Dirty Tricks on a my.barackobama.com website

[Ka hrnt]

In response to:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5696805#5701541

I'd just like to point out that the source article states, "HILLARY CLINTON'S STRONGHOLD AND POLLING STATIONS HAD NOT ONE PROBLEM *Below* "

Source article: http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/Christopherwalls/gGCVyR

(Screen capture of the article)


Now a Google Images search for "voting machines" turns up that bottom picture...from ~4 years ago. "NOT ONE PROBLEM" indeed. ;)

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://uprisingradio.org/home/%3Fp%3D1739&h=315&w=475&sz=33&hl=en&start=6&um=1&tbnid=ExMqIHW2fbkwPM:&tbnh=86&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dvoting%2Bmachine%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN


Updated the headline because apparently a "my.barackobama.com" and "An obama" website wasn't clear enough, and said technicality is more important than trying to pass off a stock photo as evidence of "HILLARY CLINTON'S STRONGHOLD AND POLLING STATIONS HAD NOT ONE PROBLEM'."

[datopbanana]

1. you. dumber. than. dumb. that. is. user. created. page. g1.

[McCamy Taylor]

2. LOL. If they have time travel technology, no wonder everything runs smoothly.

[mcctatas]

3. ?

what are you saying?

[arcos]

4. Did you know that my.barackobama.com sites are not managed by the campaign?

They are basically like MySpace or Facebook sites, they are user managed.

[datopbanana]

5. No. he didn't.

[blogslut]

6. Who is the dirty trickster here?

I advise anyone to visit the page in question:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/Christopherwalls/gGCVyR/commentary

Note that the OP grabbed a screenshot from the bottom of the individual user's blog post. The photos above are actual shots of actual voters in Obama strongholds in Pennsylvania on primary day. The ones the OP finds "tricky" are representations of Clinton strongholds. The page in question actually looks like this:



The voting problems were/are real and there were over 1000 complaints, some of them cited in this press release from Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law:

Election Protection Coalition Fields Over 1,000 Calls Reporting Scattered Problems Throughout Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA, April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- (10:30 p.m. Update) -- As polls closed across Pennsylvania this evening, the Election Protection Coalition reported receiving over 1,000 calls to the Voter Protection Hotline throughout the day. The Coalition entered more reports into its election reporting database than in any previous state primary, including primaries earlier this year in California, New York and other populous states.

Nationally renowned Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law together with an extensive coalition of partners throughout Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia-based Committee of Seventy, responded to voting problems throughout the state through a comprehensive voter protection program. Nearly 1,000 nonpartisan citizen and legal volunteers monitored polling places throughout Pennsylvania. Approximately 800 volunteers worked in Philadelphia. Voters reported issues by way of the coalition hotline (1-866-OUR-VOTE) and through hundreds of field volunteers throughout the state.

~snip~

-- In Delaware County, one voter reported that the voting machines at her
precinct were set for Republicans only. She told the poll worker that
she was a Democrat and the worker replied, "Not today." The voter was
not able to cast a vote, but The League of Women Voters provided her
with the phone number of the Delaware County Board of Elections to
report and resolve the issue.

-- A voter reported that, at one location, building materials were being
thrown off the roof of the polling place to prevent voters from
entering.

link: http://sev.prnewswire.com/legal/20080423/CLTU16122042008-1.html

[Ka hrnt]

9. LMAO!

"The ones the OP finds "tricky" are representations of Clinton strongholds."

Uh huh.... So where did he mention that they are "representations" in the line:

"HILLARY CLINTON'S STRONGHOLD AND POLLING STATIONS HAD NOT ONE PROBLEM *Below* "

Sorry; this guy was dishonest at best.

But I will give you credit; you were the only one to at least try to come up with an excuse for this guy's blatant dishonesty.


And from my the other thread:

Anyone taking this at face value needs a healthy dose of reality.

First of all, the quality of this report is rendered suspect in the first (non)sentence:

"If you were planning to vote yesterday in the Pennsylvania primary you had another thing coming as reports of voting machine problems in all of Obama's stronghold precincts."

Yeah...read that again and notice it's missing something. Opening sentence. Lots of typos in this article too.

"Six of ten machines were down at a busy Delaware County polling site. It took 103 people 8 hours to vote in Upper Darby, which is heavily populated by immigrant and first time voters. Many of those freshly-minted voters had difficulties using the six machines that still functioned. "Hell of a day for six of the machines to go down," said one poll worker."

So six of ten were down....but six still functioned? Neat.

"A technician was dispatched to each location and helped to properly set up the machines,upon further inspection machines had been manipulated and set with 500 to 1500 votes calibrated to Clinton."

So rather than turning the machines overs to authorities or at least getting proof of this, they just reset them and walked away?

"HILLARY CLINTON'S STRONGHOLD AND POLLING STATIONS HAD NOT ONE PROBLEM *Below*"

For proof of this they offer TWO pictures, neither of which seems to have any evidence as to when/where they were taken.

[Ka hrnt]

10. You people are absolutely shameless.

So only one of you will try to explain why the picture which is portrayed as being at a Clinton Stronghold in the Pennsylvania primary is actually ~4 years old.

And someone please tell me why so many of you read original headline ("an Obama website") as "The Obama website." Oh, that's right--it's your straw man argument.

Good job. You really proved your point. ;)

[blogslut]

11. meh

Have fun. Try not to get a headache.

[davidpdx]

7. It was probably passed around email by one of the "unofficial" Hillary website

with the usual chant that goes, "kill Obama, kill Obama"

[JTFrog]

8. What a dittohead. n/t