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by nowness
Tue Nov 16th, 2004 at 19:57:13 PST

A self described Republican, who makes his living as a "white hat" security hacker, easily hacked Diebold's system, and states he'd be surprised if this election wasn't hacked.

What I found truly shocked me, and made me physically ill.  That's what is documented on the other page. It IS that bad. I personally don't have conclusive evidence that voter fraud was perpetrated, but I can tell you as an Information Security professional that it would have been very, very easy to do.

and he goes on to say how crooked the company is...

Check this out - No less than 5 of Diebold's developers are convicted felons, including Senior Vice President Jeff Dean, and topping the list are his twenty-three counts of felony Theft in the First Degree. According to the findings of fact in case no. 89-1-04034-1

Check out his site

(Thanks to someone on the openthread for the link)

by Chris Bowers

So, we didn't challenge Republican incumbent James Walsh in the NY-25, a district where Bush only received 45.3% of the vote in 2000. I have complained about this before. This story is exactly why I complain:

Republican Nancy Larraine Hoffmann, a state legislator for 20 years, on Monday conceded the race for the 49th state Senate district, according to her Democratic opponent.

Political newcomer David Valesky said Hoffmann conceded the election to him in a telephone call Monday evening. A telephone message left with Hoffmann's office was not immediately returned.

Onondaga County Election Committee workers were still counting absentee ballots as Republican attorneys challenged 400 votes. Valesky remained 443 votes ahead, according to Helen Kiggins of the elections committee, and the deficit appeared too large to overcome.

"I don't think it's going to change the results," Kiggins said.

Valesky, 38, a Democrat from Oneida, emerged from election night with 49,420 votes and a 1,278-vote lead. Hoffmann had 48,142 votes, and Conservative-Independence candidate Tom Dadey had 12,299 votes.

About half of the voters in the NY-25 congressional district are also in the NY-49 senatorial district. In 1992 and 1996, I voted for Hoffman. At that time, she was a Democrat. Between the 1996 and 2000 elections, she switched parties. James Walsh is the son of a congressmen who also represented Central New York--a Democratic congressmen who represented Central New York.

The parallels between the two campaigns are obvious. In both cases, you have a truly moderate Republican incumbent in a Democratic district (Walsh is regularly ranked among the top ten most liberal Republicans). In one case, we challenged the incumbent and won. In the other case, we didn't even put up a fight, and the seat was held by a Republican for free. Even if we has fought Walsh and lost, how many resources could we have drained from other Republican House campaigns? By fighting Marylin Musgrave and Tom DeLay, races that almost went uncontested, we drained $7M from other Republicans. Even though Ginny lost, she drained $3M from other Republicans.

There are thirty-nine other congressional seats held by Republicans in districts where Bush did not receive a majority of the vote in 2000. That is more than twice the number of seats we need to regain control of the House. In 2006, every single one should be challenged vigorously. Only by challenging everywhere can we we make Nancy Pelosi third in line for the Presidency.

by markusd
Wed Nov 17th, 2004 at 07:54:24 PST

NOTE: UPDATED - all the "negative red shift states" are out West (CORRECTION BY MARKUSD BASED ON A COMMENT - THEY'RE IN THE CENTRAL, MOUNTAIN OR PACIFIC TIME ZONES - NONE ARE IN THE EAST, AND THE BIGGEST ONES ARE ON THE COAST) - wonder why? See the UPDATE at the bottom of this diary.

The full 4 PM Exit Poll data - from all of the states - has been released, and is available for the first time, at:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm

A bit down in the article, they show all of the states along with their "red shift" - the percentage by which Bush's actual results were better than his exit poll results.  In 42 of the 51 cases, the red shift is positive.

AND a closer look on a state-by-state basis is even more revealing.  I've done some analysis that I think is worth considering.  

Which large states showed the largest red shifts?

Among them are:

NC with 8.  I have already posted a diary that many of you have seen that shows there are a lot of questions about North Carolina.

PA with 6.7 - One of the "big three" - OH, FL and PA - most observers believed that whichever candidate won 2 of these 3 was going to win the Presidency,  and that proved to be true.

OH with 6.2 - THE state that ultimately put Bush over the top - another "big three" state.

FL with 6 - Aside from 2000 and the fact that Jeb is still governor, I currently have a recommended diary up about Bev Harris and BBV finding possible evidence of fraud in Volusia County in FL - and, of course, the third "big three" state.

