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Virtual Primary Faces Vote-Rig Concerns
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| Contributor | User 13 |
| Last Edited | User 13 Jun 21, 2003 12:05pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Jun 21, 2003 12:00am |
| Description | More than a million Internet users will be invited to vote in a virtual Democratic primary next week, but this most modern of elections is facing age-old allegations of vote-rigging.
Howard Dean, who has built an extensive network of Internet-savvy supporters, is expected to get the most votes in the MoveOn.org primary. Organizers of the site say any advantage for the former Vermont governor is due to his appeal among their members, and not any misdeeds in their process or because one of their employees worked on his campaign.
The primary begins Tuesday and voting runs for 48 hours. If one candidate gets more than 50 percent, MoveOn.org will endorse the campaign and ask its 1.4 million members to donate. Last year, MoveOn.org members contributed $4.1 million to the congressional candidates highlighted on the site, said Wes Boyd, one of two former Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who started it five years ago.
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