Greg Palast | Vote Machines Audit Function Disabled - and Worse
Greg Palast, GregPalast.com
Palast writes: "For two decades, computer touch-screen voting machines have been derided as 'push and pray' voting. You had to take it on faith that the machine records your vote as you intend. The machines lacked a 'paper record' to audit and recount."
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Greg Palast, GregPalast.com
Palast writes: "For two decades, computer touch-screen voting machines have been derided as 'push and pray' voting. You had to take it on faith that the machine records your vote as you intend. The machines lacked a 'paper record' to audit and recount."
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Texas Republicans Target Elderly Latino Voters With Fraud Accusations
Spencer Woodman, The Intercept
Woodman writes: "Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas boasted on Twitter last month that his attorney general had launched the state's largest ever voter fraud investigation - targeting allegations of illegal electioneering in Fort Worth's Tarrant County. 'Texans will crack down on cheating at the ballot box,' Abbott wrote. 'We will crush illegal voting.'"
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Spencer Woodman, The Intercept
Woodman writes: "Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas boasted on Twitter last month that his attorney general had launched the state's largest ever voter fraud investigation - targeting allegations of illegal electioneering in Fort Worth's Tarrant County. 'Texans will crack down on cheating at the ballot box,' Abbott wrote. 'We will crush illegal voting.'"
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Miami Sues Big Banks to Recoup Losses During Mortgage Crisis
Robert Barnes, Los Angeles Times
Barnes writes: "The housing collapse of 2008 nearly broke the city of Miami. Now, its leaders have embarked on a novel and aggressive legal strategy to recoup losses from the big banks they say created the crisis with discriminatory and predatory lending practices."
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Robert Barnes, Los Angeles Times
Barnes writes: "The housing collapse of 2008 nearly broke the city of Miami. Now, its leaders have embarked on a novel and aggressive legal strategy to recoup losses from the big banks they say created the crisis with discriminatory and predatory lending practices."
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American Muslims Report Being Questioned by FBI Ahead of Election Day
Maya Rhodan, TIME
Rhodan writes: "American Muslims were questioned by federal authorities in several states ahead of Election Day, a civil rights organization reports, as authorities reportedly received warnings of a potential terrorist attack."
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Maya Rhodan, TIME
Rhodan writes: "American Muslims were questioned by federal authorities in several states ahead of Election Day, a civil rights organization reports, as authorities reportedly received warnings of a potential terrorist attack."
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Panel Upholds 'Soft-Money' Ban but Sends GOP Campaign Finance Challenge to Supreme Court
Spencer S. Hsu, The Washington Post
Hsu writes: "A three-judge federal panel Monday dismissed a renewed Republican challenge to the 'soft-money' ban on unlimited donations to political parties from wealthy individuals, corporations and advocacy groups like unions in a decision that returns the fight over a landmark campaign finance law to the U.S. Supreme Court."
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Spencer S. Hsu, The Washington Post
Hsu writes: "A three-judge federal panel Monday dismissed a renewed Republican challenge to the 'soft-money' ban on unlimited donations to political parties from wealthy individuals, corporations and advocacy groups like unions in a decision that returns the fight over a landmark campaign finance law to the U.S. Supreme Court."
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New Challenges Surface for VW, Including a Possible New Defeat Device in Audis
Megan Geuss, Ars Technica
Geuss writes: "Yesterday, the German magazine Bild Am Sontag reported that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) had discovered that unspecified Audi vehicle models were running illegal software to bring carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions within legal limits under laboratory conditions."
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Megan Geuss, Ars Technica
Geuss writes: "Yesterday, the German magazine Bild Am Sontag reported that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) had discovered that unspecified Audi vehicle models were running illegal software to bring carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions within legal limits under laboratory conditions."
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Indigenous People Fight for Place at World Climate Action Table
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Indigenous peoples and their traditional land management practices are key in the global fight against climate change, and convincing global leaders rise to challenge of ensuring financing for these vulnerable communities will be a critical piece of the puzzle if the planet hopes to stay below catastrophic levels of global warming."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Indigenous peoples and their traditional land management practices are key in the global fight against climate change, and convincing global leaders rise to challenge of ensuring financing for these vulnerable communities will be a critical piece of the puzzle if the planet hopes to stay below catastrophic levels of global warming."
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