There are election recounts in Minnesota and New York that have the media’s eyes and ears but we should not forget that there is also a recount beginning next week in Maricopa Co Arizona. In this case it is not an elections recount to decide who/what won an election. Instead this is a criminal investigation to determine whether there was manipulation of the vote tally on the voting machines in Pima Co. during the 2006 Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) election. Today’s “Featured” article has the whole story, including all of the background....

• Featured - AZ: Ballots from 'Fixed' Arizona Election Finally to be Counted in Criminal Investigation by State AG
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7040
• MN: GOP senators tell Coleman to make a federal case out of it; expert nonplussed
  http://minnesotaindepend...an-federal-supreme-court
• NM: Voting machine service contracts canceled
  http://www.currentargus.com/ci_12050917
• NM: Who will pay for voting machine maintenance?
  http://newmexicoindepend...ting-machine-maintenance
• IL: Write-in candidates hope voters pick up their pens
  http://www.southtownstar...80,040509writein.article
• OK: Voter ID law stirs partisan passions
  http://www.newson6.com/G...bal/story.asp?S=10130780
• TX: Heflin crafts kinder, gentler Voter ID bill
  http://www.reporternews....r-gentler-voter-id-bill/
• WI: Fon Du Lac County - Voters go to polls on Tuesday [NOTE admonition for voters not to put stickers onto ballots or machines may be damaged]
  http://www.fdlreporter.c...5/FON0101/904050565/1985

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