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Amazing. Just amazing. Or not.

Florida does not need to create a paper record for touch-screen voting machines in case recounts are needed in tight races, a federal judge ruled Monday, upholding the state's emergency rule that set standards for e-voting recounts.

Touch-screen machines "provide sufficient safeguards" of constitutional rights by warning voters when they have not cast votes in individual races and allowing them to make a final review of their ballots, U.S. District Judge James Cohn ruled.
(via WaPo)

A little more on James Cohn:

Jordi, 36, an anti-choice extremist described by the Miami Herald as a "religious fundamentalist … [with] a tattoo of a flaming red cross," was arrested in November 2003 for allegedly plotting to bomb abortion clinics and commit violence against abortion providers, churches he thought do not oppose abortion strongly enough, and gay people.

In February he pled guilty to one count of attempted firebombing, the crime for which he was sentenced on Thursday, July 8, 2004. Although the prosecutor argued that Jordi's plot qualified as terrorism and thus merited a sentence of at least seven to 10 years, U.S. District Judge James I. Cohn said that the law did not support such a request. According to the Miami Herald, he did, however, tell those in the courtroom, "I have grave concerns regarding the future dangerousness of Mr. Jordi." In addition to the five years in prison, Judge Cohn sentenced Jordi to five months' probation and ordered him to enroll in a mental health program.
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Well, the guy is a "Christian"... So he can't possibly be a terrorist!