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 <title>America Needs 435 Real Americans to run for Congress - Not One Incumbent</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots</link>
 <description>&lt;small style=&quot;color: #000;&quot;&gt;Mission:&lt;/small&gt; To Restore the Government of, by and for We The People&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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Inspiring MP3:&lt;/small&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/benfrank101@yahoo.com/1124-1-20060609-eddie_vedder_power-cl.mp3&quot;&gt;Eddie Vedder: People Have the Power&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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 <title>Thank You</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/congress/thank_you</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks to everyone that voted for me, and everyone that continues to take the truth to their friends and neighbors, as we know:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;r&quot;&gt;Denial is unacceptable, Apathy is unconscionable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;d just like all Democrats to think about this....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;c&quot; src=&quot;http://benfrank.net/patriots/files/polls/impeach_poll.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;c&quot;&gt;&lt;strong &gt;Out of 300,000 votes, 86% want impeachment.&lt;br &gt;Congress Crtters in favor of impeachment: 1%.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br &gt;&lt;br &gt;Anyone else see a problem here?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:43:44 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Who Counts the Votes America?</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/alaska/who_counts_the_votes_america</link>
 <description>&lt;blockquote &gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” - Stalin&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Who counts the votes in America? Machines.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In Alaska, and probably most other states, poll workers are not allowed to hand count the votes to verify the machine totalled them up correctly. Let me reiterate- &lt;strong &gt;Humans are not allowed to verify the machine results.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <category domain="http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/ak">Alaska</category>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:31:24 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Alaska&#039;s Fradulent Election</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/alaskas_fradulent_election</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Most people in America believe we live in a Democracy. After 2000 and 2004 I had my doubts about the integrity of our elections... Now, after the Aug 22nd Alaska primary I am positive- our Democracy is a sham.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alaskans were asked to choose between candidates that they had never heard from- because the Division of Elections DID NOT send out the Official Election Pamphlet. The Deadline was July 22nd, a month before the Primary, I sent in my position statement and $300, and was counting on this booklet to get my name and platform into every town in the state.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But that never happened, the Division of Elections never sent out the booklet! Sure I thought they might stall, but to never even send it out...? I went to vote yesterday thinking that perhaps it was just my neighbors and I that had not received the booklet, but it seems that nobody had. I thought surely they&#039;d have a booklet on hand, so voters could at least read the candidate statements before voting- there was no booklet.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <category domain="http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/national/elections">Elections</category>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:42:20 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Ted Stevens Bill Kills Free Speech on the Internet</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/congress/ted_stevens_fullofit</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;When the Senate returns in September they&#039;ll be voting on a bill to end Free Speech on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stevens says his internet plan has a &quot;Consumer Bill of Rights&quot;, that it&#039;s good for average Americans. In fact, the real purpose of the bill is to remove Americans&#039; last avenue of free speech. &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5009250.stm&quot;&gt;from the BBC&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote &gt;&lt;p&gt;[The telecoms] would like to implement a two-tier system, where data from companies or &lt;strong &gt;institutions that can pay are given priority&lt;/strong&gt; over those that cannot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By creating this &quot;pay-to-play&quot; internet, the corporations will be able to charge whatever they want for net access, and it won&#039;t be long before only corporate sites are &quot;in the fast lane&quot;. Just like tv and radio, the internet will be controlled by big $$.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <category domain="http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/congress">Congress</category>
