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"Federal agents and city police are keeping tabs on people they say might try to cause trouble at the Republican National Convention, questioning activists, making unannounced visits and monitoring Web sites and meetings. ... The intelligence unit of the New York Police Department ...
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"It's amazing how far the reputation of electronic voting has fallen," writes Center for Media and Democracy researcher Diane Farsetta.
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Florida's Republicans are getting mixed signals about November.
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The Richmond Organization, a humor-challenged corporation that owns the copyright to Woody Guthrie's classic folk song, "This Land Was Made For You and Me," is suing over a hilarious parody that uses Guthrie's song to lampoon George W. Bush and John Kerry. Columnist Dan Gillmor points out that the company is "dishonoring Woody Guthrie's memory, not that it seems to care.
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"One cannot conceive of other elements [that could be] put in place to create a space that's more of an affront to the idea of free expression," said U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock, after touring the Democratic National Convention's "free speech" protest zone in Boston. The zone is "bordered by cement barriers, a double row of chain-line fencing, heavy black netting, and tightly woven plastic mesh," with "coils of razor wire" along elevated train tracks.
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As "voters took to the streets in 19 states ... to protest paperless electronic voting machines" at "The Computer Ate My Vote" rallies, the high-tech industry lobby group Information Technology Association of America fought back.
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The former head of a GOP Marketplace, a Republican consulting group, has pleaded guilty to jamming get-out-the-vote efforts on election day in New Hampshire two years ago. The company used computer-generated phone calls to flood phone lines that were set up so voters could call for rides to the polls.
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Bowing to the demands of hundreds of angry members, the League of Women Voters has rescinded its support of paperless voting machines. About 800 delegates who attended LWV's biennial convention in Washington voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution that supports "voting systems and procedures that are secure, accurate, recountable and accessible."
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The New York Times editorializes, "Voters should have complete confidence about their ballots' being counted accurately and ...
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Bush administration plans for "the world's wealthiest nations to declare their support for democracy in the Middle East" at the G8 Summit this week are backfiring. The declaration "has strained relations with several important allies in the Arab world," including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Morocco, Egypt and Pakistan.
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