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Sat 05 May 2007The first online election. Sort ofPresent Tense Shane HegartyThis is the first general election in which the internet will be a battleground. Which means it's time for candidates and party leaders to get busy on the keyboard. Or, at least, to shanghai someone from the party's youth wing into doing it for them. And yet, looking at the results you wonder whether it's something of a phoney war.