ALSO - Almost all of the states that had a NEGATIVE "red shift" - meaning Kerry did better than the exit polling - are small, with a few exceptions.  Among the few larger ones are OR and CA - Oregon has a mail-in/early voting system that is arguably harder to rig, and CA automatically verifies 1% of the precincts paper ballots against the reported totals as a safeguard against fraud.  Funny that the two states that are probably the hardest to rig are among the ONLY big states to have a negative "red shift", isn't it?

For the record - I am NOT claiming that this PROVES fraud.  I am claiming that it, combined with all of the other info that is starting to bear fruit, is yet more highly suggestive information that would lead a rational, analytical person to believe that fraud is likely and is very much worth further investigation - in spades.

UPDATE - Now that this has been recommended, I'll try to keep it up to date. And I've had a chance to do a bit more thinking about it as well.

Take a look at the states that have a "negative red shift" - funny how they're pretty much all in the west (CORRECTION BY MARKUSD - SOME CENTRAL AND MOUNTAIN, BIGGEST ONES ARE PACIFIC) (or REALLY far west, if you include Hawaii!). In other words, by the time their polls were closing, we had a pretty good idea that Bush was going to win. It may have taken another hour or two for the networks to offically call FL and OH, but any of us who were watching the returns at that point knew Kerry was done - as I'm sure the Bush team did too.

So, did they pass up committing any more shenanigans once they knew they had it? Why take any more chances than necessary, right?

Again, I am not claiming that this PROVES anything for sure, but the patterns are VERY suggestive. And I think this phenomenon of all the "negative red shift" states being out West further adds to the intrigue.

by pronin2
Wed Nov 17th, 2004 at 10:13:15 PST

DOnt know if this has been posted, but this came out today in Boston. according to this analysis the gop willfully cost kerry ohio. there is info in here that I never have either read or knew about. think just black voters were intimidated? think again. apprently young ones were as well...
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Questioning Ohio
No controversy this time? Think again.
BY DAVID S. BERNSTEIN

The Boston Phoenix

FOR AMERICANS, it's bad enough that the 2000 election was such a fiasco that our government felt compelled to bring in international election monitors from Vienna, as though we were some Third World banana republic rather than the world's oldest democracy. Worse, the monitoring group -- the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) -- left unimpressed.

 The OSCE won't issue a final report for another six weeks, but its preliminary findings (available at http://www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2004/11/3779_en.pdf) are a litany of "questions of possible conflict of interest," "widespread ... allegations of electoral fraud and voter suppression," "significant delays ... [that] may restrict the right to vote," "considerable confusion ... regarding the use of provisional ballots," "occasional faults and breakdowns of DRE [direct-recording equipment] machines," "concerns ... regarding the secrecy of the vote." Not only that, but "it was not clear that poll workers had generally received sufficient training to perform their functions."

On the plus side, the election "proceeded in an orderly and peaceful manner," the OSCE says. And according to many news reports, America was awfully glad, above all else, that there was no untidiness with this election. Once John Kerry conceded, it seemed, concerns about voter suppression, intimidation, and fraud could be safely ignored. The mainstream media refocused their attention on the Scott Peterson trial, while Internet bloggers chased phantom conspiracy theories into the void.

But there are at least two valid reasons why we should keep our eyes trained on November 2. First, a Phoenix analysis suggests that more Ohioans may have tried to vote for Kerry than for Bush, and couldn't -- in which case by rights W. should be packing his bags and shredding his files, rather than plotting his second-term agenda.

And besides -- isn't this kind of thing horrible even if it didn't happen to tip the election this time?

BUSH HAS, at the moment, won Ohio by 136,483 votes, but a number of considerations throw that lead into serious doubt. For one thing, that number will likely diminish when the state's approximately 155,000 provisional ballots are processed. Most of those who had to use provisional ballots probably were first-time voters whose names had not made it onto their precinct lists, observers say, and first-timers went 54-46 for Kerry in Ohio, according to exit polls.

Another 92,672 votes were discarded, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, mostly due to now-familiar problems with punch-card ballots. Those punch-card machines are -- surprise, surprise -- predominantly used in urban areas that tend to vote Democratic. In Cuyahoga County -- two-to-one Kerry country -- a voter reported misaligned holes and out-of-order pages on the punch ballots to Election Protection, a nonpartisan coalition of organizations led by People for the American Way Foundation, which was monitoring elections in select states, including Ohio.

Punch cards also probably slowed down the voting process, suggests Carlo LoParo, spokesperson for the Ohio secretary of state, as voters with memories of Florida made super-extra-sure to remove the chads they produce completely. "People were a little more methodical, making sure they didn't leave any hanging chads," agrees Dan Trevas, communications director for the Ohio Democratic Party.

