Diebold was doomed as soon as their management started openly playing politics. That is just bad policy for a company that is supposed to deliver the pretense of accurate electoral results.
(the president of Diebold publicly said he'd do everything in his power to get George Bush elected president)

I suspect the world will move towards open source voting systems as the only way to use modern technologies in the voting process and still have a shot at accurate results.

Perhaps no lunar beanstalk is needed, but any kind of non-conventional launch system from the moon to lower earth orbit will be much easier than going from the surface of the earth to lower earth orbit. I expect we'll see a variety of activity in that area once the powers that be start to realize just how high the stakes are here.

It was probably done by staff close to Huckabee. It really needs to be followed up on. If Huckabee is involved,perhaps he needs to be prevented from running for President again.

That said, perhaps wikipedia foundation ought to be preemptive-and classify all articles on their "political" nature. There is no reason not to ban all edits on potentially political articles by state employees in all states. We also have issues with folks like paid lobbyists editing these articles-that one is more tricky.

Wikipedia foundation has limited resources, but I think they really can outrun the plutocracy technically. The plutocrats really aren't that very bright.