Nov
06
2012
An electronic voting machine in Pennsylvania was confirmed to be changing votes for President Obama into votes for Mitt Romney on Nov. 6, 2012 and was briefly taken offline, according to Mathew Keeler, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of State.
The video was posted on YouTube and shows a voter pressing the Obama button only to have the check box next to the Romney button selected.
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Nov
06
2012
Election Day is finally here and Colorado is not only a key swing state in the battle for the presidency, by the end of Tuesday, voters could legalize marijuana for recreational use, effectively ending marijuana prohibition in the state and forever altering a decades long drug war.
Over the last several months, we’ve debated the issue of marijuana legalization here at HuffPost Denver, seen data from the Marijuana Arrest Research Project that showed that in Colorado …
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Nov
06
2012
People all over the country are having trouble exercising their right to vote, the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights said Tuesday morning.
“We are seeing a manifestation of a new Jim Crow in America…I don’t think that’s an overstatement,” said Wade Henderson, who runs the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (a different group from the Lawyer’s Committee). “You are seeing lines longer than those in Baghdad or Kabul.”
To combat poll problems, the Lawyer’s Committee has teamed …
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Nov
06
2012
(CNN) — In another sign of cracks in the Syrian government’s armor, seven army generals defected to Turkey on Tuesday, Turkish media reported.
The generals were allowed to enter Turkey through the southern Hatay province under tight security measures, the Anadolu Agency said.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has lost a stream of high-level government and military officials in recent months as his forces continue battling rebels seeking an end to four decades of al-Assad family rule.
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Nov
06
2012
Vineyards in South Africa’s biggest table grape-growing region were torched for a second day by protesters wanting more pay, the Western Cape province’s agricultural trade association said.
Fifty hectares (123 acres) planted with grapes were incinerated yesterday near De Doorns, about 140 kilometers (87 miles) northeast of Cape Town, Agri Wes-Cape spokeswoman Porchia Adams said by mobile phone from Cape Town today. Farmers are still assessing how much land was burned today, she said. De Doorns, …
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Nov
06
2012
(Reuters) – Kuwait’s government has made clear it is willing and able to suppress unauthorized street protests, saying it must protect public safety, but it risks provoking worse popular unrest by taking a hard line.
Police fired tear gas and smoke bombs to disperse thousands of Kuwaitis protesting over new voting rules late on Sunday. Last month a prominent opposition figure was arrested after speaking at a protest rally where he appealed to the emir, Sheikh …
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Nov
05
2012
Protesters in Canada may get into trouble for wearing the Guy Fawkes masks they’re known for if a protest escalates to a riot. That’s because Canada’s House of Commons last week approved a bill that bans people from hiding their faces during riots.
The bill was championed by a lawmaker who said it was a response to last year’s Stanley Cup riots in Vancouver, during which often-masked vandals smashed and lit fire to the city after …
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Nov
05
2012
SACRAMENTO — A group tied to David and Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers who have played a huge role in spreading anonymous political cash around the country, was behind the shadowy Arizona group’s $11 million donation to a California business group.
Ending a highly charged legal drama, the state Fair Political Practices Commission today released the names of the donors behind the campaign contribution that has rocked California’s political world the past few weeks.
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Nov
04
2012
On Friday, a federal jury found notorious defense contractor KBR (Kellogg Brown and Root) negligent of exposing soldiers to the carcinogen hexavalent chromium at the Qarmat Ali water facility in Iraq in 2003.
The lawsuit brought by a dozen Oregon Army National Guard soldiers against the former Halliburton corporation charged that the company acted with “conscious indifference to the health, safety and welfare” of the soldiers.
The Oregonian explains:
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Nov
04
2012
WASHINGTON — Once again, Florida and its problems at the polls are at the center of an election.
Early voting is supposed to make it easier for people to carry out their constitutional right. Tuesdays are notoriously inconvenient to take off work, so many states have given voters the option of turning out on weekends or other weekdays in the run-up to Election Day.
But in Florida this year, it has been a nightmare for voters, who …
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