Today we are going to have a change of pace and introduce a new word to the vocabulary of some. This is actually a word that I heard for the first time a couple days ago and I like learning new words. Today's word is "obscurantism". What does obscurantism have to do with voting issues you ask? Obscurantism ('tist) is defined as the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known. There are two common senses of this: (1)opposition to the spread of knowledge"”a policy of withholding knowledge from the general public; and (2) a style (as in literature or art) characterized by deliberate vagueness or abstruseness. It seems to me that the voting machine vendors are an excellent example of both definitions of obscurantist....

• National: Some Homeless Citizens Face 'Roadblocks' When Registering
  http://www.votetrustusa....8;id=2929&Itemid=26
• National: Greens launch effort against Electoral College manipulation of presidential elections
  http://www.independentpo...-presidential-elections/
• National: Questions to Ponder as We Hurl Toward November
  http://www.opednews.com/...an-Guest-080806-202.html
• CT: VA, state reach deal on voter sign-ups
  http://www.nhregister.co...ept_id=635049&rfi=6
• FL: Broward County - Goodbye touch screens, hello paper as Florida changes how we vote
  http://weblogs.sun-senti...ch_screens_hello_pa.html
• FL: Indian River County - Race for Indian River Supervisor of Elections crowded
  http://www.tcpalm.com/ne...ions-supervisor-crowded/
• HI: Akaka pushes for more voter assistance at VA medical sites and homes
  http://www.honoluluadver...080017/-1/LOCALNEWSFRONT
• KS: Shawnee Co. mistake doesn't alter outcome; No big problems in Riley
  http://www.themercury.co...e2384871a7b133ddcda00c4b
• MO: Voter Arrested After Not Showing Photo ID
  http://www.myfoxkc.com/m...e=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1
• OH: More on Those Voting Machines in Ohio
  http://voices.washington...ose_voting_machines.html
• OH: Ohio Sues Over Trouble With Voting Machines
  http://www.washingtonpos.../07/AR2008080703083.html
• OH: Ohio official sues e-voting vendor for dropped votes
  http://www.networkworld....ting-vendor.html?hpg1=bn
• OH: Electronic Voting Machines At Center Of Ohio Lawsuits
  http://www.informationwe...html?articleID=210000402
• PA: Schuylkill County - Commissioners move to pay bill for 20 touch-screen voting machines
  http://www.republicanher...oners_s1.1863917_loc.txt

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