<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - Killfile: democracy</title><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/democracy</link><description>Newsvine - Killfile: democracy</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:36:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 22:08:26 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Democracy At Work: They're Shouting &quot;Ahmadinejad Bye Bye!&quot; In Tehran.  </title>
<description><![CDATA[Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused his election rivals of using Hitler-style smear tactics against him.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/11/2918577-democracy-at-work-theyre-shouting-ahmadinejad-bye-bye-in-tehran</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/11/2918577-democracy-at-work-theyre-shouting-ahmadinejad-bye-bye-in-tehran</guid><category>iran</category><category>politics</category><category>ahmadinejad</category><category>democracy</category><category>mahmoud-ahmadinejad</category><category>holocaust-denier</category><category>iranians</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:36:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Harvard Deploys First Practical, Web-Based, Secure, Verifiable Voting System</title>
<description><![CDATA[Computer scientists affiliated with the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS), based at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with scientists at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium, deployed the first pr&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/05/2509474-harvard-deploys-first-practical-web-based-secure-verifiable-voting-system</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/05/2509474-harvard-deploys-first-practical-web-based-secure-verifiable-voting-system</guid><category>election</category><category>politics</category><category>voting</category><category>democracy</category><category>computers</category><category>harvard</category><category>computer-science</category><category>dre</category><category>crcs</category><pubDate>Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:35:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Only 18% of Russians Want A Western-Style Democracy.  The Rest Want Something More Soviet or Tsarist Flavored</title>
<description><![CDATA[Growing Western concerns about a resurgent Russia have some experts asking how the West lost Russia as an unquestionably pro-Western partner.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/15/2436692-only-18-of-russians-want-a-western-style-democracy-the-rest-want-something-more-soviet-or-tsarist-flavored</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/15/2436692-only-18-of-russians-want-a-western-style-democracy-the-rest-want-something-more-soviet-or-tsarist-flavored</guid><category>russia</category><category>market</category><category>democracy</category><category>government</category><category>soviet-union</category><category>russian-empire</category><category>world-news</category><category>republican</category><category>communist</category><category>gallup</category><category>communism</category><category>soviet</category><category>tsarist-russia</category><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:30:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Political Cartoon: Security in Electronic Voting Machines... As Only XKCD Can Explain It</title>
<description><![CDATA[XKCD is among my favorite web comics, generally restricting itself to jokes that use technical, romantic, or just a nerdy thematic.  

Every so often, however, politics rears its ugly head.  ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/15/1750580-political-cartoon-security-in-electronic-voting-machines-as-only-xkcd-can-explain-it</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/15/1750580-political-cartoon-security-in-electronic-voting-machines-as-only-xkcd-can-explain-it</guid><category>elections</category><category>politics</category><category>voting</category><category>democracy</category><category>diebold</category><category>voting-machines</category><category>dre</category><category>xkcd</category><category>virus-software</category><category>premier-election-solutions</category><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:20:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>O'Reilly: &quot;Netroots&quot; Activists Are A Hate Group, Worse Than Nazis, KKK </title>
<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, former Vice President Al Gore made a surprise appearance at the Netroots Nation convention in Austin, TX. In his speech, Gore praised the gathering of progressives, saying that they are part of an effort to "reclaim the integrity of American democracy."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/22/1685977-oreilly-netroots-activists-are-a-hate-group-worse-than-nazis-kkk</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/22/1685977-oreilly-netroots-activists-are-a-hate-group-worse-than-nazis-kkk</guid><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>democracy</category><category>fox</category><category>fox-news</category><category>republican</category><category>oreilly</category><category>austin</category><category>bill-oreilly</category><category>al-gore</category><category>bill-o</category><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:29:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama's Clearest Path to the Presidency: Talk About How Broke We All Are</title>
