Reply #27: I think what

[Joe Chi Minh]

will be important, Tuco, will be who checks ID. The whole election process needs to be run by non-local, professionally apolitical federal personnel, held to a very high standard, on pain of dismissal without appeal. The higher the official, the more rigorously held to account. It would, of course, imply a Republican party minus plutocrat recidivists, least of all, at the helm, for all of this to happen. But it would surely not be long before US elections were as sedately and properly conducted as elsewhere in the civilised world.

Really, I would like to see your elections set up and managed by Scandinavians, French, German, even UK personnel, with unobtrusive on-the-job training of suitable Americans to take it over in subequent elections. Some of the on-the-job training could take place during elections in Western European countries.

Simplicity needs to be the keyword, to obviate fraud and intimidation. "Where there's a will, there's a way", can work in a good sense as well as bad. Cheap and effective government depends upon the sense of personal repsonsibility of its citizens. Of course the short-termist plutocrats and corporations, who know the price of everything, and the value of nothing, won't consider it cheap (until they are Christianised), because they will be paying - AS THEY SHOULD - very much more tax.