 <pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:48:56 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>The Spying is to Protect Us: Just Another Lie</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/spying/to_protect_us</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Bush continues to claim that the spying is to protect us, yet look at all of these stories where the targets are Grannies, Quakers, peace groups, anti-war protests, Catholic Workers, etc.... Are these groups a threat to &quot;national security&quot;? Are they planning an attack on fellow citizens- or are they a threat to the war machine?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(click read more to see the list of links)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recall that at first the White House has said it is limited to international calls between U.S. residents and individuals overseas suspected of having ties to al-Qaida.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then the AT&amp;amp;T whistleblower exposed that all domestic email and phone calls were being filtered through the NSA&#039;s special rooms located in telcom hubs across the US.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The NSA&#039;s stated goal was &quot;to create a database of every call ever made&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <category domain="http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/national/spying">Spying</category>
 <pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:00:42 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Alaska News Outlets Blacklist Democratic Candidate</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/intro/alaska_news_outlets_blacklist</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;It&#039;s Friday morning, the Dem Primary is Tuesday, and thus far, there has been a literal blackout of my name in Alaska media. I&#039;ve written Letters to the Editor to over 30 Alaska Newspapers- as far as I know none of them have been published. I talked with the Anchorage Daily News person yesterday, she flat out lied to me telling me that my letter was published in that morning&#039;s paper.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I wrote Anchorage TV stations and the Alaska Public Radio Network asking about a candidate debate- nobody was interested. Then on Wednesday night, my neighbor told me that a debate was on the PBS station right then. Huh? They invited all the other candidates except for me! I admit that I forgot to write KAKM, but I did talk with Steve Heimel from APRN, who works in the same building as KAKM- he told me they weren&#039;t going to have a debate- fully knowing that his sister station was hosting the debate. I called KAKM to find out why I wasn&#039;t invited- &quot;John&quot; has refused to answer or return my calls.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why wasn&#039;t I invited to the debate on PBS? Why won&#039;t they publish my Letters, why won&#039;t news reporters mention my name?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I invite you to look thru this site and see for yourself- there are enough buried news stories (evidence), for us Democrats to replace Don Young- regardless of how much money he spends on tv ads.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What&#039;s even more shocking, is that the Official Election Pamphlet still has not arrived.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:27:43 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Bush has Clearly Violated his Oath of Office</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/freedom/bush_violating_oath_of_office</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Bush and every member of Congress took an oath of office to uphold and defend The Constitution... Now compare these headlines.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;blue&quot;&gt;&lt;big &gt;&lt;strong &gt;Wiretapping Program Ruled UnConstitutional&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/18/news/wiretap.php&quot;&gt;International Herald Tribune&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;big &gt;&lt;strong &gt;Bush Vows to Overturn Wiretapping Ruling&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/washington/18cnd-nsa.html?hp&amp;amp;ex=1155960000&amp;amp;en=cc69b39520fe585b&amp;amp;ei=5094&amp;amp;partner=homepage&quot;&gt;New York Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hello Americans - &lt;strong &gt;Bush is openly violating his oath of office!&lt;/strong&gt; He is &lt;strong &gt;&lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;openly defying the Constitution&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; a la Hitler! And Congress, via their inaction, is just as guilty.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The media tells us that the JonBenet Ramsey murder is more important- I&#039;m betting you&#039;re smart enough to see thru that. Wake up and see the corporate media&#039;s diversion tactics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bush claims the spying is to protect us.... hmmmm, when he lied to start the Iraq war, he claimed it was to &#039;protect us&#039;...&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:57:54 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Attacks on Troops have Doubled since January</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/iraq/attacks_on_troops_have_doubled</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/nyt8_17_06.htm&quot;&gt;Insurgent Bombs Directed at G.I.’s Increase in Iraq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote &gt;&lt;p&gt;“The insurgency has gotten worse by almost all measures, with insurgent attacks at historically high levels,” said a senior Defense Department official who agreed to discuss the issue only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak for attribution. “The insurgency has more public support and is demonstrably more capable in numbers of people active and in its ability to direct violence than at any point in time.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After three years it&#039;s worse than ever- exactly how long do we need to keep sending kids and money to &quot;help&quot; people that clearly don&#039;t want us there. And you&#039;ve just got to love this:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote &gt;&lt;p&gt;“Senior administration officials have acknowledged to me that they are considering alternatives other than democracy&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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 <pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:37:24 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Using their own words against them to prove that they are Lying</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/forum/using_their_own_words_against_them</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;One way to encourage people to investigate 9/11 is to prove to them that government officials are lying. One cannot prove the controlled demolitions in a matter of seconds, but the lying is much easier- especially if we use their own words and contradictory statements to prove that they are lying.