This is who all those 'independent' voters are...and why Democrats should pay...
As a data scientist, the time I served on a North Carolina campaign committee in 2018 was an eye-opener, revealing just how far behind the curve the state’s Democrats are when it comes to using data...
View ArticleCheckmates: How the Booker, Warren, Harris & Gillibrand camps worked...
There’s a lot more to online political advertising than just coming up with a compelling message and eye-catching graphics. Given a limited budget, and facing the critical need (at this early point in...
View ArticleGOP going down for third time in NC-09 election fraud hearing
We’ve just completed day three of the North Carolina State Board of Elections’ hearing to decide whether to certify Mark Harris (R) as the winner over Dan McCready (D) in NC-09 despite compelling...
View ArticleStroke of Genius: How alleged election fraudster Mark Harris lived to fight...
The fourth and final day of evidentiary hearings by the North Carolina State Board of Elections into election fraud in the NC-09 race between Mark Harris (R) and Dan McCready (D) more than lived up to...
View ArticleSend lawyers, popcorn, and money. The NC09 do-over election is going to...
When disgraced Baptist preacher and alleged election fraud pay-master, Mark Harris (R), issued his unsurprising statement today announcing he would not seek the GOP’s re-nomination for the upcoming...
View ArticleThe GOP's impossibly bad options for a new NC09 candidate. Part I: Gov. Pat...
By all rights, North Carolina’s 9th congressional district should be one of the most reliably Republican seats in the House of Representatives. After all, the seat’s last Democratic holder, the...
View ArticleDon't rat us out: GOP pol bails out accused election fraudster, McCrae...
WBTV (Charlotte NC) reporter Nick Ochsner tweets that McCrae Dowless, the accused operative at the center of the NC09 election fraud scandal, has been bailed out of the Raleigh detention center by...
View ArticleIn a darkening age, the question of the Maundy
On my way out the door with MsDawg to attend our church’s Maundy Thursday service, I thought I’d reprint one of my all-time favorite diaries tonight. Maundy Thursday is certainly the most misunderstood...
View ArticleLeaked voting machine passwords add to North Carolina's growing tally of...
When it comes to election irregularities, North Carolina is the new Florida.First there was the mini-disaster on Election Day 2016, in North Carolina’s bluest county by far, Durham. E-pollbook...
View ArticleVoting machine password leak in North Carolina grows murkier the more we learn
Last week’s disclosure regarding the North Carolina State Board of Elections’ 2018 leak of touchscreen voting machine passwords just got a lot more confusing.Well-regarded cybersecurity analyst Chris...
View ArticleOn cusp of historic election security vote, NC State Board of Elections falls...
If you’re a supporter of the “hand-marked paper ballots” movement, you should be keeping a close eye on increasingly bizarre election security developments in North Carolina right now.SWING STATE NORTH...
View ArticlePolitical Malware: How a GOP website disenfranchises North Carolina (and...
Reprinted from EQVAnalytics.com, with permissionGoing door-to-door to disenfranchise North Carolina absentee-by-mail voters is so 2018.Perhaps that's why this year the GOP has a web-based tool that...
View ArticleVictory! We stopped a Republican National Committee trojan malware op dead in...
Yesterday at EQV Analytics we published (and reprinted later here at Daily Kos) an exposé of the malware-riddled trojan horse website paid for and operated by the Republican National Committee:...
View Article'Raging Blue Grannies' dominating early voting in NC09's do-over election....
Something extraordinary is happening in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional district.Held since 1963 by Republicans (most recently Robert Pittenger), the district is in the midst of a do-over election...
View ArticleGoogle Alerts and the propaganda wars
Google Alerts is my poor-man’s LexisNexis. It’s Google’s free alerting service (via email) for news and other web content. I use it, for instance, to alert me daily to new news related to selected...
View ArticleIn North Carolina, an inspiring Black woman Senate candidate takes the lead
In battleground North Carolina, a political contest of historic proportions is taking shape – one that will help determine the names of both the next president and the next Senate majority leader. At...
View ArticleSuper Tuesday's choice: Six reasons in North Carolina
In battleground North Carolina, Democrats face a defining moment a few weeks from today: the March 3rd primary. Its outcome will help determine the answers to the two most pressing political questions...
View ArticleRight-wing Judicial Watch threatens lawsuits to force poll book purges in...
An article tucked deep in the back pages of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette triggered my spidey-sense this weekend.Conservative group warns county to clean up voter rollsThe conservative organization...
View ArticleTo flip...or flop? Democrats brace for North Carolina's high-stakes US Senate...
North Carolina’s junior Republican senator, Thom Tillis (“a man with the backbone of a squid and a zealous supporter of President Definitely No Quid Pro Quo”), has the dubious honor of entering his...
View ArticleNC-Sen Dem candidate "had a hard time" working with ICE against people...
On the heels of the article earlier this week on North Carolina Democratic U.S. Senate candidates J. Calvin Cunningham III and Erica D. Smith, a short video has emerged documenting Cunningham’s 2010...
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