One of the articles cited in one of the websites makes the point that the founding fathers created a scenario whereby functions that are for the public good should be the responsibility of the government---i.e. public safety, health (that came later), etc; What, pray tell, is more important than transparent elections (the article goes on to say). That should be the function of the gov't and not left to private for profit companies who's results cannot be audited. The article goes on to say that in (heaven help us) Germany has the most honest and simple way---paper ballots---hand counted with supervision by government empoyees. The cost---less than all this high tech stuff--just overtime for human beings.

It seems to me that this new unaudited computer voting has the possibility---if it has not already---to make LBJ's ballot stuffing in his early years in TX look almost amateurish.

Now I do not claim to know if there was hanky-panky in OH or FL or anywhere else. But, the perception surely suggests such. My dissapointment in the Dems not following through on their original--every vote counts and every vote will be counted---saddens me. More than "sadden"--upsets me.


Bill Hahn