Should Saddam Hussein instead survive the present crisis with his despotic political control and his arsenal intact, we should expect yet another, perhaps even more sinister, by-product.

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"The age of Internet voter fraud is here sooner and in more sinister form than even I imagined, " said Deborah Phillips, president of the Voting Integrity Project, an activist group that specializes in Internet and democracy issues.

CNN: Vote-selling Web site to be revived, possibly offshore