Reply #73: PS: Greetings to a fellow Mississipian

[Fly by night]

I'm an eighth generation mud-rat from Lowndes County, graduating from Lee High School (in the last segregated class there -- 1967). I would have had no problem relying on me and my classmates to count the votes, because we were much more concerned that we continue to be considered intelligent and honorable (particularly by adults) than that we be partisan. Besides, like rebellious kids everywhere, our parents' political affiliations were not necessarily our own.

Again, safeguards and redundancies will be important in any new verified voting system we implement. But high school honor societies wouldn't cost us anything and we would end up motivating those kids to get involved in the political process earlier -- to respect, treasure and covet the right to vote sooner than they do now.