...
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jimrtex4192
Dec 7, 2010 6:12 pm
Not very transparent in NC. There were 13 candidates, and Thigpen had 20% and McCullough had 15%. With 1.2 million ballots with a possibility to switch it is...
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Chris Telesca
cjtelesca
Dec 7, 2010 8:11 pm
... With that sort of margin, I've never seen anyone else do it. ... It's not true that Democrats didn't have a choice but to back the governor's appointment....
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Chris Telesca
cjtelesca
Dec 7, 2010 8:13 pm
Oh - and there were no organized attempts to get votes transferred in a certain way. Neither party at the state or at the county levels really had a clue...
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Bruce Gilson
brg1942
Dec 7, 2010 10:35 pm
... And which is the same as what we generally call Instant Runoff Voting or Ranked Choice Voting in this country. [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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Chris Telesca
cjtelesca
Dec 8, 2010 12:00 pm
Welcome to the family of civic and thought leaders who oppose IRV/RCV. Former Mayor Santos will be welcomed because he can bring us the FairVote playbook -...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Dec 8, 2010 5:43 pm
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/22803/41270/en/summary.html As of 8 Dec the race is still not officially decided. Unofficial counts: Doug...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Dec 8, 2010 6:00 pm
this is the last race the the country to be decided. AP 30 Nov: Bishop appears to be ahead by 214 or 215 votes. 8 Dec: Altschuler was about to appear in court...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Dec 8, 2010 7:05 pm
San Leandro CA mayor race 2010 http://www.acgov.org/rov/current_election/index.htm The "ballot images" are available here in a mysterious format: ...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Dec 8, 2010 7:32 pm
LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) -- Former 'Baywatch' star and Playboy Playmate Donna D'Errico says she was singled out by a TSA agent for a full body scan while traveling...
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jimrtex4192
Dec 8, 2010 11:11 pm
The NCBOE now has some more details: On election night, it was: Thigpen: 395,220 McCullough: 295,519 Others: 1,253,032 Invalid* 56,359 The invalid...
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Chris Telesca
cjtelesca
Dec 8, 2010 11:31 pm
Jim - may I post your comment at the end of this posting onto some other NC groups? Chris Telesca...
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jimrtex4192
Dec 9, 2010 12:59 am
Thigpen has decided to ask for a recount, saying that the county election officials might not have understood the instructions from the state. ... Turnout on...
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Dec 9, 2010 1:34 am
... --ok, good to know. One benefit of these rules is, the state could just publish a 13x13 pairwise table of A>B and B>A preference counts, and that would...
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jimrtex4192
Dec 9, 2010 5:01 am
... OK. ... I looked at the results some more. Hill (white female) was the most consistent performer, while, Stokes (black male) had the largest variation....
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WarrenS
warren_d_smi...
Dec 9, 2010 5:33 am
Washington Post: Before the WikiLeaks crisis, the US State Department began a new initiative called "21st Century Statecraft," which includes a drive to expand...
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jimrtex4192
Dec 9, 2010 8:31 am
... http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=6950 Though a nonpartisan race, partisan affiliation was known. Thigpen was appointed...
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Michael Ellis
michaelf.ellis
Dec 9, 2010 5:27 pm
This may be a dumb question. Please pardon me as I'm new to this kind of analysis. Do we have access to the matrix of rankings in any of these races, ...
