R&D: Justice Dept. Looks into Voting Machine Merger, Brazil’s Stance on Iran, and Bernanke Lectures the Senate on the Budget Deficit

Here is your R&D top five for March 4th:

Justice Dept. probes voting machine merger as midterm elections loom and questions multiply from the Minneapolis Star Tribune

How to Read Brazil’s Stance on Iran from the Council on Foreign Relations

Bernanke to Senate:  If You Want to Fix Job Deficit, Don’t Forget Budget Deficit from the Christian Science Monitor

Chile quake reconstruction ‘to take up to four years’ from the BBC

Syria: Israel trying to frame us from the Jerusalem Post