Reply #39: I guess I missed the part where I have no experience.

[Bill Bored]

I said I've been to hearings and testified at hearings. Just not this particular one. But I've seen the video and read the reports and the testimony. Other than actually being elected to office or working as a staff member, I'm not sure how to get any more experience thant that.

That said, are you suggesting that there is no point in having any legislation at all? If so, then what alternative is there?

The Land Shark (litigation) approach in which the decision is left up to judges who may not even be elected and may be accountable essentially to no one? Well that's underway in several states already. In PA they had to replace non-computerized lever machines with hackable paperless DREs. In Florida, Congressman Wexler can't even get the courts to agree that there is a right to a recount. And that case has been going on for years!

So I think putting all our eggs in the litigation basket may not be such a great idea.

In North Carolina they've got some pretty strong laws on the books and so do NY and MN and a few other states. I understand that you can ask for recounts in TX if you have less than a 10% margin in a race. That's HUGE! So how come no paper to recount then? (HR 550 would provide that.)

At least if a legislator screws up, he/she risks being voted out of office, but then of course that would require free and fair elections wouldn't it? So maybe we're just too late to do anything about any of this crap and the party's over. That's the impression I get sometimes from reading some of these posts, but silly me -- I think it's worth a try to save the republic anyway. And I'm more comfortable pursuing that through more than just one avenue.