Reply #21: With all due respect,

[RaulVB]

You have made up your mind, fine, indeed is your privilege.

I was raised in a country (Chile) where I ACTUALLY USED PAPER BALLOTS AND NO MACHINES WERE INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS. We had 8 miilions of votes average counted in 3.5 hours. No recounts, no fraud, the ACTUAL WINNER WAS ELECTED EVERY TIME.

Your concern about the splits is secondary, IMO.

If Americans are presented with the TRUTH they sure will understand that there are different priorities and some elections are MORE RELEVANT THAN OTHERS.

Presidential elections, for Governor, Senate races, Congress races, State legislature, Mayor of your city can be, should be represented as in a class of their own, and AN ALL PAPER HAND-COUNTED VOTING COULD TAKE PLACE FAIRLY EASILY.

You have, in this country, the advantage of very flexible rules that also, unfortunately, have made the fraud achievable ALMOST WITHOUT EFFORT.

For local matters that affect your daily life, there IS NO OBSTACLE to petition or make referendums or to include ballots with particular issues that affect the community. The votes on those instances could be counted by machine-based voting systems, NO PROBLEM.

As other have already said, WAKE UP.

Your "compromise" will be bulldozed by Republicans sooner or later.

Just my opinion.