“We believe these man-in-the-middle attacks are potentially possible on a wide variety of electronic voting machines,” said Roger Johnston, leader of the assessment team “We think we can do similar things on pretty much every electronic voting machine.”

The Argonne Lab, run by the Department of Energy, has the mission of conducting scientific research to meet national needs. The Diebold Accuvote voting system used in the study was loaned to the lab’s scientists by VelvetRevolution.us, of which the Brad Blog is a co-founder. Velvet Revolution received the machine from a former Diebold contractor

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TAR HEEL, N.C. — The races for mayor and three commission seats are wide open in the small North Carolina town of Tar Heel — because no one bothered to run.

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No one has registered as a candidate for the fall elections in the Bladen County town. The story was first reported by WECT-TV.

The ballots will be printed with blank spaces for voters to write in their choices.

Current Mayor Ricky Martin says he’s not surprised no one wants the jobs. Even in a town of 117, it’s hard work with little compensation. And Martin says state budget cuts mean the next elected officials might have to raise taxes.

Cynthia Shaw, the director of the county’s board of elections, says it’s the first time she has seen an entire town without a candidate.

via No one bothers to run in small NC town’s election – US news – Weird news – msnbc.com.

Rep. Nan Hayworth just can’t help putting her foot in her mouth when it comes to talking about the Indian Point nuclear reactors.

In the video, Hayworth says, “it would be very difficult to evacuate a substantial number of people from this area,” and then she acknowledges that we live in one of the more seismically active parts of the US. And then she acknowledges that a 7.0 earthquake is something we can expected “in this part of the world.”

What Hayworth doesn’t tell the audience in Deer Park is that a 7.0 quake could likely create a substantial radioactive release that would, in turn, trigger a mandatory evacuation order for the 22 million people that within 50 miles of Indian Point. But what’s a little chaos among the little people.

Hayworth has been a staunch supporter of keeping Indian Point open since she was elected to Congress last year.

Sen. Thomas Duane

Democratic legislators in both the State Assembly and Senate are calling for single-payer health care in New York by introducing universal healthcare legislation.

Should this landmark health-care bill succeed, public health care coverage would replace for-profit insurance-based health coverage and health-care premiums, deductibles, and co-pays would be entirely eliminated. Financing of the system would be provided by a graduated income tax. Private-sector health-care services would not change; medical professionals would be paid by the state much in the same way as they're paid by health-insurance companies.

Assemblyman Richard Gottfried (AD-75), chair of the Health Committee and Senator Thomas Duane (SD-29) are the initial sponsors of the legislation, which is co-sponsored by 62 other legislators in both chambers. There is no Republican sponsor in the GOP controlled Senate, however, which makes it more unlikely that the bill would see passage in the upper chamber.

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Sen. Thomas Duane

Democratic legislators in both the State Assembly and Senate are calling for single-payer health care in New York by introducing universal healthcare legislation.

Should this landmark health-care bill succeed, public health care coverage would replace for-profit insurance-based health coverage and health-care premiums, deductibles, and co-pays would be entirely eliminated. Financing of the system would be provided by a graduated income tax. Private-sector health-care services would not change; medical professionals would be paid by the state much in the same way as they're paid by health-insurance companies.

Assemblyman Richard Gottfried (AD-75), chair of the Health Committee and Senator Thomas Duane (SD-29) are the initial sponsors of the legislation, which is co-sponsored by 62 other legislators in both chambers. There is no Republican sponsor in the GOP controlled Senate, however, which makes it more unlikely that the bill would see passage in the upper chamber.

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