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To: Triffin who wrote (138)	11/11/2000 10:17:37 PM
From: Triffin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 868

BC: TOO CLOSE TO CALL We're now in the 5th episode of the mini-series "Too Close To Call" Tonight's episode "The Palm Beach Count" or "Hanging By a Chad" ---------------------------------------------------- Enough humour .. this has become completely ridiculous; it's quite clear to me that we cannot afford as a nation to conduct future elections in the manner of the present one ever again .. We have 50 states running 50 different elections with no standardization on ballot design, either hand or electronic from one precinct to the next !! Absolutely unbelievable; I suppose a 'little' fraud is OK when a plurality in a given precinct exists, but what a joke !! At a minimum there should be uniform balloting precedures within states .. one ballot .. one system for recording votes .. preferrably there should be a 'standardized' national ballot that all states are required to use .. rather than continue to suffer with 50 seperate state balloting systems .. We also need a uniform verifyable way to count votes in real-time .. Forget the Electoral College .. it works just fine .. How we vote is broken .. The next administration should mandate a complete overhaul of present balloting/recording/counting procedures on a nation-wide basis and fix it .. I'm tired of "hanging by a chad" .. aren't you ??