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riqster

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16. Not in 2000. They hadn't built the infrastructure yet.

Reply to grasswire (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 26, 2013, 10:17 AM

Dec 2013

It took HAVA to make such things possible.

In 2004, maybe-but it was safer to just let the Repube-owned voting industry do the dirty deeds. As Rep. King said, "we'll take care of the counting".

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