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 Politics : Fair and Balanced-'Duties Of a Democracy'

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To: longnshort who wrote (749)11/3/2006 1:52:42 AM
From: CozRead Replies (2) of 1262
 
The Democrat-controlled legislature this year killed a bill that would have set up machines to scan paper ballots. WHY

It amazes me the way you will find one line in a thousand word article that seems to say something bad about a democrat and that is the only thing you see.

I tried to look this up at the Washington Post, but could not find it there yet... maybe tomorrow. But, it looks to me like you added the word "WHY". I couldn't begin to answer that as this is not what this article is about, but I could guess that they had already purchased the touch screen machines, or perhaps it has something to do with HAVA. I know the Help Americans Vote Act was had a bias toward paperless systems to which I can only say WHY?

Regardless, I'm not trying to say Democrats have never committed voter fraud or even that they would never do it now. What I was getting at is that most Americans will either be voting on or having their votes tabulated by electronic machines that are easily hackable. This is just intolerable as it will kill what is left of our democracy if people cannot believe in the results of elections. Paper ballots would go a long way towards correcting this.

As far as voter fraud, voter intimidation, voter manipulation, or any other act of voter disenfranchisement goes. I have absolutely NO sympathy for anyone who does that regardless if they are Republicans, Democrats, or anything else. It ought to be considered an act of treason to do these things. I would hope we could all agree with this.

--Coz
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