I agree Nerd. But any voting system can be jimmied. Do I believe that voter fraud had enough of an impact to throw the election to Bush? No, I don't.

Here is the thing. As long as nostalgia for "tradition" reigns, the US is going to continue with these idiotic elections. There is no reason why we don't have ATM style, receipt producing voting machines aren't being used in every single polling place across the US. None whatsoever, except this nostalgia for states' voting "traditions" and the fears of the luddite faction of the boomer generation, which is not be underestimated.

It is just ridiculous. I'm not saying that technology can solve all our electoal problems or even the problems of vote counting.

I just wish people were half as obsessed with the levels of graft and corruption of the political system in the US by the global capitalist lobbyist/appointee bureaucrat revolving door, as they are with measley voter fraud and count malfunctions. Then I might think there was hope for the US after all.

But as it is, and especially in the wake of all the progressive left has given up just to lose this election, I'm not exactly holding my breath that the boomer Republicrats who claim to be so progressive to have a born again experience with election technology!