It doesn't look good for whoever makes it as president. Every move they make will be watched, evaluated andcompaired to what would have been if the other had become president.

I guess we have to wait for another 4 years so we can elect Hillery Clinton for president in 2004. We really should poole our brains and come up with a form of voting that is inexpensive, which can be implimented with little trouble at polling places country wide. Maybe something that uses the old 386's everyone is discarding these days. Then the vote can be sent electronically to the counties, which pass them on to state, then to mainframes that tally up the entire country.

-- Anonymous, November 18, 2000

Answers

Problem there is the cries of 'computer fraud' and 'hackers in the system' every time someone loses.

Can't see anything working without that universal ID card.

-- Anonymous, November 18, 2000

But that brings on the fear of "1984".

-- Anonymous, November 18, 2000

Hillary huh?

Jesus.

As to electronic voting, I sure as hell would NOT trust it. Call me a dweeb or a dork, but I like a paper record. Old fashioned yes, but least we can be assured that one talented hacker cannot change 100,000,000 votes with a keyboard and a modem.

-- Anonymous, November 18, 2000

Paul,

That's the problem that I see, too. There is so much at stake in a national election, the temptation would be great to bribe the programmers writing the software to provide back doors and other tricks.

So ... we end up with another gigantic federal effort complete with Dems and Repubs screaming at each other across the table. Not good.

Hey, we could always farm the software job out to the Indians. They write good software. :)

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2000

That's why the universal ID. Register each voter with a unique hashed number against their SS number or something. They vote by sticking the ID into any voter booth in the US. Computer compares their card with the list of whether or not they've voted in this election yet, and either calls the cops or lets them vote.

Want to check the results, rerun the hash algorithm and rebuild the voter table from the SS database.

Votes would be counted at whatever the home precinct was, no matter where the voter was physically.

By the time Congress allows us to use such a system, we'll all be linked together by machine telepathy and making all decisions by universal consensus. Or some such.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

Anita had a really good idea, but I forget where she posted it.

It had to do with mail-in voting. A month-long process or something. (OK, I also forget all the details.)

(HEY...I remembered whose idea it was, didn't I?).

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000