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Yahoo was almost ready to put its recent problems behind it; the company had fought off Microsoft, brought Carl Icahn onboard, and survived the annual meeting with its board intact.  Only now it turns out that the shareholder vote didn't go nearly so well as was first reported.

The former Prime Minister of Poland Jaroslaw Kaczynski says that Polish citizens should not be given the option of voting online."I am not an enthusiast of a young person sitting in front of a computer, watching video clips and pornography while sipping a bottle of beer and voting when he feels like it," Kaczynski said in an interview posted on the Web site of his conservative Law and Justice Party.

The big three voting machine folks need to start spinning some PR here, ever since 2000, with the election of George Bush by a decision of the Supreme Court; electronic voting machines have come under increasing scrutiny.

The Federal Communications Commission will lay down the ground rules for the 700MHz auction coming in 2008, as Google and a host of telcos watch.

As we all head out to vote on our favorite candidates and issues on this Election Day '06, a bigger question looms in the minds of many as we recall the well-documented disorder of elections' past: Will my vote really even count?

Electronic voting machines built by Diebold have been at the center of controversy over security issues discovered by researchers; Diebold has attempted to refute these claims only to see those responses refuted in turn.