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To: Doug R who wrote (465833)	9/27/2003 4:46:53 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

Black Box Voting -- Backgrounder listener.co.nz From the New Zealand Listener, Aug. 1, 2003 What do possible election fraud in the United States and a small, independent website based in New Zealand have in common? The word "scoop". It's an unassuming place from the street, a quiet backwater in a Wellington suburb. A little unkempt, the house of someone unconcerned with external appearances. The lawn doesn't appear to have met a mower that it couldn't tame and the paint is cracked and dry. But then Alastair Thompson has other things on his mind, notably the story he calls "bigger than Watergate". It broke a couple of weeks ago on Thompson's Scoop website (www.scoop.co.nz) with this introduction: "IMPORTANT NOTE: Publication of this story marks a watershed in American political history. It is offered freely for publication in full or part on any and all Internet forums, blogs and noticeboards. All other media are also encouraged to utilise material. Readers are encouraged to forward this to friends and acquaintances in the United States and elsewhere." Cue thunder, lightning, ominous roll of drums. What warranted this kind of build-up? An apparent exposé of a huge security flaw in the United States voting system, primarily uncovered by a US writer named Bev Harris, author of a soon-to-be published book called Black Box Voting: Ballot-Tampering in the 21st Century and someone with whom Thompson has been working closely in recent months. Continues..........