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To: sea_urchin who wrote (21832)	11/5/2004 6:19:11 PM
From: philv	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 80976

Up in the frozen backward north here, our voting is with paper, and we vote at a designated location, where we are stricken off the roll when we present ourselves. The votes are counted within minutes of the poll closing. Maybe what is behind the electronic voting in the US is the number of choices and issues voted for? In any case, I like our old paper system and hope it never changes. But ya never know....maybe one day we will be voting via the internet for WORLD PRESIDENT.

To: sea_urchin who wrote (21832)	11/5/2004 6:55:49 PM
From: Scripts	Respond to of 80976

Hi Ssearle: In Canada there is no request for ID at all. Just go to the desk tell them your name and address and they give you a ballot. You can be challenged and have to produce some ID but I've never seen it happen in my 60 years. I think it depends on the culture and the level of civilization achieved so far. They used to buy votes for a bottle of whiskey but that seems long gone.

To: sea_urchin who wrote (21832)	11/5/2004 7:08:21 PM
From: Scripts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 80976

Hi Again. I read the articles about voter machine error and they all seem to be the result of faulty programming or similiar misunderstandings. There seems no sign of a conspiracy. Some machines were found in Pennsylvania to have several hundred votes register before the polling began. Later it was found that the people reading the counters were reading "clock" figures i.e. how many votes the machine had counted since it was put into operation maybe in the last election and not the counter from the 2004 election. I think this explains a lot. In the US each state selects its own officials , rules , machines etc. Most are people from our generation and before and have no idea how these things work or an ability to learn.