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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/1/31342/82030
Title: What is the Associated Press hiding?

What is the Associated Press hiding? Why has this venerable organization (recently acquired by the conglomorate that also owns the Dallas Morning News, whose owner is Chairman of the Board) refused to provide Representative John Conyers and his staff the information about the election they have requested?

Is it because they do not want it know how many other states, besides Illinois allowed them to take a direct feed from their central vote tabulating computers?

Is it because they do not want to reveal which public officials were paid for providing this "special access" to the public's records? Or maybe that they actually got it for free?

Is it because they now realize that their arrangements with these states, probably the ones where the election returns were expected to be really close, provided a back door through which the vote was "hacked?"

Is it because there is now the risk that their vaunted "election news packages" will go down in flames when it becomes known that the results were bogus?