A perfect conservative issue for Democrats

Let's return to the era of civic duty, rather than rely on technology to aid voting. Let's do it the old fashioned way, with ballots, boxes, and witnesses to watch the process and count the votes.

Technology is raising too many doubts in too many people's minds. How can you trust that machinery not to fail? How can trust unethical people from using software glitches to corrupt the vote the count? How can rely on expensive machines when often there are simply not enough to go around?

I once read that the French vote with a ballot and box. People put their ballots in boxes and at the end of the day, the votes are counted a big table with pelnty of witnesses standing around. It's so simple, so, honest, and it invites people to do their civic duty and participate in poll watching.

I think it the issue was put in terms of civic duty instead of electronic voting, it would appeal to a lot of people. I think if we end up getting into a debate about technology, bugs, glitches, wireless communication, and so on, the truth can be drowned out by the details.

That would be my choice.

Real Americans retire to their individual homes and spend their spare time sitting in front of a television screen, isolated from their neighbors and even other family members.

Civic duty? That's gone the way of the dodo in the U-S-of-A.

That's the way it was done in the 50s. The repubs. and the dems each had an observer and it worked out mostly ok.

....should we abandon electronic voting machines?

About 85% said yes!!

That way we could sell our votes through our TiVOs to a vote consolidator who would then deliver them directly to the PACs to decide how to spend them.

So more people will be able to participate (in the voting, the counting, AND the witnessing), we need to make Election Day a National Holiday.