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Fri - Oct 22 -

CLARK COUNTY BROUHAHA -

*The Guardian yesterday ran up the white flag and called a halt to 'Operation Clark County', the newspaper's ambitious scheme to recruit thousands of readers to persuade American voters in a swing state to kick out President George W Bush in next month's election.

The cancellation of the project came 24 hours after the first of some 14,000 letters from Guardian readers began arriving in Clark County. The missives led to widespread complaints about foreign interference in a US election.

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Albert Scardino, the paper's executive editor for news, simultaneously denied and conceded that an early halt had been called to the project. "It is roaringly, successfully completed. It has been an overwhelming triumph," he said.*

:: From David Rennie for The UK Telegraph ::

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+ And a good time was had by all!

It probably generated a lot of traffic for The Guardian, a British publication which most Americans probably had never heard of before. In this regard, one could claim it succeeded.

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