Quote of the day: The White House continues to throw billions into fixing Iraq’s power and water infrastructure but ignores the US’s own massive problems. Perhaps the United States should consider invading itself. That’s from a discussion of Prop 13 and what it and its descendants have wrought nationwide.

You may have heard of (and your state may have considered buying) E-voting systems, whereby your vote is made via touchscreen or a similar electronic method. This is called “direct-recording electronic” voting, and the Feds are ponying up $3.9 billion to states to speed up the conversion from punched-card and/or levered systems. The problem is, …

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