Pregnant chads and optical scanner?
Count by hand and mind your manners.
Buttterfly ballots, put them to rest
Simple answers are sometimes the best.
Pencil and paper, that's trick ,
Neat and cheap and fair and quick.

(And Jim Dixon, you asked for feedback about your long post in this thread, in that other presidential thread. Hit the bullseye. I can't really see how anyone can honestly see it any other way.

And the post didn't seem long to me - but then I'm a wordy bastard.

And I second what you said about the importance of people putting in paragraph-breaks. It makes my eyes spin when people don't do that, in a longish post, and I always find I tend to skip over it. And I'm not alone in this - which I'm sure is not what the writer intends should happen.)