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   From: gazter@msn.com   
      
   Koko wrote:   
   > In article <4b7ndhF101bjbU1@individual.net>, gazter@msn.com says...   
   >>   
   >> oO wrote:   
   >>> 20 Amazing Facts About Voting In The United States   
   >>> 1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies:   
   >>> Diebold   
   >>> and ES&S.   
   >>   
   >> 100% of all voting machines used are approved by local state level   
   >> Government.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> 2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of   
   >>> the   
   >>> US voting machine industry.   
   >>   
   >> Because voting is a matter for the State, not the Federal Government.   
   >   
   > That's funny. LOL. I seem to recall a US Supreme Court decision that   
   > seriously   
   > over-rode state laws and courts. Florida, I think...   
      
   That was only when the lower courts where not able to make the decision.   
      
   It is for the States to decide the means by which they decide how their   
   electors vote within the electoral college.   
      
   It has become convention within all the States that it is done by first past   
   the post election, and the winner of that election gets all the votes of the   
   elecotoral college (i believe one or two exceptions exist to this).   
   Elections are State organised, from top to bottom, and considering the   
   states with big cities on the east and west coast are largely Democrat   
   strongholds, and have been for sometime, if the machines where corrupt,   
   would they use them????????????   
      
   Gaz   
      
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