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The Donkey, The Elephant...and now The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing: Americans Elect Corporation (Opinion)

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Beltway Urchins: AECorp Alumni Who Still Can't Shoot Straight

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Like their big brothers, the notorious Beltway Bandits (but considerably younger, and much less savvy), a small clutch of Junior League poli...
Saturday, October 13, 2012

When Did Angus King's Campaign Chairman Part Ways With Americans Elect? Pick a Date, Any Date....

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AE Transparency has uncovered factual discrepancies between official Americans Elect (AE) documents which raise new questions in the growing...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Profiles In Courage, Revisited: Meet Americans Elect's John H. Burbank III

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With the reincarnation of Americans Elect Corporation as a de facto SuperPAC (reported by us and others ), we are once again receiving emai...
Sunday, October 7, 2012

Americans Elect Declares War On Democracy; Maine's Angus King Smiles

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[UPDATED - Maine voters curious to know what sort of company Angus King is keeping with his new friends at Americans Elect should read here ...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

Americans Elect: Still Crazy After All These Years

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Perhaps you thought, as we did, too, that with the failure of Americans Elect's online primary earlier this year (chronicled throughout ...
Friday, May 18, 2012

Obituary: Americans Elect Corporation (2010-2012)

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Americans Elect Corporation passed quietly last night, May 17, 2012, in its Washington D.C. penthouse bunker. It is survived by its loving f...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

VICTORY OVER PLUTOCRACY DAY! (Or Is It?)

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In a statement just published by Americans Elect Corporation , AE states: "yada, yada, yada... The primary process for the Americans El...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Publication of AECorp's 2011 IRS Form 990 Is Now Overdue. What's It Hiding?

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Americans Elect Corporation has avenues available to it to delay the legally-required public release of its 2011 IRS Form 990 until afte...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

For the First Time Admitting Failure, AECorp Descends Into Bald-Faced Lies

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From top: AECorp Chair Ackerman & CEO Byrd Faced with one ballot failure after another , early this morning Americans Elect Corpo...
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Saturday, May 12, 2012

Our Endorsement For The Americans Elect Presidential Nomination

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AE Transparency was founded one year ago today, with a strict commitment to impartiality. Our job was, and remains , to observe American...
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Weakly Voting at Americans Elect: Slow-Death Overtime Edition

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The first-round 'support click' voting period at Americans Elect Corporation is now 112% complete...we think. Really, no one knows...
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Friday, May 11, 2012

Fast & Loose: How Americans Elect Scoffs at the Rules

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The ideal form of governance has been a subject of heated debate since antiquity. For example, while Plato advocated a benevolent monarchy, ...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

With Failures Rapidly Mounting, What Is Americans Elect's End-Game?

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Having now been forced to cancel two primary ballots in a row due to the American electorate's utter failure to respond to its spiel , ...
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AE Speaks, Claims May 15 Ballot Now Canceled, Too

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BULLETIN (7:40 AM ET, May 9) : We have just spoken with Americans Elect press secretary Ileana Wachtel regarding the passing of the yet-aga...
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Ackerman Wrecks: The Tragi-Comedy of Americans Elect Corporation Continues

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With no candidates qualified to advance to its first-of-three primary ballot (originally scheduled for May 8), last week Americans Elect can...
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Sunday, May 6, 2012

This Weak's Voting At Americans Elect: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Edition

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Feeling like Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day, we have spent the past nine weeks collecting and analyzing 'weakly' votin...
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Friday, May 4, 2012

Does Americans Elect "Get Big Money Out of Politics"?

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A big part of Americans Elect Corporation's self-proclaimed value proposition is that, by providing 'non-partisan' 50-state ball...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

First-Round Voting Deadline Passes At Americans Elect; May 8 Primary "Cancelled"

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The deadline for candidate 'support clicks' at Americans Elect Corporation was midnight last night (May 1), according to both its of...
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

A Stronger Weak of Voting At Americans Elect, And The Winner Is...

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As first-round voting approaches its close (on May 1st), Americans Elect Corporation managed to log a record-setting week, harvesting 1,...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Take A Byte Out of Plutocracy: Withdraw Your Support Clicks (Here's How)

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If you're like us, when you first learned about Americans Elect you were excited. "At last," you thought, "somebody gets...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

What To Look For In Americans Elect Corporation's Upcoming IRS Form 990

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 "Follow the money. Always follow the money," has been the First Law of political science since long befo...
Saturday, April 21, 2012

Americans Elect Corporation Weakly Voting Highlights for 4/21/12

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With just ten days left in the months-long ordeal that is Americans Elect Corporation's first-round ballot, the big picture remains as...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Americans Elect Giving Up On The Whole Intertubes Thing, Admits It's Too Complicated For Them

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A central aspect of Americans Elect's value proposition is its implementation of what we like to call 'digital democracy', al...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

AECorp Makes It Official: Ackerman Selects The Next President of the United States

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Americans Elect Corporation's otherwise silent Board of Directors posted its new Post-Election Convention Rules on its web site today. ...
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Saturday, April 14, 2012

'Weakly' Americans Elect Voting Highlights for 4/14/12

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Voter turnout for the first-round ballot at Americans Elect Corporation was anemic again this week , with just 921 qualifying votes (out o...
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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Road-Testing Americans Elect's Declared Candidates: Try Before You Buy

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Inspired by a brief Twitter exchange yesterday with AECorp declared candidate TJ O'Hara, we have laid down (via Twitter and email, and h...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Our Latest Americans Elect 'Profile In Courage' Update: William H Webster

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"Willy The Wire" Webster : Co-chair of the Americans Elect Candidate Certification Committee, and one seriously plugged-in spook....
Saturday, April 7, 2012

‘Weakly’ Voting Highlights For Americans Elect (4/7/12)

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[UPDATE: For our most recent 'Weakly Voting Highlights' click here ] Many of the results encapsulated in this week’s ...
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Push-Polling 101: Americans Elect's Platform of Questions Answer Themselves (So You Don't Have To)

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Like the old joke about Unitarians burning a question mark in your front yard, Americans Elect has plenty of questions, but no answ...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Profiles In Courage: The Affiliations AECorp Insiders Don't Want To Talk About

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This article is updated frequently with additional characters. Our current rogues gallery includes:     Peter "Godfather" Ackerman...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Buddy Roemer's Slippery Slope Into Bed With Americans Elect

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Never mind that Buddy Roemer has tried on as many political parties as Newt Gingrich has wives. What really counts in a presidentia...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

Americans Elect: Do Cheap Clicks Cheapen Picks?

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Friction: the force of Nature we all love to hate. It restricts your gas mileage, gives you rug burns, wears away at all your belov...
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