<description><![CDATA[In our us-versus-them culture, every political campaign is a battle to define who exactly the "us" and "them" are. Republicans typically say it is natives versus immigrants, Christians versus non-Christians and heartland folks versus Hollywood elites.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/25/1608363-obamas-clearest-path-to-the-presidency-talk-about-how-broke-we-all-are</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/25/1608363-obamas-clearest-path-to-the-presidency-talk-about-how-broke-we-all-are</guid><category>election</category><category>democrats</category><category>politics</category><category>democracy</category><category>obama</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>election-2008</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:52:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>These wars [Iraq, Afghanistan] are about oil, not democracy</title>
<description><![CDATA[The ugly truth behind the Iraq and Afghanistan wars finally has emerged.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/22/1600631-these-wars-iraq-afghanistan-are-about-oil-not-democracy</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/22/1600631-these-wars-iraq-afghanistan-are-about-oil-not-democracy</guid><category>iraq</category><category>oil</category><category>afghanistan</category><category>politics</category><category>war</category><category>exxon</category><category>democracy</category><category>shell</category><category>total</category><category>bt</category><category>no-bid-contracts</category><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:28:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>110 US Troops Died Last Year In Afghanistan To Protect This: &quot;Afghan journalism student given death sentence&quot; for distributing a paper that &quot;humiliated Islam&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/23/1248526-110-us-troops-died-last-year-in-afghanistan-to-protect-this-afghan-journalism-student-given-death-sentence-for-distributing-a-paper-that-humiliated-islam</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/23/1248526-110-us-troops-died-last-year-in-afghanistan-to-protect-this-afghan-journalism-student-given-death-sentence-for-distributing-a-paper-that-humiliated-islam</guid><category>afghanistan</category><category>democracy</category><category>democratic</category><category>islam</category><category>freedom</category><category>world-news</category><category>judges</category><category>balkh</category><category>sayad-parwez-kambaksh</category><category>fazel-wahab</category><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:58:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Somehow, Thailand Manages To Stand Up A Democracy Without A US Invasion</title>
<description><![CDATA[Thailand's parliament reopened Monday, marking the end of 16 months of military rule and the return of democracy.
art.samak.ap.jpg

Samak Sundaravej, leader of the People Power Party, which won the December election, arrives at Thailand's parliament Monday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/23/1248502-somehow-thailand-manages-to-stand-up-a-democracy-without-a-us-invasion</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/23/1248502-somehow-thailand-manages-to-stand-up-a-democracy-without-a-us-invasion</guid><category>thailand</category><category>democracy</category><category>world-news</category><category>people-power-party</category><category>samak-sundaravej</category><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:49:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Nearly 8 Years And $65,000,000 Later, Maryland Abandons Diebold Voting Systems over Security Concerns</title>
<description><![CDATA[Outraged by the butterfly ballots and hanging chads of the disputed 2000 presidential election, political activists nationwide pushed for user-friendly voting systems that wouldn't lead to a repeat of the confusion that left the outcome in Florida - and the nation - in doubt.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/22/1245702-nearly-8-years-and-65000000-later-maryland-abandons-diebold-voting-systems-over-security-concerns</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/22/1245702-nearly-8-years-and-65000000-later-maryland-abandons-diebold-voting-systems-over-security-concerns</guid><category>florida</category><category>politics</category><category>maryland</category><category>democracy</category><category>ballot</category><category>diebold</category><category>chads</category><category>dre</category><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:37:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>MoveOn Petitioning Congress For Emergancy Paper Ballots -- Democracy Too Important To Trust To Diebold</title>
<description><![CDATA[Congress is poised to consider a new emergency paper ballots bill next week—but we'll have to convince them to act right away.

