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To: John Carragher who wrote (88293)	11/25/2004 3:46:14 PM
From: Sig	Respond to of 794262

These new machines.. are paid for at the local level by taxpayers. My understanding is who wants to pay for these new machines if they feel the ones in their own district work ok.>> Voting machines were perfected over the years of experience. Its human error that screws the system, and new machines are not a big improvement, in fact may make it worse. But Politicians like to quiet the gripes, even if its from a minority of ten percent. So lobbyists for machine makers give them the hard sell- buy our machines-it will solve all the problems. At a nice price. And the taxpayers pay, even if a well printed fill-in-the blanks ballot with #2 pencils is best and lowest cost for small districts. So the system is working , and a common law for all requires that an Aleut village of 20 people will have to install an inoperable septic system in the permafrost for $200K or more to meet the EPA code. And then you get signs along the ocean - no diving- shallow water. How many of our thousands of miles of ocean beach are not shallow water?. And of course they should be printed in both Spanish and English. Why do we want to save the lives of morons? So some of them survive and hire a lawyer to sue.? Sig