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WI bill will require paper trail for electronic voting machines in WI

12 November 2005 - 1 comment

HOORAY! With only four dissenting votes, the state Assembly easily passed a bill that would require that electronic voting machines create a paper record. The goal of the legislation is to make sure that Wisconsin’s soon-to-be-purchased touch screen machines create a paper ballot that can be audited to verify election results. “Wisconsin cannot go down [...]

you know your country is in bad shape when you read a pat buchanan article and it makes you wax nostalgic for the reagan years

11 November 2005 -

Pat Buchanan wrote this article in Human Events. Some excerpts: Under Bush II, social spending has exploded to levels LBJ might envy, foreign aid has been doubled, pork-at-every-meal has become the GOP diet of choice, surpluses have vanished, and the deficit is soaring back toward 5% of GDP. Bill Clinton is starting to look like [...]

Kuro5hin article on riots in France

8 November 2005 -

Kuro5hin has a very well put together article on the current rioting in france. link