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		<title>Green Card, Red Faces</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/06/21/green-card-red-faces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Government is being sued in a massive class-action suit representing Green Card applicants from over 30 countries which alleges that the United States unfairly denied 22,000 people a Green Card due to a computer blunder. This story is reported in the Irish Times and the Wall Street Journal. It is not in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electoral finger flub causes kerfuffle</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/04/01/electoral-finger-flub-causes-kerfuffle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canadian IQTrainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via the twitters and google comes this story from Oh Canada about the unforeseen confluence of an election, the adoption of new technology (QR codes), and a careless fingerflub that has resulted in a bit of embarassment for a Liberal party candidate. This is the comedic counterpoint to our story last month of the finger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duff Data dumps 1 million on the dole (social security)&#8230; in France.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal Justice IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Register carries a story this week that clearly shows  the impact of poor quality information on people, particularly in this time of tightening economic conditions when getting a job is hard enough. It appears that the French Government&#8217;s Police Vetting database is not very complete or accurate. According to the French Data Protection authorities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IQ trainwrecks makes YouTube</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/11/02/iq-trainwrecks-makes-youtube/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/11/02/iq-trainwrecks-makes-youtube/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Underdown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a story of an IQ trainwreck that i bing presented on YouTube. In fact YouTube turns out to be an interesting resource for IQ visual material.]]></description>
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		<title>Trusted Electoral Information</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/10/24/trusted-electoral-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Process IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In every democracy citizens must be able to trust that the State will not impede their right to vote through any act or omission on the part of the State or its agents. Regular visitors to the iqtrainwrecks.com blog will know that Ireland has it's fair share of problems with its electoral register. Of course, that isn't news. However, the Washington Post has reported last weekend (18th October) that the US elections are being plagued by similar issues. The New York Times covers the same ground in this story from 9th October. With a slightly important vote coming up on the 4th of November, that is news]]></description>
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		<title>Super Tuesday &#8211; Gloomy e-voting Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/02/06/super-tuesday-gloomy-e-voting-wednesday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/02/06/super-tuesday-gloomy-e-voting-wednesday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political World IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trainwreck Compendium]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Register has highlighted not one but two potential information quality problems with the ballots being cast in the pre-Presidential primaries in the US. Firstly, Democrats Abroad decided to support Democrats living overseas by letting them vote on-line. This sounds like an excellent idea, this &#8216;electronic voting&#8217;. However, there seem to have been some concerns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, they&#8217;ve got guns and are trained to kill&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/12/11/so-theyve-got-guns-and-are-trained-to-kill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/12/11/so-theyve-got-guns-and-are-trained-to-kill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[let&#8217;s screw with their pay&#8230; From the erstwhile The Register comes this story about on-going information quality problems in the British Forces pay and personnel system. There have been complaints of pay being withheld for months. The MOD blames the data input monkeys  staff and insists that the system is working fine. “Input errors based on a degree [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More people registered to vote than live in Ireland</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/04/18/more-people-registered-to-vote-than-live-in-ireland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/04/18/more-people-registered-to-vote-than-live-in-ireland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Irish IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political World IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The background An Irish Sunday Newspaper broke the story in 2006 that there were up to 860,000 more people registered to vote in the Irish Republic than actually lived there. To put that in perspective, the number of persons resident in Ireland who were of an age to vote was only approximately 2.6 million or [...]]]></description>
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