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[9 Feb 2008 | Comments | ]

Editorial: ‘Double bubble’ trouble L.A. mess shows need for ballot redesign
…The scale of disenfranchisement is huge – 94,500 of 189,000 decline-to-state votes. That’s half of the nonpartisan ballots. By comparison, in the infamous Florida “butterfly ballot” debacle in the 2000 presidential election, 19,120 Palm Beach County ballots went uncounted because of the bad ballot design.
Worse, acting Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters Dean Logan told county supervisors that the county had used the same “double bubble” design in 2004 and 2006. In those elections, only 40 percent of the county’s …

History, Music »

[9 Feb 2008 | Comments | ]

Natural Blues
Moby
featuring Alan Lomax Field Recordings
–More…
–Even more…

oh lordy, trouble so hard
oh lordy, trouble so hard,
don’t nobody know my troubles but God
don’t nobody know my troubles but God
went down the hill, the other day
my soul got happy and stayed all day
oh lordy…