Arkansas Blog

Lagrone is going to really be mad when he gets beat like he stole something by a guy who spends most of his days drinking and smoking.

Are you saying Old Charlie will bend an elbow ?

"The review committee should consist of bi-partisan county clerks and county election commissioners from around the state - people who had real experiences and had to deal with this debacle at the local level. "

If Lagrone thinks his proposed committee will yield better results, he's bogus.

Bi-partisan County Clerk's?

Is there such a think in Arkansas?

I'd probably fall into Lagrone's groaning about the election process in Arkansas - except for one thing - its happening all over this country and the real blame lies on the shoulders of our esteemed CongressCritters who jammed this down the throats of the states without a clear methodical plan. Whoever thought that the entire country could jump into this all at the same times is absolutely NUTS - oops - that'd be the Congress and the Bush administration.
I hope I don't have to listen to Lagrone on this for the next 5 months. Clearly he hasn't got a clue, just looking for some traction on a deaf campaign.

I count three Republican County Clerks in Arkansas: Benton, Newton, and White(?).

Like it or not, Lagrone's right. And Daniels was and is still - wrong.

The 'independent review' is not so independent. Newkirk helped write the request for purchase proposals (RFP) for the ES&S machines for the SOS office. And why Newkirk and InfoSentry in the first place?

Seems Newkirk joined together with anti paper ballot advocates in penning the SAAFE letter to Congress, requesting the House to squash Congressman Rush Holt's paper ballot bill to add paper ballots/receipts on these evoting machines.

Anyone who is opposed to the verification of the vote should NOT be reviewing a company who is known for the manufacture of evoting machines with NO paper on them for verification. That's not independent, that's a conflict of interest.

You liberals are the ones who haven't a clue. Charlie Daniels is going to conduct some ludicrous "independent" review just to TRY to get himself out of hot water. And don't even try to blame Congress for Charlie's incompetence. Congress wasn't the one who made Charlie choose ES&S for the voting machines. All Congress did was pass a law in response to the incompetent voters down in Florida in 2000 who couldn't read a ballot. Why don't you place blame where blame is due, on Charlie and not on Congress or Jim Lagrone?

Ya had 2 choices that had the ability to supply the needed standardized equipment. ES&S and Diebold - owned by brothers - the choice - damned if ya do - damned if ya don't. I'm not saying that Charlie doesn't have some blame here, but you a way off base trying to lay this all at the feet of Daniels.
And by the way - I hate "you liberals", I'm probably more conservative than you - the difference - I walk the walk - not just flap my jaws and talk the talk. Do as I say, not as I do so called Christian Conservatives - The only thing "you people" are good at is conserving your warped sense of being. You certainly haven't conserved and protect our nation, our soldiers our place in the world and our treasury. You've just managed to get 30% of the sheeple to believe your horseshit - and that's shrinking.
And what you people have done to Christ's Christianity will be one of the greatest tragedies of all. When the walls of your Jericho comes tumbling down, the Christian faith in the eyes of many Americans will take a large hit - and there will be a price to pay, one way or the other.

To the rest of my fellow bloggers. Sorry for the rant, but man I get sick of that "you liberals" crap. These people haven't a clue what a real Democrat is, and they sure as hell don't want to know either.

What did this person just say?
He must be havin' a snort with Charlie..

Lagrone should hit on the fact that Charlie has assigned one of his staff to be his fulltime driver. We all know why Charlie doesn't want to be behind the wheel during an election year. Is this a proper use of a state employee?

Let's just look at this for what it is -- a desperate candidate doing everything he can to get his name in print and on the air. The travesty is that he can say anything and the idiot press will print it, and then because it is in the newspaper or you hear it on the news people take it at face value.

Yeah, Charlie's got his faults but he's a damn sight better than anyone we've had in the office since I've been in these parts. What has this other guy done but bitch and moan?

His answer to everything is "I'll do it better". Big woof. One actually has to have a plan in order to do that, not just spit vitriol. If you can't read between the lines on this one, yer pretty dumb.

These people coming to Daniels' aid must be either his sons or his staffers.

Because Charlie absolutely has the buck stopping in his face, and he knows it.

ES&S is way TOO important to him. But what about ES&S? For know, they are backing you Charlie, don't forget they testified against Bill McCuen for immunity and put him in prison.

This all makes good fodder for Jim. It really does. and he makes sense.

but heres my questions.

How many elections has Jim Lagrone run?

How many elections has he worked?

How is HE qualified to be the Sec of State?

but you know, it really doesnt matter. Jim can say whatever he wants. he cant beat the best fiddle player ever. not in arkansas anyways.

LaGrone is the bogus one. What exactly are his campaign points? The only time I have heard anything out of him was when he was trying to make Daniels look bad. How would he do it better? What would he have done differently? I guess he would have went with Diebold...

"Electronic Voting Machine Study Exposes Most Serious Security Flaws Ever Documented"

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/31/1330240

Instead of attempting to take jabs at Daniels, maybe he should offer up his plan. The only problem with that is...he doesn't have one. He is starting to sound a lot like Charlie Brown's teacher.

The problem is with the machines provided by, and run by, Republican companies, and us being forced to deal with them because a Republican congress decided we have to.

Daniels is just trying to make the best of things he is forced to do. Get the Republicans out, with their dirty dealings, and things will miraculously start to run well again, just like FEMA used to work when it was set up right.