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but if http://www.periodico26.cu/english_new/opinion/fraud080105.htm">this hasn´t been posted elsewhere I think it might be deserving, for perspective and maybe some news value.

Best foreign press piece I saw as of yet.

Could someone fill me in on the Halliburton/Diebold link. VERY interesting, why didn´t I hear more of this before?

I don´t care if it is minimal if it is useful.

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ALTHOUGH popular groups in Ohio have observed in November’s presidential elections a veritable pattern of fraud that meant the votes were significantly modified in favor of the Republican candidate George W. Bush, in the Miami of the Cuban-American mafia, fraud was being perpetrated in full view, reaching the level of farce. The height of ridicule: the vote on the issue of gambling machines that took place at the same time as the presidential vote.

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An article in The Miami Herald entitled "Gambling vote glitch mars tally," by Erika Bolstad and Curtis Morgan, explained in an astonishingly serious tone how the spectacular calculation "error" occurred on November 5.

"The problem" that in one single second made 78,000 votes appear "came to light just after midnight" (sic) when the counting office for the votes from Broward county was about to close.

Opponents to the amendment told The Herald that "they began" to suspect the snare when they realized that of the 78,000 "new votes" counted¼ 94% were in favor of the measure.

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Among the computer equipment used in the last election was equipment manufactured by Diebold, a subsidiary of Kellog Brown & Roost, another subsidiary of Halliburton, the business of which Vice President Dick Cheny was executive director.