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Whatever you're hearing from your sources is not correct. You can call Dr. Merrill if you'd like more information. I've attached a copy of the poll, which as you will see has Mack and Hess in the questions.

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NY Times

Sequoia Voting Systems, was bought in March 2005 by the Smartmatic Corporation, a Venezuelan-owned software company who overhauled Venezuela’s electoral machinery before a referendum confirmed Hugo Chávez as president in August 2004.

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Kudos to Keith Olbermann, anchor of MSNBC’s “Countdown,” who last week, scolded President Bush for signing the Military Commissions Act of 2006. However, congress needs to be admonished for even approving such an unconstitutional act. It is truly a

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Washington Post

An overhaul in how states and localities record votes and administer elections since the Florida recount battle six years ago has created conditions that could trigger a repeat -- this time on a national scale -- of last week's Election Day debac

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By Paige St. John - FLORIDA CAPITAL BUREAU

Florida's ultra-light voter turnout dismayed elections workers, political candidates and civil-rights activists across the state, who blamed everything from the weather to public cynicism.

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LA Times

Lawmakers sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a bill Wednesday that would make California the first state to jump aboard a national movement to elect the president by popular vote. Under the legislation, California would grant its electoral votes to t

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Reuters

A Florida judge barred enforcement of a state law that imposed fines on civic groups for failing to meet state deadlines in their voter registration drives, ruling the law violated free-speech rights and discriminated against the groups.

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Christian Science Monitor

In Arizona, an initiative on this fall's ballot calls for rewarding one lucky voter with a $1 million prize, just for going to the polls. In Florida, some communities are switching local elections from March to November, in an effort to increa

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Nightweed

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only 2 companies. Diebold and ES&S. 2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the US voting maching industry. 3. The vice-president of Diebold and the

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To be a German, one must be born in Germany. To be an Italian, one must be born in Italy. To be a Mexican, one must be born in Mexico. To be a South African, one must be born in South Africa. To be Chinese, one must be born in China. To be Japan

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AP

A fractured Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that states are free to redraw congressional districts whenever they want, largely blessing Tom DeLay's bitterly contested handiwork in Texas and the gains it gave national Republicans.

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by Mark Davis for Strike-the-Root.com

Questioning state authority is considered a sin by those who worship it. Negative comments about the state and its agents challenge the core beliefs of those who believe that benevolent rulers can be created out of the magical democratic process.

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Christian Science Monitor

A bunch of states team up and give all their electoral college votes to the nationwide popular-vote winner, regardless of who won the most votes in their state. Then, the candidate who garners the most citizen votes in the country moves into the Whit

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Associated Press

On what would become known as "Bloody Sunday," voting rights marchers in March 1965 reached the highest point on the Edmund Pettus Bridge near Selma, Ala., and saw a blue sea of uniforms awaiting them at the end of the bridge.

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