Category: election
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A Vote’s Value
There are many people in the US who could care less if they vote or not. They think there vote is worth nothing. Here's somebody who values their vote.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061110/ts_nm/life_stamp_dc" >Absentee Florida ballot sent with precious stamp</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Florida voter may have unwittingly lost hundreds of thousands of dollars by using an…
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Interesting
I note that before the election one of the many things I read on left facing blogs was vote fraud and how they were expecting it during the election. They pointed at the last Presidential election as proof of this. Now that they won big, why haven't we heard anything about voting fraud? Why is…
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Much Ado About Nothing/Something
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/31/news/state/65-tester.txt">Unlicensed Tester butchered neighbor's animals, wasn't cited</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jon Tester never had a state-required license for the butchering business he ran at his Big Sandy-area farm, but state records show an inspector visited the shop, but did not cite Tester for breaking the law.<br />n<br />nTester cut meat on an…
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Voting
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/02/news/local/30-vote.txt">Absentee ballots pour into election office"</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>An old election quip encourages the electorate "to vote early and often." Nowadays the first half of the maxim is legal and popular as a record number of voters cast their ballots before election day.<br />n<br />n"It is a growing trend," said Duane Winslow, Yellowstone County election…
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Pull Out
I have been watching the whole Burns/Abramoff situation and have not been surprised by any of it. The <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/09/news/state/20-abramoff.txt">newest information</a> coming out on the case leads me to think only one thing. Burns needs to pull out of his re-re-election campaign and let some candidate that doesn't have such a stain on him run…