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In 2004, Rady Ananda joined the growing community of citizen journalists. Initially focused on elections, she investigated the 2004 Ohio election, organizing, training and leading several forays into counties to photograph the 2004 ballots. She officially served at three recounts, including the 2004 recount. She also organized and led the team that audited Franklin County Ohio's 2006 election, proving the number of voter signatures did not match official results. Her work appears in three books.
Her blogs also address religious, gender, sexual and racial equality, as well as environmental issues; and are sprinkled with book and film reviews on various topics. She spent most of her working life as a researcher or investigator for private lawyers, and five years as an editor.
She graduated from The Ohio State University's School of Agriculture in December 2003 with a B.S. in Natural Resources.
All material offered here is the property of Rady Ananda, copyright 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. Permission is granted to repost, with proper attribution including the original link.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
A Golden Year: NY Nears Marriage Equality NY accepts same sex marriage from other states and orders state agencies to comply. Video announcement links, and all the dandy details behind what may become the Golden Year for LGBT rights.
Thursday, May 29, 2008A Golden Year: NY Nears Marriage Equality NY accepts same sex marriage from other states and orders state agencies to comply. Video announcement links, and all the dandy details behind what may become the Golden Year for LGBT rights.
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Monday, May 26, 2008
A Memorial Day for the Civically Engaged Let us continue our work toward peace and justice, while we pause to remember many of the unsung heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice, and whose work brought relief, and sometimes joy, to the lives they touched.
Monday, May 26, 2008A Memorial Day for the Civically Engaged Let us continue our work toward peace and justice, while we pause to remember many of the unsung heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice, and whose work brought relief, and sometimes joy, to the lives they touched.
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Monday, May 26, 2008
Recount: The Mighty vs. the Many How a film about the mighty defeating the many can leave you feeling good and energized can only be ascribed to brilliant writing and direction, coupled with a perfect cast that included Kevin Spacey (Ron Klain) and Laura Dern (Katherine Harris). The film presents in rapid-fire the many ways voters are disenfranchised, and does so with humor and grit. Only one omission: the scientific study proving Gore won Florida.
Monday, May 26, 2008Recount: The Mighty vs. the Many How a film about the mighty defeating the many can leave you feeling good and energized can only be ascribed to brilliant writing and direction, coupled with a perfect cast that included Kevin Spacey (Ron Klain) and Laura Dern (Katherine Harris). The film presents in rapid-fire the many ways voters are disenfranchised, and does so with humor and grit. Only one omission: the scientific study proving Gore won Florida.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Hooray, CA! Look Who's Kissing Her Now Just in time for the summer Pride festivities, The California Supreme Court passes landmark decision allowing lesbians and gays to marry. DC grants 39 more rights to domestic partners. Ellen DeGeneris (video link included) announces her wedding plans. And Mirko Ilic's fantabulous artwork is resurrected.
Friday, May 16, 2008Hooray, CA! Look Who's Kissing Her Now Just in time for the summer Pride festivities, The California Supreme Court passes landmark decision allowing lesbians and gays to marry. DC grants 39 more rights to domestic partners. Ellen DeGeneris (video link included) announces her wedding plans. And Mirko Ilic's fantabulous artwork is resurrected.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Meaning of Life Questions: A Speculative Look at the Big Picture of Life in the Universe Former language interpreter for Presidents and other top officials, Fred Burks describes his overall galactic view: "In 2001, a wonderful friend sent me a life-changing video, and opened my eyes to a major cover-up of UFOs." Researching several different coverups, and "based on information I received independently from sources I trust, I developed my own theories about the big picture, which I provide here for you."
Tuesday, April 22, 2008Meaning of Life Questions: A Speculative Look at the Big Picture of Life in the Universe Former language interpreter for Presidents and other top officials, Fred Burks describes his overall galactic view: "In 2001, a wonderful friend sent me a life-changing video, and opened my eyes to a major cover-up of UFOs." Researching several different coverups, and "based on information I received independently from sources I trust, I developed my own theories about the big picture, which I provide here for you."
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Sex, Race and War Two different groups of activists met this year to discuss strategy, with exact opposite results. At a Common Cause forum, blogger Brad Friedman collected applause when he marginalized gender and racial equality: "I don't think we have the luxury to concern ourselves with these things. We're talking about the furniture while the house is burning down." At a feminist forum, the strategy was to build bridges with the oppressed.
