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Project Vote Smart Web site in Philipsburg has raised $15 million

At the height of the last election season, as John Kerry and George W. Bush dueled for votes, a Web site generated from a ranch in southwestern Montana was drawing 400 hits per second.

That’s 24,000 hits per minute. And that’s about three times as many hits as the site was getting in the 2002 elections.

What were all those people looking for? Information about political candidates. And not just national candidates. Just about every candidate for just about every office. Forty thousand of them.

And who were those voters getting information from? Project Vote Smart http://www.vote-smart.org/ , headquartered on the Great Divide Ranch, 26 miles from Philipsburg.

This week, the organization, which moved to Montana from Oregon in 1999, posted another impressive number – $15 million.

By MICHAEL MOORE of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2005/04/09/news/mtregional/news05.txt

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