20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA


	20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

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7-20-2008 12:28 AM

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<FONT size="5" face="Arial" color="#ff3399">20 Amazing 
                        Facts</FONT><SPAN><B><FONT size="5" face="Arial" color="#ff3399"> 
                        About 
Voting in the USA</FONT></B></SPAN></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nightweed.com/printableusavotefacts.html"><P align="left">
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      <B><FONT face="Arial" color="#ffffcc"><A href="http://nightweed.com/angrygirl.html" linkindex="1">
      <FONT size="2">Angry Girl</FONT></A></FONT></B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nightweed.com/printableusavotefacts.html"><FONT color="#000000">Did 
                        you know....</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nightweed.com/printableusavotefacts.html"><SPAN>1.  80% of all votes in America 
  are counted by only two companies:  Diebold and ES&S.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nightweed.com/printableusavotefacts.html"><H1>
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  <FONT size="2" face="Arial" color="black">
  <SPAN>2.  There is no federal agency 
  with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.</SPAN></FONT><FONT size="2"><SPAN>
  </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nightweed.com/printableusavotefacts.html"><SPAN>3.  The vice-president of 
  Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nightweed.com/printableusavotefacts.html"><SPAN>4.  The chairman and CEO of 
  Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he 
  was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president 
  next year."</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nightweed.com/printableusavotefacts.html"><SPAN>5.  Republican Senator Chuck 
  Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S.  He became Senator based on votes counted 
  by ES&S machines.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nightweed.com/printableusavotefacts.html"><SPAN>6.  Republican Senator Chuck 
  Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about 
  his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nightweed.com/printableusavotefacts.html"><SPAN>7.  Senator Chuck 
  Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.
  </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nightweed.com/printableusavotefacts.html"><SPAN>8.  ES&S is the largest voting 
  machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/42364359-1A89-4E51-8405-9F82A4EE9E63/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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