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We asked you a few weeks back who you felt were the women who are changing the world. Here are the names that really wOwed! Now we need your help voting for the top five. Want to know more about the women before voting? Click here.

By Joni Evans on 10/23/2008 12:00 am

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I read Hirsi Ali’s book, Infidel, I think it is an amazing story and that more people should be discussing the issues that she raises in the book. I think we take our rights for granted. Her story is amazing.

By melissa lemke on 02/07/2009 12:41 pm

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Still think it’s Arundhati Roy or Dr. Helen Caldicott.

By Mugsy Peabody on 10/24/2008 5:52 pm

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Mugsy Haven’t seen you around and was hoping that your breathing was better. Hope the air has cleared up for you.

By Frannie Em on 10/25/2008 12:21 am

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Still struggling somewhat, Frannie. Seems like every time I turn around, another fire nearby. But like so many others, I’m on the “retirement funds” watch; trying to figure out whether they’ll actually be able to rig the voting machines and steal this election, you know. Worry-some stuff. None of it good for the asthma!

By Mugsy Peabody on 10/25/2008 2:50 am

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Good to hear from you, Mugsy, keep up the work on those voting machines–––we need all the watch dogs we can get. Here in Ct. we actually pencil in the little dot and then feed it through while helpers are standing by. Breathe well, my friend–––I send over some of my hot (although mighty fresh) air!

By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 10/25/2008 11:15 am

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I’m voting early/absentee/paper in Californiia, but I can say Alameda County is certainly not the problem. I think we have one poll-watcher for every voter!

By Mugsy Peabody on 10/25/2008 2:34 pm

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Mugsy Do you have much problem with disenfranchised voters up there? People who show up to their polling place and can’t vote. That was one of the biggest problems in Florida in 2000. We haven’t had that down here in So Cal. Our district in LA county does the ink dot voting on paper so there is a paper trail. I am glad about that. I think my biggest concern is disenfranchised voters. I also believe that it is such a big issue these days that everyone is watching, they are being extra careful. People know that if the machine is not working to ask a poller. Hopefully it will start to clear up voter fraud. It has been going on since we started to vote. California’s electoral votes usually go to the democrats. It is almost considered a done deal, so I think other states have more challenges with fraud. I saw a story of a man in Ohio who went to vote for Obama on a touch screen and his finger hit Obama’s name but rolled up, and there was very little space between the candidates names, so if he touched the line above, it came up McCain. He asked for help and they cleared it, tried again, and he did the same thing. They took a pencil with a soft eraser on the end and hit Obama and it registered Obama. So maybe you can get the word out to people to double check their vote as well as take a pencil with a soft eraser and touch the screen with that. I believe the vote is registered once the voter has checked out. Up until then, she/he can change their vote if there is a mistake. Another area to pay attention to is the transportation of paper ballots to the state. Can probably find out how, when and where they are transported. I think after this year I am going to do mail in ballot and get it over with early. Breathe easy if you can, don’t let rumors ruin your day. Peace and grace and peas and gravy.

By Frannie Em on 10/25/2008 2:33 pm

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Whirled peas and gravy to you, Ms. Frannie. I live in the congressional district of Rep. Barbara Lee; our US Senators are (as yours) Barbara Lee and Dianne Feinstein; Ron Dellums is our not-as-good-as-he-was-a-US-representative-Mayor — so we’re not too much worried about election fraud in Alameda County. I’m just worried about the fact that in my wildest imaginings, I didn’t think they could steal the last election, so I don’t think it’s out of reason to worry about this.

By Mugsy Peabody on 10/25/2008 6:58 pm

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Mugsy Whirled peas to you too. LOL I don’t have Barbara Lee, I have Dianne Feinstein, Barbara boxer and Buck McKeon. Do our best and Hope for the best.

By Frannie Em on 10/25/2008 9:18 pm

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Barbara Lee is my hero. Now there’s a real congressional maverick.

By Susan B on 10/25/2008 9:55 pm

It was hard for myself to choose between Medea Benjamin and Melinda Gates . I went ultimately with Medea Benjamin, because Peace is The Way, for My way of Thinking.

By Jennifer Dooley on 10/24/2008 6:39 pm

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Sorry. . . but I can’t vote for people, women, who are presently in the news — but long-range may be shown to not have made the impact that has been proven big time by women in the past. So much now is run by the media publicity —- the past women quietly made their footsteps, large and deep, in the future of the world without their names in lights. Those are the women of real greatness. . the real women to look up to.

By joan larsen on 10/24/2008 6:51 pm

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Thank you, Joan. I am sort of horrified to see all these “big news women” listed here. Well and good, but where is Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, probably the most powerful woman in the world. Why didn’t they put Tzipi Livni who will be the Prime Minister of Israel? Think of the women in medicine, law and the arts. Why do the wow people have Sarah Palin, of all people on this list? She pales in comparison to Merkel or Hillary Clinton. The list we were provided were the who’s who of People magazine or something, although several have great noteriety, I think the list needs to be re-evaluated. And, even though I am not a Condi Rice fan by a long shot, why is she not on the list?

By Diana T on 10/24/2008 10:06 pm

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Diana, It is always so good to talk to you — and find we agree so much on things. Even Condi. But this sort of question is guesswork. Do we judge someone - and that list is so bad - but how can we judge someone before we have seen how what they are doing has played out? The question bothers me. The choices bother me more. Merkel probably is the best, but lets see her through her career first and then judge how she stood up against others before her. Does it have to be about politics? There are women that I have revered in the environmental field — undersea explorers like Sylvia Earle who are at the forefront of discovery and have proved that they are at the top. That is my interest so could go on — and these women show more guts and bravery than the others as well as increase the world’s knowledge. I guess I want PROVEN worth - not those few in this list that are in the process of PROVING their worth. But we are inundated with the media who keeps their favorites in the public eye — until we are brainwashed - the dumbest of us are anyhow - and think THEY are all there is. Guess I have to stay away from some of these questions — but have to say my piece on them.

By joan larsen on 10/24/2008 10:41 pm