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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Howard C. who wrote (506184)	12/8/2003 6:21:03 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I would be satisfied with a discussion on truth, justice, standing up for honor ... and the nobility of human beings who refuse to let despotic tyrannists rule the world. Feel free to carry on your partisan pettiness without me though...

To: Howard C. who wrote (506184)	12/8/2003 6:39:15 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I'm not sure how a paper trail would work. With punch cards we used to get the stubs but I don't ever remember them being mentioned in re-counts. Actually, it seems there would have to be a paper receipt for the precincts and then copy for the voter. Would the voter have to verify the accuracy of his copy at that moment? Would he have to deposit the precinct copy himself? I could see challenges that would take a pretty long time to sort out a winner, if indeed there was a possibility that the result would be accepted as true. I can just hear the losers saying, "but I was in a hurry and couldn't take time to verify" or "it's all so new, how can we be expected to know how to verify" or "the printing was so small and I didn't have my glasses with me, so I just trusted that it was right...."