It took Zealand to put the 'New' in News

Crooks & Liars informs us the we needed to find out from New Zealand that Speaker Denny Hastert "nullified the San Diego Congressional race" when he swore in the Republican candidate while the election result was being contested by his Democratic opponent who cited many irregularities. The article began with "It appears the US media overlooked one of the great political stories of the year. In what is becoming something of a pattern"

In a filling in San Diego Municipal Court yesterday, attorney Paul Lehto outlined the core in stark terms:

Defendants are in effect arguing for the remarkable proposition that unilateral self-serving actions by a majority party in the House of Representatives to shuttle in a member of the same party can be effective, even if those actions do violence to and amount to circumvention of other sections of the US Constitution as well as the California constitution. Document available here.

Lehto is one of the two attorneys representing citizens who are challenging the election. Shortly after the last vote was cast, citizens discovered disturbing facts. Prior to Election Day, several poll workers had taken home voting machines for periods of a day to a week at a time without supervision or even consistent tracking procedures. Other irregularities like vote switching on touch screen machines emerged. Brad Friedman of www.BradBlog.com conducted an extensive investigation that uncovered a series of sloppy procedures by County Registrar Haas.