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Exhibit 1: Condoleeza Rice to the 9/11 Commission about the August 6th Memo Bush received while on vacation in Texas: &quot;I believe the title was &lt;a href=&quot;http://benfrank.net/patriots/files/audio/condi-the_title_was.mp3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong &gt;Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; &lt;img src=&quot;http://benfrank.net/nuke/images/mp3a.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Exhibit 2: Condoleeza Rice describing her reaction: &lt;a href=&quot;http://benfrank.net/patriots/files/audio/condi-terrible_accident.mp3&quot;&gt;&quot;... my first thought was, what a terrible accident.&quot; &lt;img src=&quot;http://benfrank.net/nuke/images/mp3a.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Exhibit 3: Bush: &lt;a href=&quot;http://benfrank.net/patriots/files/audio/bush-terrible_accident.mp3&quot;&gt;&quot;my first thought was, there&#039;s one terrible pilot...&quot; &lt;img src=&quot;http://benfrank.net/nuke/images/mp3a.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The obvious question is: Why did the President and National Security Advisor both think it was a terrible accident when they had recently received a memo titled &quot;Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Either they are incompetent or lying- period. There is no other explanation.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:42:27 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>300 Alaskan Soldiers just back, Ordered to Return to Iraq</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/alaska/300_alaskan_soldiers_return</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;300 Soldiers from the 372 Stryker Brigade ordered back to Iraq.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote &gt;&lt;p&gt;About 300 U.S. soldiers who just weeks ago returned home to Alaska after a year in Iraq are being ordered back to try to help bolster security in Baghdad, the U.S. Army said on Monday...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The order provoked anger and disappointment among some of the soldiers&#039; families in Alaska. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N14437695.htm&quot;&gt;(Reuters)&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Soldiers: Standing up for the Truth is the courageous thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even with the FOX propaganda 24/7, I&#039;ll bet at least 30 out of the 300 troops know that they&#039;re not liberating the Iraqis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;c&quot; src=&quot;http://benfrank.net/patriots/files/images/iraqi_liberty.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:09:27 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>BushCo Wants Retroactive Protection for War Crimes</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/criminals/want_war_crimes_protection</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;By seeking retroactive protection for war crimes, Bush and Co are basically telling the world that they have committed war crimes, and they are above the law.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote &gt;&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20060809-1711-warcrimes.html&quot;&gt;Pete Yost ASSOCIATED PRESS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
August 9, 2006&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WASHINGTON – The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policymakers from possible criminal charges&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Do We the American people really accept a government that knowingly committed war crimes? I don&#039;t, and I&#039;ll bet most Americans wouldn&#039;t either, especially if they knew everything thing else that this Bush Cabal has done.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is time for intelligent Americans to address the &quot;War on Terror&quot; rationally. Is &quot;waterboarding&quot; suspects realling making you safer? The WoT is based on Bush&#039;s absurd claim that, &quot;they hate us for our freedoms.&quot; Does anybody really believe that anymore?&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:40:30 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Don Young earmarked $10 Million for Florida Co, received $41,000 campaign contribution</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/don_young/earmarked_10_million</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong &gt;Alaska Congressman helps Florida developer after fund raiser&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alaskareport.com/alaska10072.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.alaskareport.com/alaska10072.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote &gt;&lt;p&gt;And at first glance it doesn&#039;t make any sense why Alaska congressman Don Young would earmark $10 million for a Florida project that not one single elected official in the state of Florida had asked for, but commissioner Judah says it comes into focus when you learn there was fund raiser for young at this Hyatt outside Ft. Myers that raised more than $41,000 in campaign contributions. And Judah says one of the major organizers of the fundraiser is Dan Aronoff. He&#039;s the developer who stands to profit if the interchange is built.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&quot;You&#039;re going to have to connect the dots. There&#039;s no question in my mind. All of a sudden this $10 million comes out of nowhere. There is a relationship between Mr. Aronoff and the money he has raised for Don Young.