> not sure of the point that kerry is making with this post. But am > sure that computerized vote counting is fool hardy. Another way to look at it is that the 'illegal' names would never have been found w/o the ability to electronically collate the village rolls that revealed multiple registrations and so on. But hey, its only 3 out of almost 50 million W Bengali citizens; would the course of democracy really be derailed if they hadnt been detected? And what of the BigBrother effect? - knowing that somebody thinks its Terribly Important may be all it takes to start devious minds thinking about tweaking the EVM... and the beginning of the BeanCounters regime. kerry
