A two year extension to HAVA - EVM purchases - WHOOPEE !!! For Diebold !!

The electronic voting machine purveyors ought to be hap-hap-happy about that. The voting public and those with concern about election integrity and verifiable counting of the vote results have little to celebrate.

A paper ballot - by law - sealed and saved for two years - so contested elections can be recounted - is cause for an American celebration, because then democracy has been advanced rather than open to being subverted by the unscrupulous and a criminal element.

A hard copy paper ballot - rather than a "faith based" bogus electronic record - is reason for us to then cheer and applaud. Otherwise our elections are open to contaminated results and tampering. Secret Black-box electronic voting only makes Nazi/Fascists ecstatic and jump for joy.

Old Turk If they had their way, they'd outlaw voting. Outlaw peaceable assembly.

Oh wait... Duh...

I guess we can just bitch about it in our blogs. Since we are not real journalists. (excluding the few REAL ones out there) Ya know, I really wonder about all those press credentials, I been saying that, and folks at local venues can put a stop to em... Na they won't.

How much does it cost to get one of those cards around my neck?

That's all I wanna know.

That way I can go to a protest and get shot with rubber bullets have my camera's smashed, and gassed with god knows what chemicals.