Now, I would not go so far as to say ’Hillary stole NH.’ I don’t have any evidence for that at all. But gosh! AT isn’t exactly a foil-lover’s CT rag, now is it? cautiously eyes lambert Perhaps this guy is about to get nothing but egg on his face, it’s still an interesting read.

The New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office has announced that they’ll be doing a statewide recount of the primary’s results, citing the Internet controversy (see below) over the results.  Read more 

Via She with excellent tata holders:

More than a hundred computer chips containing voting machine software were lost or stolen during transit in California this week. Two cardboard shipping tubes containing 174 EPROMs loaded with voting machine software were sent via Federal Express on December 13th from the secretary of state’s office in Sacramento to election officials in San Diego County for use in optical-scan machines made by Diebold Election Systems. But on Monday, the two shipping tubes arrived empty.”

Avedon asks:

I can’t help having a fantasy that brave freedom fighters are trying to prevent the use of these machines by direct action….

It would be nice, and it’s a fantasy I share.

Just because it’s fun:

I’ve been hearing something really interesting from a variety of sources the past few days, including Iranians opposed to the Tehran regime. That the Arabic language and Iranian press have both suggested that Iran might have provided intelligence useful to the locating of Zarqawi. The Iranian foreign ministry has praised his killing, according to wire reports, but denied supplying any such intelligence useful in locating him directly to the US:

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