But wait -- wasn't the Help America Vote Act of 2002 supposed to help rid states of these machines? Why, yes -- in fact, Ohio received $133 million from the federal government specifically to replace those old clunkers with new DRE and optical-scan machines. The state even contracted with venders. But then Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell -- a Republican -- had a change of heart. The technology was not sufficiently proven secure, he said. Nothing has been purchased. The $133 million stayed in the bank. "We weren't going to spend it on more punch-card machines," says LoParo. Or on more poll workers, or training, or any of that nonsense.

"There should have been a lot of effort [put into], instead of talking about challengers, talking about getting enough machines and getting ready to handle the large turnout," Trevas says.

THE CHALLENGERS Trevas has in mind were, of course, the Republicans deployed to polling places to make voters prove they weren't committing fraud. At the last minute, the state Republican Party finally won the right to carry out the plan from the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, after a lower-court judge had ruled that it would be too intimidating.

As it turns out, the Republican challengers were not especially disruptive, observers report. But they were one element in a broad pattern of alleged intimidation and deception. In Cuyahoga County, according to one Election Protection caller, black voters were asked to show ID, but white voters were not. In another area some African-Americans reportedly were redirected to incorrect polling places across town, says Scott Britton, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Ohio. According to multiple reports, in the days leading up to the election, phone calls and leaflets directed low-income and minority voters to incorrect polling locations. (Although some might not have been dirty tricks -- a Democratic get-out-the-vote group in Marion County was giving out a wrong address by mistake, Trevas says.)

There were cruder attempts at dissuasion as well, including leaflets seen in several parts of the state, including Columbus, informing voters that, due to high expected turnout, Republicans would vote Tuesday and Democrats would vote Wednesday. "I saw one of those leaflets," Trevas says. "There were a lot of dirty tricks."

Serious questions have also been raised about absentee ballots, which may have been withheld from those who requested them -- a problem in the Bay State as well. The single biggest election complaint in Massachusetts came from college students who sent for, but never received, absentee ballots from their home states, says David Harris, executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, in Boston. He received at least 50 such complaints from Harvard alone. The same problem reared its head at Boston University, says BU psychology professor Deborah Belle: more than a half-dozen of her students told her similar stories.

We don't know yet how many of those students were trying to vote in Ohio, but we do know that the Republican-led Ohio legislature prevented the elections department from implementing expedited absentee balloting and early voting, says Trevas. Then, Blackwell barred those who never received their absentee ballots from casting provisional ballots in person -- that is, until Election Day, when a Toledo woman filed and won a lawsuit against him in US District Court.

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MANY OF THOSE who did get to the polls had to wait ages to get to a booth. There were reports of waiting times of two-and-a-half-hours in Cleveland, five in Columbus, and six in the college town of Gambier.

This was all officially blamed on extraordinarily high turnout, but many disagree. After all, turnout was actually lower than predicted by the Secretary of State's office, and the increase from 2000 worked out to just 64 additional voters per Ohio precinct. "Everybody saw it coming -- the huge lines, the huge voter turnout," says Britton. "We're very concerned that county officials did not adequately prepare."

"It was poor planning, and I think you lay that on the head of the governor and secretary of state," Trevas says.

But Republican governor Bob Taft and Blackwell did prepare: they reduced the number of polling places, ensuring long lines.

As noted above, the state had been anticipating the purchase of DRE machines, which are both more expensive and -- at least in theory -- quicker. That meant, according to Blackwell, that counties could make do with fewer machines without affecting the lines, and fewer faster machines meant that counties could merge small precincts together to share them. The Republican-led legislature helped encourage precinct consolidation by raising the maximum allowable number of registered voters per precinct. So, some counties merged their polling places, cutting as many as 48 percent in some cases.

When the state suddenly nixed the new machines, those counties were left with fewer polling places for more voters, with the old slow machines, and about the same number of poll workers. Erie County consolidated 101 precincts in 2000 into just 62 this year. As a result, the average number of voters per precinct in Erie nearly doubled, from 355 to 640.

"Our county was in a budget crunch," says Ruth Leuthold -- Republican -- director of the Crawford County Board of Elections, which went from 67 precincts to 46. "We did it due to budgetary reasons, and to go to electronic voting."

The long lines were greatly exacerbated by the poll workers, whose average age was 78 statewide, according to Bryan Williams, director of the Summit County Board of Education.