Monday, April 14, 2008Sex, Race and War Two different groups of activists met this year to discuss strategy, with exact opposite results. At a Common Cause forum, blogger Brad Friedman collected applause when he marginalized gender and racial equality: "I don't think we have the luxury to concern ourselves with these things. We're talking about the furniture while the house is burning down." At a feminist forum, the strategy was to build bridges with the oppressed.
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
Obama Advisor's Firm Spies on McCain, Clinton The CEO of a company whose employee is accused of improperly looking at the passport files of presidential candidates is a consultant to the Barack Obama campaign. The State Department, thru its private contractor, breached the passport records of Obama, Clinton and McCain. Bush Sr. did this to Bill Clinton back in 1992.
Sunday, March 23, 2008Obama Advisor's Firm Spies on McCain, Clinton The CEO of a company whose employee is accused of improperly looking at the passport files of presidential candidates is a consultant to the Barack Obama campaign. The State Department, thru its private contractor, breached the passport records of Obama, Clinton and McCain. Bush Sr. did this to Bill Clinton back in 1992.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The Law of Demand This piece of net-advice promises we can force gas prices to lower if we stop buying gas from Exxon Mobil, which also owns Esso.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008The Law of Demand This piece of net-advice promises we can force gas prices to lower if we stop buying gas from Exxon Mobil, which also owns Esso.
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
Hackable Voting Machines Hacked in Ohio An investigation into electronic voting machines used in Franklin County, Ohio last fall revealed that the machines were tampered with, removing a candidate name; that they were not tested prior to use (as required by law); and that a function that tracked changes to the machines was purposely turned off. Undeterred by science, politicians still plan to use wholly non-securable voting equipment which counts the vote in secret.
Sunday, March 16, 2008Hackable Voting Machines Hacked in Ohio An investigation into electronic voting machines used in Franklin County, Ohio last fall revealed that the machines were tampered with, removing a candidate name; that they were not tested prior to use (as required by law); and that a function that tracked changes to the machines was purposely turned off. Undeterred by science, politicians still plan to use wholly non-securable voting equipment which counts the vote in secret.
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Friday, March 7, 2008
Texas Holdem: Provisionals, Delegates, One-Party Counties Hold Back the Public Will Voting rules, partisan practices and faulty registration databases seem to blame for a series of "anomalies" in the March 4th Texas primary.
Friday, March 7, 2008Texas Holdem: Provisionals, Delegates, One-Party Counties Hold Back the Public Will Voting rules, partisan practices and faulty registration databases seem to blame for a series of "anomalies" in the March 4th Texas primary.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Real Election Madness Serving as one of the Ohio investigators taught me that citizen oversight is the cure to "Election Madness," a pandemic delusion fiercely held by half the country - that half that still votes. Let's take our country back, by implementing an election process that models best management practices. This brief handbook offers a skeletal plan on how to do this.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008Real Election Madness Serving as one of the Ohio investigators taught me that citizen oversight is the cure to "Election Madness," a pandemic delusion fiercely held by half the country - that half that still votes. Let's take our country back, by implementing an election process that models best management practices. This brief handbook offers a skeletal plan on how to do this.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
So. Florida Nuclear Reactors Shut Down Millions of people in South Florida experienced brief power outages this afternoon as two nuclear reactors in Miami automatically shut down when power lines at a substation failed.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008So. Florida Nuclear Reactors Shut Down Millions of people in South Florida experienced brief power outages this afternoon as two nuclear reactors in Miami automatically shut down when power lines at a substation failed.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Post-EVEREST Study Reveals MORE Vulnerabilities This Penn State professor is not an election rights advocate, but he's a computer expert and his results will convince any voter that using computers in the voting process -- from pollbooks to voting machines to tabulating machines -- is a very bad idea. Watch the video below and distribute to everyone you know.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008Post-EVEREST Study Reveals MORE Vulnerabilities This Penn State professor is not an election rights advocate, but he's a computer expert and his results will convince any voter that using computers in the voting process -- from pollbooks to voting machines to tabulating machines -- is a very bad idea. Watch the video below and distribute to everyone you know.
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Non-Electoral Activism in a Presidential Election Year Presidential politics overshadows all other politics during a Presidential election period, sucking up activist energy, popular attention and donor contributions. But there's also an opposite mistake that can be made -accommodating tactics to the electoral season in a way which strips our movements of urgency, creativity, militancy and edginess.