A compiled petition with your individual comment will be presented to local election officials and your members of Congress.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/09/1214430-moveon-petitioning-congress-for-emergancy-paper-ballots-democracy-too-important-to-trust-to-diebold</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/09/1214430-moveon-petitioning-congress-for-emergancy-paper-ballots-democracy-too-important-to-trust-to-diebold</guid><category>congress</category><category>election</category><category>politics</category><category>democracy</category><category>new-hampshire</category><category>bill</category><category>primary</category><category>petition</category><category>election-fraud</category><category>diebold</category><category>election-2008</category><category>moveon</category><pubDate>Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:54:20 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Votescam: Republicans Try to Jigger California Electoral College Votes</title>
<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, one of the most important Republican lawyers in Sacramento quietly filed a ballot initiative that would end the practice of granting all fifty-five of California's electoral votes to the statewide winner.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Partisan Hack]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Partisan Hack]]></source><link>http://partisanhack.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/01/870423-votescam-republicans-try-to-jigger-california-electoral-college-votes</link><guid>http://partisanhack.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/01/870423-votescam-republicans-try-to-jigger-california-electoral-college-votes</guid><category>bush</category><category>politics</category><category>president</category><category>democracy</category><category>dick-cheney</category><category>2008-election</category><category>electoral-college</category><category>ballot-initiative</category><pubDate>Wed, 1 Aug 2007 04:08:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>No questions for Bush after speech on press freedom.</title>
<description><![CDATA["On a day when he trumpeted democracy, President Bush noted the vital nature of a free press. Then he got a laugh when the press got stiffed," ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/06/759017-no-questions-for-bush-after-speech-on-press-freedom</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/06/759017-no-questions-for-bush-after-speech-on-press-freedom</guid><category>media</category><category>bush</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>democracy</category><category>freedom</category><category>republican</category><category>press</category><pubDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:16:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Daily Kos: The story that should bring down the republican party</title>
<description><![CDATA[We do know one thing.  A very strong pattern has emerged and continues to emerge.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2007/05/23/734813-daily-kos-the-story-that-should-bring-down-the-republican-party</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2007/05/23/734813-daily-kos-the-story-that-should-bring-down-the-republican-party</guid><category>congress</category><category>white-house</category><category>election</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>vote</category><category>voting</category><category>democracy</category><category>voting-rights</category><category>justice-department</category><category>federal-election-commission</category><category>republican</category><category>kos</category><category>voter-fraud</category><category>daily-kos</category><category>attorney-gate</category><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 11:26:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Straight Dope: Is it true there has never been a war between two democracies?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Common sense alone suggests that embarking upon a military adventure is simpler for a king or dictator than it is for a head of government answerable to a parliament. But proponents of this idea argue that a war between democracies has never occurred.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/19/622087-the-straight-dope-is-it-true-there-has-never-been-a-war-between-two-democracies</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/19/622087-the-straight-dope-is-it-true-there-has-never-been-a-war-between-two-democracies</guid><category>peace</category><category>politics</category><category>war</category><category>nazi</category><category>democracy</category><category>world-war-ii</category><category>nazi-germany</category><category>democracies</category><category>ww2</category><category>war-of-1812</category><category>war-hawks</category><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:54:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Making Martial Law Easier: Bush Requested Provision In Defense Budget Weakens Protections Against Martial Law</title>
<description><![CDATA[A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2007/02/20/577451-making-martial-law-easier-bush-requested-provision-in-defense-budget-weakens-protections-against-martial-law</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2007/02/20/577451-making-martial-law-easier-bush-requested-provision-in-defense-budget-weakens-protections-against-martial-law</guid><category>bush</category><category>bond</category><category>democracy</category><category>bush-administration</category><category>us-news</category><category>republican</category><category>martial-law</category><category>local-law-enforcement</category><category>leahey</category><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:09:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Florida Ditches Touch-Screen Voting - Paper Ballots only By 2008!</title>
