By-Voting
Those pseudo-pranksters at the Guardian asked and terrified (terrorized?) Brits respond... to Ohio.
World writes to undecided votersThe Guardian's campaign to target undecided voters in a key swing state in the US presidential elections has attracted more than 10,000 responses, as well earning the ire of the conservative media.
By 6pm yesterday, 11,658 people had contacted the newspaper from around the world, after it encouraged readers in Britain to write with their thoughts on the election to voters in Clark county, Ohio. In the 2000 election, George Bush lost the county by 1% - equivalent to 324 votes.
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The campaign has been picked up by the US media. The speaker of the House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, has called for the Capitol Hill press accreditation to be withdrawn from the paper's Washington correspondents.
Linda Rosicka, the director of the board of elections in Clark county, confirmed that the Guardian had obtained the 85,000-name voter file legitimately. 'We sell the information; it's public record,' she told the Newhouse news agency.
Maybe Americans should write back asking what the hell went wrong with Blair. Hm, but what newspaper would have the Guardian's chutzpah?
* Ray, 10/21/2004 03:11:29 PM