And in case the octogenarians were too nimble, Williams -- Republican -- encouraged them to take their time. "At their training, I emphasized accuracy over speed," Williams says.

At one Columbus site, the head poll worker was a half-hour late to open up, "and things went downhill from there," reported the Columbus Dispatch. Several other poll workers in the county overslept, according to the paper. And oddly enough, the same thing happened in Cuyahoga County, where four polling places opened late, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Another poll worker was fired for showing up drunk.

Nobody in Columbus's Franklin County, including poll workers, could reach the elections-board office by phone -- even when machines broke, which was frequent. For a 45-minute stretch at one site, all three voting machines were inoperative, according to the Dispatch, which added that half of the 100 people in line left without voting.

Almost certainly, long lines disproportionately disenfranchise poorer, working-class voters, who tend to live in high-density city precincts, and have less flexibility in their schedules. "We heard of folks who were told by their bosses they have to get back to work instead of stay and vote," says Britton.

LoParo of the Secretary of State's office dismisses the concern, saying that "we have heard anecdotally" that only a few people showed up but didn't vote. But Ohio newspapers were filled with anecdotes to the contrary. And many people probably didn't bother to show up, as word about the long waits spread. "People were in line on their cell phones telling their friends not to try to take one hour to vote -- everybody was in line doing that when I went," Trevas says.

HERE'S THE rub: a Phoenix analysis shows that the precinct reductions disproportionately hurt Ohio's Democratic turnout.

Of Ohio's 88 counties, 20 suffered a significant reduction -- shutting at least 20 percent (or at least 30) of their precincts. Most of those counties have Republicans serving as Board of Elections director, including the four biggest: Cuyahoga, Montgomery, Summit, and Lucas.

Those 20 counties went heavily to Gore in 2000, 53 to 42 percent. The other 68 counties, which underwent little-to-no precinct consolidation, went exactly the opposite way in 2000: 53 to 42 percent to Bush.

In the 68 counties that kept their precinct count at or near 2000 levels, Kerry benefited more than Bush from the high turnout, getting 24 percent more votes than Gore did in 2000, while Bush increased his vote total by only 17 percent.

But in the 20 squeezed counties, the opposite happened. Bush increased his vote total by 22 percent, and Kerry won just 19 percent more than Gore in 2000.

If the reduced number of precincts in those counties accounts for the difference, it cost Kerry about 45,000 votes. And who knows what might have happened had the state increased polling places in anticipation of the high turnout it knew was coming? And if the state had encouraged voting rather than threatened to challenge credentials? And if there had been no dirty tricks and intimidation? And if all had received their absentee ballots?

Would we be preparing for a Kerry presidency? We'll probably never know.

Much of American "productivity," Rifkin suggests, is accounted for by economic activity that might be better described as wasteful: military spending; the endlessly expanding police and prison bureaucracies; the spiraling cost of healthcare; suburban sprawl; the fast-food industry and its inevitable corollary, the weight-loss craze. Meaningful comparisons of living standards, he says, consistently favor the Europeans. In France, for instance, the work week is 35 hours and most employees take 10 to 12 weeks off every year, factors that clearly depress GDP. Yet it takes a John Locke heart of stone to say that France is worse off as a nation for all that time people spend in the countryside downing du vin rouge et du Camembert with friends and family [...]

European children are consistently better educated; the United States would rank ninth in the EU in reading, ninth in scientific literacy, and 13th in math. Twenty-two percent of American children grow up in poverty, which means that our country ranks 22nd out of the 23 industrialized nations, ahead of only Mexico and behind all 15 of the pre-2004 EU countries. What's more horrifying: the statistic itself or the fact that no American politician to the right of Dennis Kucinich would ever address it?

Perhaps more surprisingly, European business has not been strangled by the EU welfare state; in fact, quite the opposite is true. Europe has surpassed the United States in several high-tech and financial sectors, including wireless technology, grid computing and the insurance industry. The EU has a higher proportion of small businesses than the U.S., and their success rate is higher. American capitalists have begun to pay attention to all this. In Reid's book, Ford Motor Co. chairman Bill Ford explains that the company's Volvo subsidiary is more profitable than its U.S. manufacturing operation, even though wages and benefits are significantly higher in Sweden. Government-subsidized healthcare, child care, pensions and other social supports, Ford says, more than make up for the difference.