<description><![CDATA[Gov. Charlie Crist announced plans Thursday to abandon the touch-screen voting machines that many of Florida's largest counties installed after the disputed 2000 presidential election.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2007/02/03/550532-florida-ditches-touch-screen-voting-paper-ballots-only-by-2008</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2007/02/03/550532-florida-ditches-touch-screen-voting-paper-ballots-only-by-2008</guid><category>florida</category><category>politics</category><category>democracy</category><category>ballots</category><category>diebold</category><category>touch-screen</category><category>dre</category><category>charlie-crist</category><category>paper-ballots</category><pubDate>Sat, 3 Feb 2007 04:59:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Electronic Voting Still Broken: Wrong Winner Chosen Twice By Same Voting Machine</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Election Contest filed by Democrat Christine Jennings and her attorney Kendall Coffey creates complications that could blow the electronic voting world to pieces.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/17/524649-electronic-voting-still-broken-wrong-winner-chosen-twice-by-same-voting-machine</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/17/524649-electronic-voting-still-broken-wrong-winner-chosen-twice-by-same-voting-machine</guid><category>congress</category><category>florida</category><category>democrats</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>republicans</category><category>voting</category><category>democracy</category><category>north-carolina</category><category>electronic-voting</category><category>diebold</category><category>dre</category><category>sarasota-country</category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:29:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Christian Right: The Rise of the American Fascists</title>
<description><![CDATA[Let's start with the title of your book, "American Fascists." A lot of liberals who write about the right see echoes of fascism in its rhetoric and organizing, but we tiptoe around it, because we don't want people to think that we're comparing James Dobson to Hitler or America to&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/08/511509-the-christian-right-the-rise-of-the-american-fascists</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/08/511509-the-christian-right-the-rise-of-the-american-fascists</guid><category>bush</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>democracy</category><category>democratic</category><category>united-states</category><category>james-dobson</category><category>nazi-germany</category><category>republican</category><category>christian</category><category>umberto-eco</category><category>mussolini</category><category>rod-parsley</category><category>fundamentalist-christian</category><category>christofascist</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Jan 2007 21:09:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Leave Your Faith Out Of It -- Why Democray Must Always Trump Religion</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week's question could not be more important. Events around the world in recent years amply demonstrate that the religious freedom we enjoy in the United States is one of the essential building blocks of our democracy.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/14/482099-leave-your-faith-out-of-it-why-democray-must-always-trump-religion</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/14/482099-leave-your-faith-out-of-it-why-democray-must-always-trump-religion</guid><category>constitution</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>democracy</category><category>faith</category><category>freedom</category><category>republican</category><category>christian</category><category>democrat</category><category>conservitive</category><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:43:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Like Cornered Rats, GOP Losers More Dangerous Than Ever</title>
<description><![CDATA[A year of crisis commences.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2006/11/09/434485-like-cornered-rats-gop-losers-more-dangerous-than-ever</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2006/11/09/434485-like-cornered-rats-gop-losers-more-dangerous-than-ever</guid><category>bush</category><category>rumsfeld</category><category>election</category><category>dictator</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>republicans</category><category>democracy</category><category>kathleen-blanco</category><category>republican</category><category>tyranny</category><category>election-2006</category><category>patrick-leahy</category><category>national-governors-association</category><category>concentration-camps</category><category>warner-defense-authorization-act</category><category>warner-act</category><pubDate>Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:37:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Block the Vote: The 10 Worst Places to Cast a Ballot</title>
<description><![CDATA[In some places voters still fill in paper ballots or pull the levers of vintage machines; elsewhere, they touch screens or tap keys, with or without paper trails. Some states encourage voter registration; others go out of their way to limit it.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Killfile]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Killfile]]></source><link>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2006/09/13/361058-block-the-vote-the-10-worst-places-to-cast-a-ballot</link><guid>http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2006/09/13/361058-block-the-vote-the-10-worst-places-to-cast-a-ballot</guid><category>elections</category><category>poll</category><category>florida</category><category>gop</category><category>vote</category><category>voting</category><category>democracy</category><category>voters</category><category>us-news</category><category>democrat</category><category>diebold</category><category>election-2006</category><category>election-2008</category><pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:28:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>