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Brad Friedman is a US self-described "election integrity muckraking journalist jerk,"[1] blogger, actor, radio broadcaster, director and software programmer. Friedman has a BFA from New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts.
Buffalo's independent newspaper The Beast describes him as "perhaps the most diligent and unassailable election integrity advocate in America." [2]
He is the creator and publisher of The BRAD BLOG, which the Los Angeles Times has described as California's "most persistent blogger-watchdog on the dangers of voting technology". [3]
"If you want to learn about the state of our election process, I urge you to visit BradBlog.com. Brad Friedman has worked doggedly on this issue, amassing tons of valuable news and information on this subject." - Catherine Crier, Crier Live, Court TV, July 11, 2006. [4]. Friedman would later appear, along with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., live on Crier's program, on July 20, 2006 to discuss concerns about voting systems to be used in that year's upcoming general election.
A November, 2008 interview by BuzzFlash.com describes Friedman as a "Champion of Fair Elections and Challenger of Election Theft," and notes "Brad has been unrelenting in documenting the details of the dark side of our voting system."
The Chicago Sun-Times' Beacon News profiled Friedman in April of 2008. [5][dead link]
Blog
Friedman's website covers voting rights and election integrity issues in the USA,[6][7] and also covers a number of other subjects related to media reform and political corruption from a progressive standpoint.
His blog site is generally critical of Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems),[8] ES&S, Sequoia Voting Systems and electronic voting in general.
He was invited to testify at the Election Assistance Commission's Voting Advocate Roundtable Discussion.[9] Friedman is a noted advocate of a return to paper balloting[10] and of the role of bloggers as journalists.[11] he has been described in the New York Times as "perhaps the most dogged critic of electronic voting machine technology in the blogosphere".[12]
Other work
His work as a freelance journalist has been published by Mother Jones, Editor & Publisher, Computerworld, Columbus Free Press, Salon.com, TruthOut.org, Harvard's Nieman Foundation of Journalism and Hustler, among others, and he and his work at The BRAD BLOG, are frequently cited as sources in other mainstream publications.[13]
He is featured in numerous documentary films, interviewed as an investigative journalist, and expert in issues of election integrity and voting systems. Among the films in which he appears: Phil Donahue & Ellen Spiro's Body of War, David Earnhardt's Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections[14] and Patty Sharaf's Murder, Spies & Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story.
In July 2006, Hustler magazine featured an article in which Friedman discussed the alleged suicide of Raymond Lemme, an investigator tracking down claims of vote-rigging by Congressman Tom Feeney, as alleged by Florida software programmer Clint Curtis in a story Friedman broke in late 2004 and has covered in great detail ever since.
Friedman reported on suspicions that the 2008 New Hampshire Democratic primary was rigged.[15] He has also extensively covered the case of Ann Coulter's voter fraud issues in Florida.[16] In 2008 Friedman reported critically on the FBI investigation into the suspected involvement of Bruce Ivins in the 2001 anthrax attacks.[17]
He is a frequent guest host on radio for syndicated progressive talkers such as Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, Peter B. Collins and others.[18]
Friedman is the winner of multiple Joe Bob Briggs' Drive-In Academy Awards
External links
References
- ^ My Own Vote Was Flipped, Brad Friedman, June 2008
- ^ Crock the Vote, The Beast, Nov. 2008, Edition #132
- ^ LATimes, Robert Salladay - 1/9/2007
- ^ Catherine Crier, Crier Live, Court TV - 7/11/2006
- ^ "The little blog that did", Dan Campana, Beacon News, 4/14/08
- ^ Glater, Jonathan (2005-03-14). "Liberal Bloggers Reaching Out To Major Media". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
- ^ Cardinale, Matthew (2008-11-03). "POLITICS-US: Vote-Flipping Reported on E-Voting Machines". www.ipsnews.net. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
- ^ Dickinson, Tim (2006-07-14). "DNC Demands "Swift and Verifiable" Recount in Race Marred by Diebold Machine "Sleepovers" : Rolling Stone : National Affairs Daily". www.rollingstone.com. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
- ^ Friedman Testimony to U.S. EAC - 4/24/08
- ^ Mieszkowski, Katharine (2006-11-22). "Did voting machines steal a Democratic victory?". Salon. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
- ^ Glater, Jonathan (2005-03-07). "At a Suit's Core: Are Bloggers Reporters, Too?". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
- ^ Zeller, Tom (2006-11-08). "Blogs Take Lead in Reporting Polling Problems, With Supporting Evidence on YouTube". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
- ^ Brad Friedman: Blog Bio & Testimonials...
- ^ Ordoña, Michael (2008-08-31). "'Stealing America': Voting-fraud documentary". San Francisco Chronicle. pp. N-24. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
- ^ "How did pollsters blow it in Clinton-Obama race?". The Seattle Times. 2008-01-10. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
- ^ BradBlog coverage of Coulter Fraud allegations
- ^ Greenwald, Glenn (2008-08-05). "The FBI's emerging, leaking case against Ivins - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com". www.salon.com. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
- ^ Brad Friedman media appearances