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Fingers. If you want to vote for someone you cut off your finger and put it in a box. Most fingers wins. It'll mean only people who REALLY want a candidate will vote so you get the best government.
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The system used here is optical mark recognition. The ballots look like this.
That looks like the same thing we have here in southern Illinois.

Voting via internet would be ideal, but too prone to fraud.
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Hey guys,

I've used several different types of ballots in my life, paper, punch cards, computer. All of them are subject to abuse...what we need is a system that will deliver accuracy and give us back our democracy when we vote for president. So I propose:

One toll free number that dials an election server run by Eunuchs (or something). You put in your social security number and password and vote.

Simple...the politicians would never put it in because of apportionment...they couldn't fix elections any more. So this would need a grass roots effort. Say, we have that here don't we...hummmnnn.

What do you think?

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Using eunuchs is actually pretty funny as they are the political party that stopped the Chinese exploration of the world. Without going too deeply into the details, the Chinese trading fleet traveled all over the world (some historians believe it even made it to South America). Chinese porcelain was traded all over the 'known' world. Upon the fleet's return to China the fleet was dismantled because of the Eunuch Party pretty much controlled politics of the time and the Captain of the fleet bought his supplies, repairs and such from the most qualified rather then the eunuch's friends.

The last known Chinese eunuch died in December 1996

But I digress!
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Actually my fingers method is pretty stupid. Kinda rules out anonymous ballots if your prints are recorded :/
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Actually my fingers method is pretty stupid. Kinda rules out anonymous ballots if your prints are recorded :/
Ya, you don't want McCain thugs showing up at your house.
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Right. Beware of McCain.
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Right. Beware of McCain.
It is amazing, Dave -- where do you find this Bull Pucky? No one has a transcript of anything but the responses to the pucky.

You're just another 'ditto head' dupe spreading specious stuff around now that you see McCain/Palin is going down in flames.
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It is amazing, Dave -- where do you find this Bull Pucky? No one has a transcript of anything but the responses to the pucky.

You're just another 'ditto head' dupe spreading specious stuff around now that you see McCain/Palin is going down in flames.

we'll see - that lawyer's letter isn't a response - Dave, good find!
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It is amazing, Dave -- where do you find this Bull Pucky? No one has a transcript of anything but the responses to the pucky.

You're just another 'ditto head' dupe spreading specious stuff around now that you see McCain/Palin is going down in flames.
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