Delay guilty of fundraising shakedown? Bartcop Click Here Excerpt; Fundraisers for a political committee founded by Tom DeLay routinely solicited do
April 12, 2005

Delay guilty of fundraising shakedown? Bartcop

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Fundraisers for a political committee founded by Tom DeLay routinely solicited donations by identifying legislative actions that prospective givers wanted, from video gambling to lawsuit limits, memos show.

"What companies that you know of would be interested in tort reform in Texas with asbestos problems that might support TRMPAC?" one DeLay fundraiser wrote in a memo prospecting for donors to Delay's , Texans for a Republican Majority  (TRMPAC).

   
, but maybe it looks a lot different when you're on the BFEE payroll and it's your job to help crooked Republicans and attack Democrats.

Voting Rights:    Move Left

Counties Buy Expensive Electronic Machines, and Then Create Long Lines by Combining Precincts to Make Up the Cost

 
Electronic voting machines are bad in the first place.

Most don't print a voter-verifiable paper ballot, and therefore these machines allow elections to easily be rigged.

Some electonic machines do print a voter-verifiable paper ballot, but even then most voters don’t check the printout anyway, and so there is still room for rigging.

Optical-scan (fill-in-the-oval) ballots and plain paper ballots are superior for this reason: voters inherently check an optical-scan ballot or a paper ballot.

Electronic voting machines are also bad because they're the most expensive of these options.

political action committee, Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC).

, but maybe it looks a lot different when you're on the BFEE payroll and it's your job to help crooked Republicans and attack Democrats.

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