The new EU constitution, currently being considered by the member states, is an unwieldy, jargon-laden document that runs to 265 pages in English (and even more in Spanish and French). It should also serve as an inspiration to progressives around the world. It bars capital punishment in all 25 nations and defines such things as universal healthcare, child care, paid annual leave, parental leave, housing for the poor, and equal treatment for gays and lesbians as fundamental human rights. Most of these are still hotly contested questions in the United States; as Rifkin says, this document all by itself makes the European Union the world leader in the human rights debate. It is the first governing document that aspires to universality, "with rights and responsibilities that encompass the totality of human existence on Earth."

Those of us who pine for the days of strong US international leadership can only cringe as this "might is right" administration continues to take the US down the path of international pariah. But if the EU can be looked at as an ideal, their story holds out hope for us.

The rise of the European Union may in fact, as Rifkin says, represent a new phase of history, and we barely saw it coming. While the outcome of this new cold war between Europe and America is far from clear, we should feel humbled by the way it's gone so far. The EU has succeeded so dramatically in its ambitious goals that the utopian dreamers of the last century who dared to imagine a peaceful, prosperous, united Europe seem eerily prescient now. If nothing else, it's an object lesson in the power of vision.

"I am a democrat," James Joyce wrote in 1916, while an entire generation of Europe's young men were slaughtering each other in the fields of Flanders. "I'll work and act for the social liberty and equality among all classes and sexes in the United States of the Europe of the future." People read that and laughed bitterly. Europe seemed poisoned by mustard gas and history; America was the land of liberty, democracy and the future. Nobody's laughing now.

The euro hits a new record high (via Atrios)

"There's an overwhelming belief ever since the U.S. elections that the dollar has got quite a way to go down," said Chris Furness, senior currency strategist for 4Cast research in London.

gold is up

Gold continued its push to higher ground Wednesday, consolidating its position at levels last seen more than 16 years ago. Spot gold was lately bid at $442.50 an ounce, up $2.70. Likewise, gold for December delivery rose $3.30 an ounce to stand at $433.80 in electronic trading

and consumer prices rise

retail consumer prices were up 4.2 percent in the month that saw oil futures reach record levels. Gasoline prices rose 8.6 percent during the month and heating oil was up 8.1 percent.

Over the long run, Bush's fiscal policies are bound to drive us into ruin.  Let's not forget that the Great Depression came in the middle of 12 years of uninterrupted Republican rule and rape of the economy.

This time around, we have 1) the budget deficit creating a lack of trust in our economy such that even the IMF is worried; 2) oil prices going through the roof as a result of the instability WE have created in the Middle East and the fact that China is buying up every spare drop of oil on the world markets; 3) the fact that the rest of the world hates us is not inspiring much interest in investing in the U.S.

With the dollar in free fall, interest rates on the way up, inflation rising, what's next?  Well, I overheard a little tidbit a couple of weeks ago at a meeting here in Washington to the effect that at the rate things are going, nobody will want to buy our bonds until they go into junk status.

Will it take another Great Depression to bring the Roosevelt coalition that Dean talks so much about back into existence?  Will the masses in the red states have to be starving before they realize that having a job and food on the table is more important than whether gays can marry?

TAKE ACTION: The Original GURLEY MAN Exposed in High Power job at RNC!

Lately, I never know what will happen when I call one of these gays responsible for gay bashing. But much to my surprise, Daniel Gurley, the NUMBER TWO POLITICAL OPERATIVE at the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE completely confirmed for me on the phone that yes, he's gay. Now, I know some readers have a tough time connecting the guy who manages all the money to the political hate...but could it be any clearer in this case? This man is paid, blogACTIVE readers, to supervise campaigns in the field and what a field day against gays he has been having! Unreal! You can read all about the phone call to Gurley in a well written article by John Byrne at Blue Lemur.

Amazingly, Gurley -- a REAL Gurley man -- joined the RNC in the dual roles of Deputy Political Director and National Field Director. Here's what the entry said at Dan's fraternity Alumni notes section:

Dan Gurley ’94 is the national field director for the Republican National Committee for the 2004 election cycle. He filled the number two political position at the RNC, assisting the re-election efforts of the Bush-Cheney ticket, along with targeted United States Senate, United States House and Governor races across the country.

Lucky for Dan, the undergraduates of his fraternity approved a clause protecting members based on their sexual orientation. Too bad his current employer has no such policy!

TAKE ACTION:

If you're as amazingly shocked as I am, take a moment, Click here and write to DAN GURLEY, JAY BANNING and others at the RNC and tell them how you feel about gay bashing. Ask Dan Gurley how he can sleep at night knowing that he is one of the people responsible for the anti-gay attacks being thrown by his party!!. A copy of your letter will be sent to a bunch of folks at the RNC who should be educated about their hateful campaigns.

