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It is time to issue a federal subpoena to find out exactly how officials “corrected� the vote.Why, you may ask?Because, as we learned yesterday, at least some of the certified electronic voting machines in the NY-23 congressional special election were discovered to be running malicious code (a virus) in the week prior to voting. We now hear word that election officials, According to the report, election officials, after cleaning only the identified machines, took no further action to re-certify other voting machines in the district. Although the technical nature of such a virus is interesting; it is difficult to adequately...

John Fund: The state has received a flood of 180,000 absentee ballot requests. On some 3,000 forms the signature doesn't match the one on file with county clerks. Yet citing concerns that voters would be disenfranchised, Democratic Party lawyer Paul Josephson wrote New Jersey's secretary of state asking her "to instruct County Clerks not to deny applications on the basis of signature comparison alone." Mr. Josephson maintained that county clerks "may be overworked and are likely not trained in handwriting analysis" and insisted that voters with suspect applications should be allowed to cast provisional ballots. Those ballots, of course, would...

The mayor of Racine, Wisconsin., resigned Tuesday. Gary Becker resigned in a one-sentence letter that made no reference to the six felonies he faces.

<p>I just saw this on Fox News by Carl Cameron.</p>

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A congressman under investigation for bribery was caught on videotape accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded, according to a court document released Sunday. Agents later found the cash hidden in his freezer. At one audiotaped meeting, Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., chuckles about writing in code to keep secret what the government contends was his corrupt role in getting his children a cut of a communications company's deal for work in Africa

Yes, we realize the election was more than a month ago, but here's a new analysis worth noting because of its major implications for future elections: Young Jews are fleeing the Democrat ghetto. Just as Latinos are escaping the Democrat barrio and blacks have begun to run from the Democrat plantation, Terry McAuliffe and company have a new migraine to cope with. "Several key demographic trends favored President Bush and foretell of possible future Republican success in Florida. President Bush defeated Senator Kerry with voters 18-24 years of age (3% to .5%), 25-40 year olds (12%-8%) and won the gender...

Third time's a charm: How the recount will work By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS On Monday, Secretary of State Sam Reed will officially order a statewide hand recount of votes cast in the Washington governor's race. Here is how it will work: THE WARMUP: Counties will need to hire and train temporary workers to recount the ballots by hand. Of course, they'll be competing against malls and other stores for seasonal workers. THE COUNTERS: Three-person teams will do the work, with two people counting the ballots and one recording the votes. King County elections officials plan to hire 160 temporary workers,...

Volunteers to seniors: Mark ballot for Kerry Translators 'helping elderly and immigrants' at polls in Philadelphia allowed into booths Posted: November 2, 20045:10 p.m. Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com PHILADELPHIA – Volunteers with a grass-roots organization in Philadelphia that purports to "help the elderly and immigrant voters get to the polls and understand the issues" are urging Russian-speaking voters in need of translation, or in a few cases are senile and have little grasp of the issues, to vote for Democrat Sen. John Kerry, and are going into the booths with some of them, WorldNetDaily has learned. The group, organized...

GOP sources on the scene in Michigan tell HUMAN EVENTS of "unbelievable Democratic illegalities." According to one source, operatives from the United Auto-Workers union and MoveOn.org are already denying GOP election volunteers access to voter rolls. Our sources also report that MoveOn.org members are campaigning inside the 100 foot perimeter. Developing...

<p>ON his debut day as a presidential candidate, Al Sharpton upstaged most other Democratic wannabes at the first 2004 cattle show and showed why he gives big-time agita to a lot of Dem strategists.</p> <p>His rivals embraced the driving force behind the Tawana Brawley hoax as an equal aspirant to the Oval Office and even competed to curry favor with him. Both former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts claimed Sharpton had offered them the vice presidency.</p>