On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:20:54 -0500, JimH wrote:


Interestingly enough the Democrats demanded it after their idiot voters in
Palm Beach County could not understand a simple butterfly punch ballot. So
we spend $4 billion to go electronic and they now want paper ballots.

Really, only Democrats demanded a more accurate voting system? This may
be difficult for you to understand, but our previous system wasn't up to
the task of close elections. In past elections, that were not as close,
we never would have heard of Palm Beach. Those ballots would have simply
been thrown in the trash, as were 3 million ballots in the 2004 election,
including the 153,237 ballots trashed in Ohio. Kind of makes light of that
old statement, "Every vote counts", doesn't it? We have soldiers dying
trying to bring democracy to a foreign land, and you are whining about $4
billion spent to keep America a democracy?