[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"Compared to counties with paper ballots, counties with electronic voting machines were significantly more likely to show increases in support for President Bush between 2000 (election) and 2004," the study said.

. . . suggesting that the measurement in the electronic system in 2004 overstated the Bush vote or that the measurement in the paper ballot system in 2000 understated the Bush vote.

Given that the issue arises in a county in which the Election Officials are Democrats . . .

[chitownfreeper]

Again, have both dem and republican judges look at the paper receipts as the votes are being tabulated on a computer. And we should have strong networks to raise hell if they try to cheat.

I don't care if it's in the middle of Detroit, if we've got judges watching every vote and counting them as they go along, we'll be fine. Especially if we have paper receipts.

Then we won't have to speculate. We can come up with paper receipts for ATMs, surely we can do it for our democracy.