Monday, February 18, 2008Non-Electoral Activism in a Presidential Election Year Presidential politics overshadows all other politics during a Presidential election period, sucking up activist energy, popular attention and donor contributions. But there's also an opposite mistake that can be made -accommodating tactics to the electoral season in a way which strips our movements of urgency, creativity, militancy and edginess.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Political Realism vs Negotiating with Our Hands Successful tactics from around the globe inspire adoption into the hand-count elections movement. Rejection of hopeless "realism" – that politicians aren't considering our demand for hand counts - is but a part of the overall strategy. If citizens expect accurate election results, they must run parallel polls, observe, investigate and video the vote. Power is never given; it must be asserted.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008Political Realism vs Negotiating with Our Hands Successful tactics from around the globe inspire adoption into the hand-count elections movement. Rejection of hopeless "realism" – that politicians aren't considering our demand for hand counts - is but a part of the overall strategy. If citizens expect accurate election results, they must run parallel polls, observe, investigate and video the vote. Power is never given; it must be asserted.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
No Centralized Voter Registration Databases Franklin County (OH) Muncipal Court is another in a long line of government organizations that violate citizens' privacy by exposing personal information on its website. Coupling centralized, computerized voter registration databases with secret vote counting (via machine) is a perfect recipe for tyranny. Stalin must be dancing in his grave over U.S. elections.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008No Centralized Voter Registration Databases Franklin County (OH) Muncipal Court is another in a long line of government organizations that violate citizens' privacy by exposing personal information on its website. Coupling centralized, computerized voter registration databases with secret vote counting (via machine) is a perfect recipe for tyranny. Stalin must be dancing in his grave over U.S. elections.
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Friday, January 11, 2008
NBC un-plugs Kucinich from Presidential debate "When 'big media' exert their unbridled control over what Americans can see, hear, and read, then the Constitutional power and right of the citizens to vote is being vetoed by multi-billion corporations that want the votes to go their way," the Kucinich campaign said.
Friday, January 11, 2008NBC un-plugs Kucinich from Presidential debate "When 'big media' exert their unbridled control over what Americans can see, hear, and read, then the Constitutional power and right of the citizens to vote is being vetoed by multi-billion corporations that want the votes to go their way," the Kucinich campaign said.
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Writers Campaign for Transparent Vote Counting This collection of articles on NH's disparity between hand-counted precincts and machine-tabulated precincts contain a wealth of resource and video links from most of the biggest names in election integrity. The best and the brightest have written with persuasion, arguing for transparency. Most articles contain action links, to write Congress and newspapers. Spread the word.
Thursday, January 10, 2008Writers Campaign for Transparent Vote Counting This collection of articles on NH's disparity between hand-counted precincts and machine-tabulated precincts contain a wealth of resource and video links from most of the biggest names in election integrity. The best and the brightest have written with persuasion, arguing for transparency. Most articles contain action links, to write Congress and newspapers. Spread the word.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Inherent Uncertainty and NH's Primary Results Blogs are bursting over the fact that ALL the major pollsters, including Hillary's and Barack's internal polling, had Obama winning New Hampshire's presidential primary election. Yet in a surreal recurring nightmare, official results say otherwise. We'll never know because election conditions invoke inherent uncertainty.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008Inherent Uncertainty and NH's Primary Results Blogs are bursting over the fact that ALL the major pollsters, including Hillary's and Barack's internal polling, had Obama winning New Hampshire's presidential primary election. Yet in a surreal recurring nightmare, official results say otherwise. We'll never know because election conditions invoke inherent uncertainty.
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Sunday, January 6, 2008
Papering over OptiScam Problems Reading the 7,800-word New York Times article on voting systems, many will walk away believing optical scans are the best choice for democratic elections. Damn the science. Damn the cost. Damn the loss of transparency and public accountability. The problems inherent in software-driven systems can all be corrected by hand-counting paper ballots at the precinct on election night, before all who wish to observe.
Sunday, January 6, 2008Papering over OptiScam Problems Reading the 7,800-word New York Times article on voting systems, many will walk away believing optical scans are the best choice for democratic elections. Damn the science. Damn the cost. Damn the loss of transparency and public accountability. The problems inherent in software-driven systems can all be corrected by hand-counting paper ballots at the precinct on election night, before all who wish to observe.
