Why so many links broken?

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I was trying to get more info on Clermont County, Ohio and numerous links to stories are broken.

http://gnn.tv/headlines/947/_Why_were_there_stickers_on_ballots_in_Clermont_County_Ohio

Above link: can't read the rest of article from Raw Story b/c link is broken. Get error message.

Here is the raw story link:

Archived Raw Story link

Nothing sinister...the original posting at GNN took their story from a temporary link from Raw Story -- news portals will do this when stories are new because they haven't 'indexed' the story as it is usually from another news service or an RSS 'ticker' -- when the story is old, the web site will then assign it a permanent link or 'archive' it.

That appears to be the case most times; some of course are simply scrubbed.

If the link is wrong, what you can do is take part of the original headline...I used the words 'stickers on ballots' (no special search chars) because it had 'unique' phrasing and then used google web search and the Raw Story article ended up second, just after your original GNN story.

Hope that helps...here it is...notice GNN's headline is a subheadline on the Raw Story post

Ohio recount volunteers allege electoral tampering, legal violations and possible fraud


'Why were there stickers on ballots in Clermont County, Ohio?'

By Larisa Alexandrovna | RAW STORY Staff

Serious new election tampering allegations have emerged from an Ohio county, where witnesses allege that stickers were placed on presidential election ballots, RAW STORY has learned.
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Several volunteer workers in the Ohio recount in Clermont County, Ohio have prepared affidavits alleging serious tampering, violations of state and federal law and possible fraud. They name the Republican chief of Clermont's Board of Elections Daniel Bare and the head of the Clermont Democratic Party Priscilla O'Donnell as complicit in these acts.

These volunteers, observing the recount on behalf of the Greens, Libertarians and Democrats, assert that during the Dec. 14, 2004 hand recount they noticed stickers covering the Kerry/Edwards oval, whereas the Bush/Cheney oval seemed to be "colored in."

Some witnesses state that beneath the stickers, the Kerry/Edwards oval was selected. The opti-scan ballots were then fed into the machines after the hand recount.

Allegations of ballot tampering in Ohio -- which decided the outcome of the presidential election by some 100,000 votes -- find particular resonance in Clermont, one of three Ohio counties which saw the biggest increases in votes for Bush from 2000 to 2004. The other counties were Butler and Warren; Warren County had a lockdown after an alleged terror threat that the FBI later denied.


again :Archived Raw Story link

several links not work. Maybe the web is acting up today, not just the sites. I know sometime it seems the web is slow.