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Who's Blocking Verified E-Voting?

ClarkEvans writes "The NY Times has a great editorial today calling out the League of Women Voters for their counter-productive lobbying against verified voting. The article states that Diebold voting systems has given lots of dough to these opposition groups." There's an AP story about the issue as well.

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  1. Re:Bad scenario by mmkay76 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What "deceit leading up to Iraq"?

    Everyone knew that Saddam had WMD at some point and that he was hiding something from the UN.

    UN weapons experts showed this week that banned material is being looted and sent to other countries. Some untagged (undeclared) rocket components were discovered in Syrian scrap heaps along with tagged components and UN satellite photos showed a rapid dismantling of a missle site near Bagdhad from May '03 to Feb '04 (but couldn't we have done this? I don't get that part).

    "It raises the question of what happened to the dual-use equipment, where is it now and what is it being used for,"

    http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/10/international/ mi ddleeast/10nati.html?ex=1087444800&en=f4fa48e2466b 092b&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

    Have all the facts before you start calling people liars!

  2. Re:Bad scenario by mmkay76 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, a Jordanian scrap yard. http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=mozclient&ie= UTF-8&oe=utf-8&hl=en&edition=us&newsclusterurl=htt p://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer%3Fpagename%3 DFT.com/StoryFT/FullStory%26c%3DStoryFT%26cid%3D10 86445589393