Reply #112: I agree with you. "Why trouble trouble?" Thank you for the kind words.

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It just doesn't look right and it seems Choicepoint is just one bad situation after another. It looks like the 'separation' process might be starting who knows. Free and fair elections is about ALL THE PEOPLE having a right to vote, knowing it was counted fairly, and being able to review/audit the process just as much as possible. There are multiple paths to that and the job is much bigger than any one person or group right now. Things should really start cooking after 2006. It looks like the elections will be a big mess, even if everyone running them decided to be totally efficient and above board. That will cause some real reform. England and Canada do all paper, all the time. There's no reason we couldn't do that very soon and still accommodate the handicapped voters, many of whom prefer to vote absentee anyway (upstate NY Board of Elections questionnaire, 90% want to continue absentee ballots over DRE's...boy HAVA was sure worth all the trouble).

Keep the faith, things will improve and then get much better if we just don't cave in to "the man";)