"jps" wrote in message
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After a nine-month legal battle against incumbent Norm Coleman,
Franken was certified the winner of Minnesota's 2008 senatorial race
this week, with a vote margin of little more than 300 votes.

9 months, 300 votes. Makes me wonder if Florida isn't that bad. I have
often wondered if our votes in Canada and the USA are cooked anyway. Who is
verifing our vote counters? Seriously, who is?

Especially in this day and age of technology and we count votes by hand.
Might I suggest all you hear about Diebold is a government rouse to
discredit electronic voting because they fear it's potential for fairness
and accuracy!

Say we voted electronically. The system could post the votes to 7 places, 6
electronic transactions and then print the 7th for paper records. Only once
all 6 electronic counters at differnet places and organizations were posted,
then the print reciept. The voter verifies the paper, folds it and vote is
complete.

Now the key is the 6 outside organizations, the government certainly would
be one. But say ABC, MSNBC, a few univercities and an independant of
government does the others. They should all add up the same of the election
was crooked. If 5 agree, 2 do not, then you have a probability on who the
crooked bunch are.

And for verification, SSN/SIN needs to be provided and must match the name.
That way you can't vote 5 times. Of if you are an illegal, well they could
flag it quick.

And the results can be instant, polls close at say 7, results by 7:01 as all
6 electronic post at the same time and immediately. It isn't like they need
the time to figure out how many cards to rig as not to get caught by
statists.

All the secrecy and closed door counting, and chad under the officers
desk... can't say our counting system is any better than Iran.


"How utterly disrepectful and shameful," Carl Bentham writes on his
Talking Points memo blog. "Yes, Al Franken is a comedian and he has
made a lot of stupid jokes. But he's also proven himself to be
intelligent and knowledgeable about policy. To dismiss him as 'a
clown' is an ugly ad-hominem attack, a distortion of his character,
the sort of commentary one would expect from an pitiful schoolyard
bully rather than a United States Senator."