Short Takes: News From All Over: April 22, 2004

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Five Things You Can Do to Fight Touch-Screen Vote Fraud
Critics of touch-screen voting machines have mounted a vigorous campaign to prevent electronic vote fraud this November, when at least 28% of American voters will cast their ballots with the controversial contraptions. This recent post from an email listserve on the subject outlines in exhaustive detail some of the ways you can help stop the e-vote makers from rigging the election, as well as a wealth of resources for learning more about the issue. -- Leif Utne
http://tinyurl.com/36hkb

Online Poker Chips Away at Sexual Stereotypes
Beer-guzzling men sitting around a table in a smoke-filled basement may be the image that comes to mind when you think of poker. But Victor Chandler Poker (www.vcpoker.com), the fastest-growing poker website in the UK, proves that it's no longer just a men's game. In fact, one in six new players joining today is female, up from virtually zero two years ago. -- Jacob Wheeler
http://emediawire.com/releases/2004/4/emw119140.htm

How Jim Lehrer Changed History
By Norman Solomon, MediaChannel.org
Don't trust everything you see or here on television -- not even if it comes out of Jim Lehrer's mouth. Media watchdog Norman Solomon takes the anchor of public television's main news program to task for falsely stating that the U.S. military shut down the now embattled Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr's newspaper 'because it was calling for violence and anti-American.' In fact, Solomon quotes The New York Times, 'the paper did not print any calls for attacks.' -- Jacob Wheeler
http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert181.shtml

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