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Voting Machine Company Sequoia to Publish Source Code

logoNew In what appears to be an industry first, Sequoia Voting Systems announced Tuesday plans to publish the source code of their latest voting machine.

The company said it will publically release the code for their new Frontier Election System in November.

“I think Sequoia is recognizing that it won’t do anymore to just urge people to trust them,” said Princeton University computer scientist Ed Felten, “and that people want to know that the code that controls these machines is open and that experts have had a

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Did Glenn Beck Rape and Murder a Young Girl in 1990?

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No. At least, we have no evidence to support that. However, Glenn Beck IS trying to kill the parody website DidGlennBeckRapeAndMurderAYoungGirlIn1990.com.

The domain was registered by Isaac Eiland-Hall of Panama, Fla. on Sept. 1 of this year. The site offers dubious “evidence” that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990.

A mere three days later, on Sept. 4, Beck filed a complaint with the Word Intellectual Property Organization (PDF), requesting that the domain name be taken from Eiland-Hall.

Eiland-Hall’s

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