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No2W2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 07:22 PM
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BBV: U.S. Election Assistance Commission a waste of time
Amid a heated debate over the merits of new touch-screen systems, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission said it hoped to develop voluntary guidelines for the electronic systems that will be used by one in three voters in November.

"At the end of the day, we can't tell districts what to do," said commission chairman DeForest Soaries at the first hearing held by the commission.

Then what's the point?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=2&u=/nm/20040505/pl_nm/campaign_voting_dc
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