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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (65943)	11/5/2002 3:06:26 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

I'm reading a number of articles about voting irregularities in several areas. In some cases, votes cast for a Democratic candidate show up as votes cast for a Republican candidate; in others, the opposite happens. In some Maryland precinct the Ballot says "Democratic' at the top. This is supposed to be reassuring? And with these electronic voting machines, once you push the button, apparently there is NO way anybody can know whether the machine counted your vote in the way you intended. You can buy a 24 cent item at WalMart and get a paper receipt which tells you that it was scanned correctly (or gives you a way to get your money back if the scanner malfunctioned or was programmed wrong.) But vote for the Senator who may lead us to war or peace, and you get nothing but the hope that the machine is working right. Seeing that all those machines are programmed and operated by civil servants, and that some civil servants have very strong political views and the technical capability to control the way the machines respond, this is not reassuring.

To: one_less who wrote (65943)	11/5/2002 3:38:48 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

One is tempted to approve of the School Board's decision in this case to allow a gay support group to meet on school grounds. courier-journal.com Until one realizes that under this principle the school will also be required to allow meetings on school property of pedophile support groups, the man-boy (or is it boy-man?) love group, whatever its name is, I haven't across any mention of it in the press for several years but it probably still exists, a photography group if one exists that specializes in nude photography of young children (which apparently isn't illegal per se) and the like. Do we really want to open the doors to such groups in our schools? This decision says the school will have to if they apply.