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When tid it get as pathetic as it is now? They haven't always just stuck a mike in a politician's face and called it an investigation. Wait, I guess now it's normally stuck in a politician's "spokeman's" face, sorry. But they used to actually try to dig up dirt on people! Now, they won't even take evidence if you were to hand it to them! They really only do "scandals" that are politically backed. I know it didn't use to be like this, anybody remember when/why it stopped. Article (excerpts) below would never happen today, obviously.
The New York Times September 24, 1991, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final Primary Tallies Show Voters Don't Match Votes By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Hundreds of voters who entered the polls in the New York City Council primaries never recorded their votes, either because they could not operate the voting machines or because they decided not to vote for anyone, Board of Elections officials said yesterday.
The missing votes came to light yesterday as election officials broke the seals on hundreds of voting machines used in the primaries on Sept. 12 and began an official canvass of the results that will take two days to complete. --SNIP-- In a spot check of more than a dozen machines yesterday from polling sites in upper Manhattan, a New York Times reporter found disparities in all of them. In one election district in District 8, for instance, 105 people entered the booth but only 43 votes were cast. Only the Council race was on the ballot there.
State Senator Martin Connor of Brooklyn, an election law expert, said yesterday that such disparities were not evidence of fraud, but rather occurred because voters discovered that the candidates they supported were not on the ballot in their district.
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