"Hotel Minibar" Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines

The access panel door on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine, the door that protects the memory card that stores the votes, and is the main barrier to the injection of a virus, can be opened with a standard key that is widely available on the Internet... or to anyone who forgot to give their key back upon check-out. This is not the first article about the weak security that our democracy is now counting on. Does this have anyone else worried? I sure am!

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Desperate Soundbites - The Daily Show

Bush at his best.

X1 Electric Car

Electric car beats Ferrari and Porsche

Watch this incredible video of an electric car that can do 0 to 60 in only 3 seconds, and has a top speed in excess of 112 miles per hour, as it beats both a Ferrari 360 Modena, and a Porche Carrera GT

The Daily Show: We Are Safe! (9/11/06)

Jon Stewart and Senior White House Correspondent John Oliver examine President Bush's methods of coping with the grief of 9/11 and the lessons he's learned from Hurricane Katrina.
Another classic Daily Show clip, check it out!

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Voting Machines Wreak Havoc in Maryland Elections

"So many of these races are so close. . . . Voters are yelling at us and yelling at the election judges" It would seem that the Diebold machines are going to be giving us problems this November as well. Anyone else looking forward to cheap November gas prices and raised terror alerts just in time for the elections?

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