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Subject: Lottery System
stacey_162002@hotmail.com    3/18/2002 10:59:34 AM
Dear Readers,

Im doing a research project over the Military Draft during the Vietnam war. I would like to know why it was replaced with the Lottary system. Please no Plagerism. E mail me at the above address.
 
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Texastillidie    RE:Lottery System    3/5/2006 10:55:56 PM
There were many instances of, and a general perception of favoritism in the system run by the draft board early on in the war. Several congressmen used influence and got their kids "passed over". Coverage in the press of these things caused the lottery system to be put in place.
 
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