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[font face="Times New Roman,serif"]FL governor recommends replacing with scanners; 'It's the [a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4097"]machines[/a], stupid.
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Gov. Crist to recommend ditching touch-screen machines[/font]
[span id="byline"]By Anthony Man[/span]
[span id="titleline"]South Florida Sun-Sentinel[/span]
[span id="date"]Posted January 30 2007, 5:18 PM EST
[/span][/font][font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);" face="Verdana,Arial, Helvetica" size="2"] Gov. Charlie Crist is preparing to recommend that the controversial touch-screen voting machines used in Broward, Palm Beach and 13 other Florida counties be scrapped and replaced with optical scanners that would count paper ballots.
U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton, said the governor would recommend spending at least $20 million on optical scanners for the 15 counties with touch-screen machines when he presents his proposed budget to the state Legislature on Friday.
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[/td][/tr][/tbody][/table][br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);"][span style="font-weight: bold;" class="rss:item"][/span]The Overwhelmingly Fascist Media, eager to further aggrandize its monopoly and erode anti-trust laws and reduce resistance from its host like an aggressive cancer, has dispensed its vile whores to disseminate lies to further its anti-democratic cause, has been supportive of anti-American forces in a War Against American Voters. In such circumstances, some brave freedom-loving American heroes have stepped up to the plate and risked and sacrificed much to protect America's democracy and spread the news that the corporate media has strived to suppress. Among these American heroes are whistle-blower Stephen Heller who suffered an onslaught of legal persecution from Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley -- Diebold's dirty and corrupt bitch -- for exposing plans by Diebold to compromise elections in California. While the shameful corporate media whores -- who are clearly only in it for the money -- shamefully disseminated fascist lies hiding or misreporting one of the biggest threat against America's democracy in history, such ethical Americans as Bev Harris of [a href="http://www.blackboxvoting.org"]www.blackboxvoting.org[/a], Brad Friedman of [a href="http://www.bradblog.com"]www.bradblog.com[/a], and the investigative journalists (an almost extinct breed) at [a href="http://www.therawstory.com"]www.rawstory.com[/a] courageously exposed the danger, often fighting lawsuits and even threats to their lives to do so.
