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From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Fred Bauder
Sent: Thursday, 11 November 2004 9:53 PM
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: [WikiEN-l] election fraud article
It is the duty of anyone who sees this on the main page to remove it.
And
just who is putting it back? This is a clear violation of
[[Wikipedia:What
Wikipedia is not]], not propaganda. But there is something to it. Here
in
the county where I live the county clerk, a Republican, was removed from
supervising the election due to failure to mail out absentee ballots
which
would mostly have gone to Democrats. She was also keeping early ballots
in a
closet accessable to the public rather than in the safe. But what
happened
was more an example of the system working than not working.
Fred
From: Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:16:13 -0500
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Subject: [WikiEN-l] election fraud article
Personal political views disclaimer: I voted for John Kerry, and am of
the mind that the possibility of voter fraud in the just-completed
election cannot be altogether discounted.
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That said, I find the fact that people keep adding
[[en:2004_U.S._Election_controversies_and_irregularities]] to the main
page odd. It's a poorly-written article that mostly cites amateurish
statistical correlations (with lots of graphs) and draws unwarranted
causations from them, and generally reads like it was written by the
tinfoil-hat crowd. Furthermore, this issue isn't really "in the news"
by any stretch of the imagination, and even on left-leaning sites such
as
dailykos.com, it's controversial and not agreed upon. In short,
this
article presents a viewpoint that:
1) Shouldn't be on the front page, based on newsworthiness and
neutrality; and
2) Is controversial *even* by the standards of a left-wing community
that agrees John Kerry would make a much better president than George
W.
Bush.
As such, it would be nice if someone would remove it from the front
page. I've already reverted three times today, so will not do so
again,
but I feel it makes us look like we're both
amateurish and biased.
-Mark
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