[MCM] Irish dump e-voting, go back to hand-counting paper ballots

2009-04-27 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
Irish reject e-voting, go back to paper http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/irish-reject-e-voting-go-back-to-paper.arshttp://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/irish-reject-e-voting-go-back-to-paper.ars The Irish government has given up on e-voting and is moving back to paper.

[MCM] Must-read piece on the secret count in Pima County, AZ

2009-04-27 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
From Dave Griscom: I have just blogged an article by attorney Bill Risner recently submitted as a Letter to the Editor of the Tucson Citizen, a daily newspaper. Since it does not seem to have been published yet, I have composed my own title for it: http://impactglassman.blogspot.com/AZ

[MCM] FL election bill is STILL A THREAT!

2009-04-27 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
From: mailto:kind...@comcast.netKindra Muntz: Everyone, We are not out of the woods yet. Keep the pressure on, and get the message to voters in every county in Florida to call their State Senator and Representative to KILL the elections bill. We don't want it IN ANY FORM. We don't need it.

[MCM] John Gideon ailing

2009-04-27 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
Some dreadful news about John Gideon, a heroic election integrity activist, and the driving force behind Daily Voting News. MCM http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7102http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7102 Blogged by Brad Friedman on 4/27/2009 12:29PM News About Our Friend John Gideon... Some troubling

[MCM] Apologists for torture just won't quit

2009-04-27 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
The tribunes of the right are standing up for torture--which Joe Scarborough has now justified as an expression of rational fear, while David Frum asserts, against all evidence, that we don't know whether BushCo's torture program helped ensure the nation's safety.

[MCM] Harper's cover story, Jesus Killed Muhammad, on newsstands tomorrow!

2009-04-27 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
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