Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Race For Ag Took Nasty Turn


THE RACE FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE
TAKES A NASTY TURN
THE WATCHMAN

Recent events in the Oklahoma GOP race for the office of the Attorney General have taken a nasty change of discourse recently. Name calling is just part of it. Claims by both individuals have painted their opponent as the worse possible choice to hold the office. We received in our mail on Wednesday, a flyer from both individuals. We looked to see if the claims made are accurate. The following story is what we found.

We started by going to the flyer's themselves. We compared the individual claims made for accuracy. We started by going to the Wikipedia page for each candidate. The page on Mr. Drummond we found to be accurate as to what he is indicating he's accomplished in his life. Then we looked at the AG Mike Hunter's page and found some omission's that raise a concern over his qualifications to be the State Attorney General.

The first was that there is little to no information to indicate he was a practicing attorney. It does state he was. He served in the state legislature from 1988 thru 1991. There is no indication of what he did between 1991 thru 1993. Once again, it's indicated he returned to a private practice. It must not have been a success because two years later he became the General Counsel for the Oklahoma State Corporation Commission between 1993 through 1994. There is no indication of his employment from 1994 until he went to work for Governor Fallin.

Monday, August 20, 2018

Our Secure Voting Machines?


 
HOW SECURE ARE OUR VOTING MACHINES?
THE WATCHMAN


As we are all well aware of the voting problem in the 2016 elections, we decided to investigate the security of voting machines and why the Republicans want photo identification before people vote. We were in shock about what we found. We have uncovered the reason that Democrats insist on not having voter identification. We believe it's the only way many Democrats remain in office.

We found this article from Newsweek. Yes, we are aware that they are a left leaning magazine. It would appear that this article is only left leaning. It doesn't try to blame either party, but it does include an admission by the manufacturer of certain voting machines that failed to include non-hackable software.