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  • Internet Voters Overhwelm 2004 Presidential Primary Site

    06/24/2003 3:54:56 PM PDT · by ewing · 51 replies · 359+ views
    NY Times and the Associated Press Wire ^ | June 24, 2003 5:17PM EST | staff wire report
    Activists staging a massive 2004 National Democratic Presidential Primary ran into some technical problems as a flood of Internet voters overwhelmed the Move.on.Org Web site and halted the voting process for more than an hour.About 50,000 people were able to cast electronic ballots for Democratic candidates on the advocacy site (which has pledged millions in financial support for the candidate who garners 50% support of the election total) before the system crashed at 11:15 Eastern Daylight Time. 'We had a much greater load than we expected all at once,' said Wes Boyd President of the Political Action Committee that organized...
  • 'Canadians Traveling to Iraq to be Human Shields' Article Gets Angry US Response [Freeped But Good!]

    12/09/2002 1:40:32 PM PST · by ewing · 31 replies · 324+ views
    CBC News ^ | Monday, December 9, 2002 | Staff Writer Being Freeped
    The story-a CBC News Online 'Backgrounder' was titled-Candanians Go to Baghdad as 'Human Shields.'The CBC News Online article was picked up by the Matt Drudge Report in the United States and featured prominently over the weekend.It described the growing anti-war movement against a U.S. invasion of Iraq.The story said two Candaians Jennifer Ziemann and Irene Vandas both from Vancouver-were going to Baghdad to serve as human shields.