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	<title><![CDATA[Election Systems Upgrade: Money's Gone To Iraq]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-freedman/election-systems-upgrade_b_98357.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>This article is not about the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkqEdlRDKfo">absurd complexity of our current election system</a>, although that topic is just as worthy of consideration. It is about exploring the possibility that we severely underfund the election process in the United States, leading to myriad <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-soboroff/pa-officials-no-trouble-w_b_97273.html">potential</a> and <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/22/105716/688/664/500727">actual problems</a>, while spending dearly overseas to bring democracy to other nations.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/05/dick-cheney-predicts-iraq_n_75512.html">Bringing democracy to Iraq</a> will end up costing America <i>trillions</i> of dollars, <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/10/news/economy/costofwar.fortune/index.htm">according to some estimates</a>. In the wake of...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Off The Bus]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-05-01T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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