This article appears jointly on The Vadimus Post and LA Progressive.com
For 36-hours, Pima County’s Democratic Party was led on a chase that would have either made The French Connection’s Popeye Doyle proud or retch in disgust.
A computer hard-drive purchased by the party containing court-ordered copies of 1,300 Diebold GEMS election databases dating back to 2002, [...]

As a journalist the story intrigued, as a citizen it outraged. 
For seven years Michael Duniho, a quiet, determined and dignified man had been sending quarterly or so e-mails, quietly seething about the conduct of elections in his new home of Tucson (Pima County), Arizona. Though I never have, Michael, (we all call him Mickey) has [...]

(Pictured L to  R: Jim March, Bill Risner, John R. Brakey of AUDIT AZ)
This article appears jointly on The Vadimus Post and LA Progressive.com
 Millions will soon begin early voting in the General Election. Nearly half of all US counties will use Diebold GEMS tabulation system. Election officials have the ability to print off complete election [...]

Finally, an intelligent, fight-back e-mail against the hundreds of smears…
-If you’re a conservative and you’re selected for a job over more qualified candidates, you’re a ‘game changer.’ 
-Black teen pregnancies? A ‘crisis’ in black America.
-White teen pregnancies? A ‘blessed event.’ 
-If you grow up in Hawaii you’re ‘exotic.’ 
-Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you’re the quintessential ‘American [...]

(Ed. The M.O. for Republicans is if you cannot definitively answer the charges, attack the one making the charge. Charley has been getting both barrels from the right including Mary Malkin, Hennessy and others. This is his thoughtful reply.)
By Charley James
Anonymous sources are the bane of a reporter’s existence, and have been at least since [...]

John McCain has abandoned any premise of controlling his campaign, his party or even his own destiny. As Charley James writes today, he has chosen an obscure, mean-spirited and vindictive running mate who, as more and more reporters scrape back the patina and veneer of, seems frighteningly similar to the current resident of Navy Observatory [...]

The infamous Daily Tracking Polls the media treat as Gospel, are missing several chapters. From Gallup to Zogby these polls are of ‘likely’ voters in the upcoming election. A ‘likely’ voter is defined as someone having voted in the last two Presidential elections.
That means the youngest possible poll participant voted in his/her first election in [...]

By Charley James
Watching John McCain hug Sarah Palin yesterday was almost creepy: It was like seeing an old man not fit to be president copping a feel off a woman roughly half his age who’s not fit to be vice president. Eerily, it happened a few days after McCain turned 72 and the day before [...]

The party was unified and happy leaving Boston in 2004. The difference between this year and four years ago is that many of us voted against George Bush rather than for John Kerry. When casting our ballot this year many will be voting for Barack Obama.
The pundits had nothing to talk about those first few [...]

by Charley James
John McCain is sneaking up on Barack Obama in the latest still-too-early-to-mean-much polls. But what is meaningful is that around 30% of former Clinton supporters are still declaring themselves as undecided or supporting McCain.
To those people, I have three words to think about as the convention convenes in Denver: Supreme Court appointments.
If you [...]