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turbokid
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mildly interesting..
as if the vote wasnt suspect enough

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The NY Times editorial board sees a problem with a defense contractor, that has a strong corporate interest in the outcome of presidential elections, having any role in the counting of votes, should the takeover succeed.

http://****.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/defense-contrac.html

it might be of note that in 2006 66% of their donations went to republicans.

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so turbo does that mean democrats are 44% guilty to the republican 66% as well?

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it's really very simple.

the military ran a couple of good elections in Afghanistan and Iraq.

sure BUSH picked the candidates, but the vote and the counting of the vote was high quality.

lets do that here, so friggin what if we have to wait 48 hours to find out who won, that's better than the winner being picked by some "black box" maker lobbyist group.

demand to be allowed to vote with a:

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quote:
Originally posted by CashCowMoo:
so turbo does that mean democrats are 44% guilty to the republican 66% as well?

im not quite sure what you mean buddy but i was just pointing out that the company who may be in charge of counting the votes leans a certain way politically. not to mention they are a defense contractor. what are the odds of a defense contractor prefering an anti-war president?

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