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Chris Jackson has spent most of the last two years in politics. For eight months, he was a field organizer for the Dean campaign in New Hampshire. Then, for the general election, he took a job helping America Votes??a consortium of progressive 527s including America Coming Together, the Sierra Club and the Service Employees International Union—coordinate their operation...
Northern Michigan, currently ranked No. 15, began the season ahead of the Crimson within the “also receiving votes?? category, then slid into the top 15 when Dartmouth and Miami plummeted. The Wildcats’ record, 6-4-2, isn’t nearly so solid as Harvard’s 5-3-1, though. Only one of their wins has come against a team with a winning record, while this nationally ranked school has twice lost to and twice tied a sub-.500 team...
...where votes are recorded in large part by older optical scanning equipment, reported a total of 7 such incidents out of nearly 3 million ballots—one for every 500,000 or so votes cast. Palm Beach County had 27 machine related incidents out of their 550,000 votes??each voter there was roughly three times more likely to report trouble with their equipment than a voter was here...
...official victory for President Bush in Ohio would leave him with at least 269 electoral votes??enough to secure a second term with a tie-breaking vote in the Republican-dominated House of Representatives...
...Diebold, anyway? Perhaps most notably, a company that has donated over $400,000 to the Republican Party in the last four years, and whose CEO has been quoted as saying that he would help “deliver Ohio’s electoral votes?? to President Bush. Of course, it’s impossible to prove that Diebold effectively rigged Georgia’s election, but that’s exactly the point. As long as their code is proprietary—and it is—no one can. Ask a lawyer to prove a case...