These are GAY people BASHING GAY PEOPLE to grab power! Please speak up today!

Gurley Admits: Yes that was my Gay.com Screenname

Just hours after deleting his Gay.com profile, RNC National Field Director Daniel Gurley admited to Raw Story that DGCapitol was his handle on the male dating service and then tried to claim his name had been reused by someone else.

Nice try Dan....you're a liar! --

GAY.COM DOES NOT ALLOW

SCREENNAMES TO BE REUSED!

COMPLETE STORY AT

WWW.RAWSTORY.COM

Here is the profile DAN GURLEY LIED to the press about. Here is the Profile Dan Gurley pulled down TODAY:

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RNC Senior Staffer Seeks Others for Unsafe Sex! (Updated)

Dan Gurley
RNC National Field Director & Deputy Political Director

Apparently, some of the staff over at the Republican National Committee are not clear about President Bush’s abstinence before marriage program, or at least that’s what I discovered tonight over at www.gay.com. I was chatting over the Washington, DC chat room when I realized that Dan Gurley, the National Field Director of the RNC was in the same chat room I was in.

On November 5th -- just days after the election -- the Christian Science Monitor reported that:

Coming off an election in which many voters cited "morals" as a top concern, Bush may use that mandate to promote responsible fatherhood, abstinence-only sex education, and "healthy marriages" in the reauthorization of welfare reform.

Bush made campaign pledges to triple federal funds for abstinence programs in schools and community-based programs. (emphasis added)

blogACTIVE readers may recall my story of September 27th when I exposed the number two political operative of the RNC as a gay man. Here, in the midst of one of his party’s most homophobic campaigns, Dan Gurley was serving at the National Field Director of it all.

And now, in a slap in the face of the moral values wing of the party, this evening I discovered Mr. Gurley seeking unsafe sex with multiple partners, outside of his relationship. Apparently, the new rules of abstinence before marriage don’t apply to senior staff of the Republican Party. These people are PATHETIC!

When I was researching the original story on Dan Gurley I read a post about his RNC appointment which included his AOL emails (and thus instant messenger name). Because I wanted to give Mr. Gurley a chance to respond to my story, I added his AOL name, DGCapitol, to my AOL instant messenger list. Imagine my surprise when earlier tonight I saw someone with the same screenname in the gay.com chatroom!

For those of you unfamiliar with the abbreviations in the Chat Bio Line, above, this profile explains that the person lives on Capitol Hill, has pictures and his stats listed in his online profile (you can see the entire profile here.) Dan is looking to host others at his home. "bb" is the abbreviation for "barebacking" which is the term used by gay men who wish to engage in anal intercourse without a condom. R/t means "real time," or that the person is looking to meet in person. The line ends with the request to only send a private message if you have a picture to share.

UPDATE: Folks have asked me, "what is that graphic I am looking at?" When a user enters the gay.com chat room, a list of users is displayed. when you highlight one of the names, in this case, DGCapitol, the small picture appears along with a one line description which in this case is exaplained above.

Here are some other entries from Dan's profile:

Relationship status: an open relationship - Is this the family values bullshit that Mr. Gurley shoved down the nation's throat as NATIONAL FIELD DIRECTOR during the recent election campaign?

Politics: Lean right - Um, Dan, in case you did not notice, "way right" was also a choice here. Don't you think that it's more applicable to you and your day job?

Dan has this selection of photos on line:

Here's some of what visitors to gay.com see in Dan's "Adult" profile:

Now, for a quick peek under the cover...
Endowment/Dimensions: Above average, 8+ cut (not an internet 8, either)
I prefer to be: Switch/Versatile, I'll be whatever you want me to be!
I like to have sex...: 3-5 times a week, I'm usually ready...and available
Body Hair: Arms, Chest, Pits, Tummy, Legs, I shave occasionally, all over
In my own words: Just looking for good sex, whether with one or several. Always versatile and love to fool around. Race is not a factor, just be purportional [sic] and bring some personality with you.
Things I'm into: Anal sex, Body contact, Groups, Kissing, One-on-one, Oral sex, Porn

With all of these right wingers in DC running around looking for bareback sex with multiple partners, you think they would start some kind of club: Paging Andrew Sullivan...Andrew Sullivan, please call the RNC Political Office.

National Field Director for Republican Party sought unsafe sex, multiple partners online; Admits to profile but can’t recall content