As I have stated before, there are no objective references. Let's use mainstream references as a substitute. There is no serious debate in the mainstream media about whether the 2004 election was stolen. The BS piece by RFK, Jr. doesn't count.
Realistically, how can you keep people from breaking the law? You can't with 100% certainty, you can only put a structure in place to make it difficult, monitor the process, and punish the transgressors. Moreover, these systems are in place on a state by state basis, because that is how our government works. Take Maryland, for instance. It is a heavily Democratic state where the legislature has just enacted a law that says 1. people do not have to provide id at a polling place in order to vote (on the notion that poor people might not have id) and 2. you can vote at any polling place, not only your registered polling place. So the system they have enacted is, in short, an open invitation to voter fraud. My preference would be for some sort of online voting system that would enable the average voter to totally bypass polling places and the partisan party systems that control them. There are certainly difficult challenges in fraud prevention with an online system, but if banks and credit card companies can run their businesses online, certainly we can run elections online. Some provision would need to be made for people without computers (library access, etc.). I am not suggesting the system would be foolproof, but it could hardly be worse than the current system, and it would have the added benefits of convenience and direct participation in circumvention of the established parties. On 6/14/06, Dana wrote: > > Find me an objective refrence and I'll believe it. It may well be so -- > I've seen Democratic party machines before. But if you want me to believe it > , you'll have to do better than that. Mother Jones was there to connect the > dots. The people on the right are not questioning the election as they are > mostly pleased with the results, however they were arrived at. Of course, > it's pretty easy to say that anyone who questions Bush must be a leftist. > This seems to be your point of view. I'm damn sure that I never said that > all Democrats are angels, as I don't think that. I do think that their > current opponents are dangerous, though. So if you are done constructing > straw mwn, perhaps we could talk about how to keep people from cheating in > elections. Or do you not think this would be a good thing? > -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:209311 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
