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Comment Did anybody read the actual cNet voting record? (Score 1) 603

From the way that the post read it sounded like Biden had a bad voting record on tech issues.

From the article/survey/whatever the 'scores' made it sound like he had a bad score (37.575). But when you look at the actual issues that he voted for or against it seems that the majority of his stances are really good. Really good.

He did vote against the CANSPAM thing. that can be explained in two ways: 1) He is against a federal law trumping a state law because some state laws might be more stringent than he expects CANSPAM to be and/or 2) he is from Delaware and most credit card companies, and other nasties, are incorporated and 'run' out of Delaware (damn).

I looked at George Allen (VA) who received a 78. He voted on only 9 issues. He voted against 2 (both of which Biden voted against), for 7, and there was no data for 7 more, making the total 16,

The cNet thing doesn't look valid on any level. It seems like they count a vote for or against but do not consider the legislation (ie whether it is really pro-tech or not).

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