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Via Fark of all places, Diebold vote-counting software allows the user to change the vote count using a secret code. Needless to say, this is HUGE, and this is the only intentional vote-fraud enabling mechanism we know about.

So yeah. Care to take a guess as to what the latest Republican smear on John Kerry is?
He’s had cancer, and it might come back. Under the link are a couple of letters to the editors that detail an interesting smear against Kerry.
From the first letter:
Kerry is seeking the presidency. Is that a […]

First, some commentary:
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Earlier, I’d agreed with Zib that it was a good thing for Sistani
to get Sadr’s men out of Najaf. Now I’m having second thoughts, piqued
by Sadr’s demand that his people leave in a crowd of visitors so they
can’t be tracked. Before, Sadr and a significant number of his people
were concentrated in one area. […]

Via CNN, by proxy from a few other sources:
(AP) — The chilling sights and sounds of war fill newspapers and television screens worldwide, but war itself is in decline, peace researchers report.
In fact, the number killed in battle has fallen to its lowest point in the post-World War II period, dipping below 20,000 a year […]

This might be the ground-shaking story that Josh Marshall was hinting about
a few months ago. Apparently, there were secret, unauthorized backroom
meetings between the Department of Defense, Italian intelligence,
and notorious Iran-Contra figure Manucher Ghorbanifar who is so
untrustworthy the CIA has issued an order forbidding their people
from talking to him. The players include Ghorbanifar and:

DoD Iran […]

This morning, radio talk show host Bernie Ward was debating whether
the Republicans could honestly consider themselves to be the party
God would vote for, at the exclusion of the Democratic Party. This
shouldn’t be too hard to figure out — how well do the parties follow
God’s party platform? Let’s have a look.

1: I am the Lord thy […]

A certain few of us might be interested in Tim Eagan’s Deep Cover this week…

The FBI is alleging that Israel has spies in the US government and that AIPAC is connected to the Israeli government! Am I the only person whose reaction was “No shit”?
As the details come out, this might actually be a big(ger) deal given the allegations of what the spy could have done in his position. […]

Via Kos, Republicans for Choice and the Log Cabin Republicans tried to get some ameliorating language inserted into the Republican Party platform:
We recognize that the Republicans of good faith may not agree with all the planks in the party’s platform. This is particularly the case with regard to those planks dealing with abortion, family planning, […]

Josh Marshall notes CNN’s Daryn Kagan saying talking about “the medals he [Kerry] might have won” in Vietnam, and Miles O’Brien saying that Kerry pulling Rassman out of the water is “a point of dispute, given what has all transpired here with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth”. These are newsanchors reading the prepared […]