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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (5051)	9/25/2003 5:38:25 PM
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GENERAL CLARK PRAISED CONDI, POWELL, RUMSFELD AND BUSH: 'WE NEED THEM THERE' World Exclusive Democratic presidential hopeful General Wesley Clark offered lavish praise for the Bush Administration and its key players in a speech to Republicans -- just two years ago, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal! MORE During extended remarks delivered at the Pulaski County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner in Little Rock, Arkansas on May 11, 2001, General Clark declared: "And I'm very glad we've got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Paul O'Neill - people I know very well - our president George W. Bush. We need them there." MORE Clark praised Reagan for improving the military: "We were really helped when President Ronald Reagan came in. I remember non-commissioned officers who were going to retire and they re-enlisted because they believed in President Reagan." Clark continued: "That's the kind of President Ronald Reagan was. He helped our country win the Cold War. He put it behind us in a way no one ever believed would be possible. He was truly a great American leader. And those of us in the Armed Forces loved him, respected him, and tremendously admired him for his great leadership." Clark on President George Bush: "President George Bush had the courage and the vision... and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship." Clark on American military involvement overseas: "Do you ever ask why it is that these people in these other countries can't solve their own problems without the United States sending its troops over there? And do you ever ask why it is the Europeans, the people that make the Mercedes and the BMW's that got so much money can't put some of that money in their own defense programs and they need us to do their defense for them?" "And I'll tell you what I've learned from Europe is that are a lot of people out in the world who really, really love and admire the United States. Don't you ever believe it when you hear foreign leaders making nasty comments about us. That's them playing to their domestic politics as they misread it. Because when you talk to the people out there, they love us. They love our values. They love what we stand for in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights." drudgereport.com

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (5051)	9/25/2003 7:09:47 PM
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (5051)	9/26/2003 8:21:08 AM
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (5051)	9/26/2003 9:14:16 AM
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (5051)	10/6/2003 12:57:20 PM
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Computer scientists fear voter fraud California’s touch-screen machines under scrutiny ASSOCIATED PRESS msnbc.com SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 6 — Punch-card ballots from Tuesday’s historic recall election are sure to get a going-over by political activists, but some computer scientists think touch-screen voting machines deserve just as much scrutiny. WHILE PUNCH-CARD ballots caused headaches for Florida election officials with their “hanging” and “pregnant” chads, 10 percent of the touch-screen machines in California don’t produce paper printouts. And no printouts, the scientists say, would make a legitimate recount impossible. “You can’t do a meaningful recount if the question is about the integrity of the voting machines themselves,” said David Dill, a computer science professor at Stanford University. He urged voters in the four counties using touch-screen terminals to vote with absentee ballots. The concern of Dill and some of his colleagues was dismissed as overblown and irresponsible by county registrars and executives at the companies that sell and update the electronic voting machines. None of the elections officials who supervise the 50,000 touch-screen machines serviced nationwide by Diebold Election Systems has reported glitches or computer hacks that have resulted in known miscounts or fraud, said Mark Radke, director of the voting industry division of North Canton, Ohio-based Diebold. But according to a July study by Johns Hopkins and Rice universities, any clever hacker could break into Diebold’s system and vote multiple times. Researchers found it was theoretically possible to insert “back doors” into software code that would allow hackers — or insiders — to change future voters’ choices and determine the outcome. Activists are demanding that ballot machine vendors include printers that produce paper receipts so citizens can confirm that paper results match their touch-screen choices. Receipts would go into a county lock-box for use in recounts. “It’s horrifying and ridiculous that these machines don’t have a voter-verifiable audit trail,” said Rebecca Mercuri, a Harvard University research fellow who specializes in computer security and voting systems. ACLU WATCHING Officials from one affected county, Riverside County, have “total confidence” in the electronic system used by its 650,000 voters, said Mischelle Townsend, registrar of voters. On election day the county tests all 4,250 touch-screens for logic and accuracy, confirming that a “yes” vote is recorded as a “yes,” Townsend emphasized. “The machines have always been adjudicated to be reliable and accurate,” said Townsend, who has supervised 19 touch-screen elections and five recounts since November 2000. “There’s never been a single incident of what the scientists fear.” After polls close, elections officials make another accuracy check. They get printouts for 1 percent of voters in every precinct and compare the digital record with the printouts. Electronic voting advocates acknowledge no system is perfect but say touch-screen machines are better than older technology. The ACLU is watching closely for evidence of voter disenfranchisement, as is the California Democratic Party, which began soliciting $100,000 this week for a “No More Floridas!” campaign to scrutinize alleged violations. The computer scientists will be watching as well, looking for statistical anomalies in touch-screen counties. “The very thought of a recount — it’s chilling,” said Alameda County assistant registrar Elaine Ginnold. “We’re all hoping there will be a huge margin because a recount would plug things up for quite a while.”