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Monday, November 8, 2004 |
You haven't yet got rid of your anger? Click the image.
Also metaphorically, stick it to Bush, haunt him and his supporters with his failures.
3:36:34 PM 
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Scotsman: "Tony Blair could be entitled to claim more public money after he retires than he currently receives as his prime ministerial salary, it has emerged.
And the generosity of the state-funded pensions and other allowances available to a retiring premier are likely to be dwarfed by the millions Mr Blair will be able to earn for his memoirs and appearances on the US lecture-tour circuit.
The Prime Minister's extremely healthy financial prospects help explain how Mr Blair and his wife, Cherie, have been able to buy a £3.6 million town house on London's Connaught Square, despite the £15,000 monthly mortgage payment being beyond their current earnings."
1:06:57 PM
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The Yes Men: "Small-time criminals impersonate honest people in order to steal their money. Targets are ordinary folks whose ID numbers fell into the wrong hands.
Honest people impersonate big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them. Targets are leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of everything else."
12:07:13 PM
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Infozine: "Voters from at least half a dozen states reported that touch-screen voting machines had incorrectly recorded their choices, including for president.
Voters discovered the problems when checking the review screen at the end of the voting process. They found, to their surprise, that the machines indicated that they voted for one candidate when they had voted for another. When voters tried to correct the problem, the machine often made the same error several times. While in most cases the situation was reportedly resolved, many voters remain uneasy about whether the proper vote was ultimately cast. Meanwhile, voting experts are concerned that other voters are experiencing the problem, but failing to notice that the machine is indicating the wrong choice on the 'summary' screen.
Election observers with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Verified Voting Foundation (VVF) reported yesterday that the problem, which some voting officials initially attributed to 'voter error', is evidently widespread and may even be relatively common with touch-screen machines. Incorrectly recorded votes make up roughly 20 percent of the e-voting problems reported through the Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS), an online database in which volunteers with the Election Protection Coalition, a coalition of non-partisan election observers dedicated to preventing voter disenfranchisement, are recording and tracking voting problems."
Lisa Rein: "Three congressmen sent a letter to the General Accounting Office on Friday requesting an investigation into irregularities with voting machines used in Tuesday's elections."
Truthout: "Some of the problems with this past Tuesday's election will sound all too familiar. Despite having four years to look into and deal with the problems that cropped up in Florida in 2000, the 'spoiled vote' chad issue reared its ugly head again.
Investigative journalist Greg Palast, the man almost singularly responsible for exposing the more egregious examples of illegitimate deletions of voters from the rolls, described the continued problems in an article published just before the election, and again in an article published just after the election.
Four years later, and none of the Florida problems were fixed. In fact, by all appearances, they spread from Florida to Ohio, New Mexico, Michigan and elsewhere. Worse, these problems only scratch the surface of what appears to have happened in Tuesday's election. The fix that was put in place to solve these problems - the Help America Vote Act passed in 2002 after the Florida debacle - appears to have gone a long way towards making things worse by orders of magnitude, for it was the Help America Vote Act which introduced paperless electronic touch-screen voting machines to millions of voters across the country."
The voting machine industry is in the hands of ultra-conservatives.
11:55:28 AM
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