&quot;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/congress/wilkes_talks&quot;&gt;Read this article&lt;/a&gt;, it&#039;s not just Young, it&#039;s &quot;the system&quot; in Congress... $64 billion spent on 12,000 earmarks, more than the USA spends on educating our children.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&#039;s your Congress America- putting campaign cash ahead of your children.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:03:19 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Indicted Lobbyist Exposes Corruption in Congress</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/congress/wilkes_talks</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Brent Wilkes, indicted lobbyist connected with the Duke Cunningham bribery scandal, talks about the corrupt system used in Congress. Cunningham is not the only one- it&#039;s the entire system in place. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/washington/06wilkes.html?_r=2&amp;amp;oref=slogin&amp;amp;oref=slogin&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote &gt;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Wilkes had set up separate meetings with the lawmakers hoping to win a government contract, and he planned to punctuate each pitch with a campaign donation. But his hometown congressman, Representative Bill Lowery of San Diego, a Republican, told him that presenting the checks during the sessions was not how things were done, Mr. Wilkes recalled.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Instead, Mr. Wilkes said, Mr. Lowery taught him the right way to do it: &lt;strong &gt;hand over the envelope in the hallway outside the suite, at least a few feet away.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That was the beginning of a career built on what Mr. Wilkes calls &lt;strong &gt;“transactional lobbying&lt;/strong&gt;,” which made him a rich man but also landed him in the middle of a criminal investigation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;c&quot;&gt;&lt;strong &gt;it gets worse...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Corruption Gone Wild at DHS</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/congress/corruption_gone_wild_at_dhs</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;This is your Department of Homeland Security:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;    * The Border Patrol paid $20 million for camera systems that failed to work or were never installed.&lt;br /&gt;
    * A $10-billion border security program meant to track visitors&#039; U.S. entries and departures failed to monitor the departures and was vulnerable to unauthorized access.&lt;br /&gt;
    * The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) spent more than &lt;span class=&quot;blue&quot;&gt;&lt;strong &gt;$68,000 on 2,000 sets of dog booties&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for canine units. The booties couldn’t be used and remain in storage.&lt;br /&gt;
    * Customs and Border Protection ordered 37 &lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;strong &gt;$2,500 rain jackets&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for agents to wear while training at an agency firing range, which, it turned out, is closed when it rains.&lt;br /&gt;
    * The Secret Service purchased 12 iPod Nanos and 42 iPod Shuffles for &quot;training and data storage.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
    * &lt;strong &gt;FEMA can&#039;t account for 12 of 20 boats&lt;/strong&gt; its employees purchased for $208,000 per vessel.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In a measure of how much money has poured out of the department, the report noted that agency spending rocketed from $3.5 billion in 2003, to $10 billion two years later. Over the same period, &lt;strong &gt;the percentage of contracts the agency awarded without full and open competition increased from 19 percent to 55 percent, the report said.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br &gt;&lt;i &gt;$2,500 rain jackets...? Is there such a thing? Who authorized that? Literally, who did authorize that- that&#039;s the question I&#039;d be asking if I were your Representative.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:36:17 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Is the Alaska Election System Trustworthy?</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/campaign/is_the_election_system_trustworthy</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Dear Readers, what I am about to tell you may shock you. You won&#039;t believe it, because &lt;em &gt;surely&lt;/em&gt;, nothing so absurd could happen in America. Unfortunately, it is all too true, it&#039;s in the public record, the state is not denying it, just merely refusing to allow for a public inspection of the records.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The issue in question is the 2004 election, the following is from an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3111&amp;amp;print=1&quot;&gt;email from Rich McClear&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://kudo1080.com&quot;&gt;KUDO 1080&lt;/a&gt;, Anchorage:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote &gt;&lt;p&gt;The State of Alaska website shows 16 of 40 house districts with more than 200% voter turnout, Also, if you add up the vote totals from each district they come to more than 100,000 votes for state wide candidates than the summary reports show.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More than 7 months ago the Democrats asked for an explanation. The state said it could not release the data files because they were proprietary to Diebold.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Diebold gave the state permission to release the files.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The state still refused.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Read on to see the simple solution&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:50:26 -0400</pubDate>
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