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   the_zapkitty said on 9/16/2007 @ 9:49pm PT: [Permalink]

   Could it be that Holt and company insisted on playing their silly-ass head games and now they’re whining to John Gideon about the backlash?

   Has it occured to Holt and company that there’s several good reasons as to why their bill is getting such a poor reception… and that those reasons are why the only “good media” for Holt’s Fiasco has been media one-shots isolated from public commentary? (media hit-and-runs, really) Hmmm? I just thought I’d ask… 😉

   Also… if they’d just stop lying and tell the same story twice in a row it might help some… it might…

   “NAtional: The House of Representatives could vote as early as this week on an important bill that would help restore confidence in our election system. LINK”
   

   Obviously whoever wrote that piece for a local paper is unaware that Hoyer’s price for “fixing the time problems” is that all the parts of the bill that people want are to be put on hold… no paper trails or audits or anything at all that costs money in 2008… if ever… and all the unacceptable portions of the bill are to go into effect immediately.

   That means that the parts of the bill establishing permanent enshrinement of DRE’s in our elections with no exit strategy and the parts of the bill changing the balance of power in election control permanently from the states to the Executive Branch of federal government via the partisan, corrupt and scandal-plagued “Election Assistance Commission” (that means elections run by Bush and Cheney operatives for those readers who are slow on the uptake and no, that wasn’t meant as a joke.) and the parts of the bill mandating permanent corporate control of secret vote counting software in our elections…

   … all that will take effect immediately no matter what else happens with the bill.

   Funny how these known and easily verifiable facts never make it into the “sheltered” media pieces Holt and company have been reduced to using…

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   Dredd said on 9/17/2007 @ 7:14am PT: [Permalink]

   John,

   Your clarification will draw flies. Only one blogger here has posted the actual text of various bills.

   The text of any bill is where the truth lies 🙂 according to those in the no no gadfly party. Apologists say the truth lies. Go figure oxymorons.

   Meanwhile Microsoft has been ordered to share its source code with competitors in the EU. Don’t know if that means there will be an impact on electronic voting machine source code exposure here in the US or not.

   And Blackwater’s license to kill has been pulled by Iraq, which may effect elections there.

   But none of this matters 🙂 .

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   kyle said on 9/17/2007 @ 8:29am PT: [Permalink]

   {Ed Note: Deleted. Same Obama video comment has now been spammed over several items. Please knock it off, or your will be banned from posting at all. Thanks! — BF}

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   the_zapkitty said on 9/17/2007 @ 9:21am PT: [Permalink]

   Holt’s Fiasco must be coming up for consideration again because…

   “Only one blogger here has posted the actual text of various bills”…

   … Dredd’s gone all alternative reality on us again 😉