Florida Going To Paper Ballots For 2008

   Since it all started in Florida back in the 2000 presidential appointment, it is only appropriate that the state of Florida would now shift to a voting system of casting paper ballots over the touch-screen system now in use.

   The paper ballots will be counted by a scanning machine and the system will be ready just in time for the 2008 elections, according to The New York Times.

By ABBY GOODNOUGH and CHRISTOPHER DREW
Published: February 2, 2007

Voting experts said Florida’s move, coupled with new federal voting legislation expected to pass this year, could be the death knell for the paperless electronic touch-screen machines. If as expected the Florida Legislature approves the $32.5 million cost of the change, it would be the nation’s biggest repudiation yet of touch-screen voting, which was widely embraced after the 2000 recount as a state-of-the-art means of restoring confidence that every vote would count.

NYTimes Article

 

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Holding Bush Back from Attacking Iran

By Marjorie Cohn, Alter Net  Posted February 2, 2007.

Bush will not likely ask permission to make war on Iran, and it's up to Congress to stop him

 Bush is rattling the sabers and opting for gunboat diplomacy by pledging to "seek out and destroy" Iranian networks "providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies" in Iraq. But he has produced no hard evidence that Iran is supplying forces in Iraq with such weapons or manufacturing their own nuclear weapons.

On Tuesday, the administration stepped up its inflammatory rhetoric. US officials said Iranians may have trained attackers who killed five Americans in Karbala on January 20. They also implicated the Mahdi Army, the militia controlled by Moktada al-Sadr. It's very interesting that the New York Times characterized the focus on Iran and the Mahdi Army as "convenient from the point of view of the Bush administration."

Investigators were stumped at how the attackers, who wore American-style uniforms, secured forged US identity cards and American-style M-4 rifles, and used stun grenades like those used only by US forces. They are also confounded at the way the attackers' convoy of S.U.V.'s gave the impression that it was American and slipped through Iraqi checkpoints. Wednesday's article in the Times cites a theory that "a Western mercenary group" may have been involved. In the past the US government used the CIA to covertly overthrow governments, such as Iran's in 1953 and Chile's in 1973. Could mercenaries now be doing the Bush administration's dirty work?                Entire Article

   I actually have no comment on this story as we all know that Bush has been full of shit from the day he first stepped into office. Nothing that this devil does or has done by others can surprise me anymore.

    It is up to our congress to get off of their asses and to stop this clown from getting us all attacked and killed by the many countries that have grown to dislike the United States because of this asshole.

    In case you did not know it, many foreign countries think that the American people approve of Bush since you re-elected him a second time. This makes it look as if he has the American citizens support in all that he does. NOT a good thing!

 

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