I worked the polls all day on Nov 7. I've got to tell you
that a very large number of the voters [even in an up scale
educated area] are idiots. As an example, after explaining
a woman that there were four pages on the ballot and the
VOTE button would be in-active until she had looked at and

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Here in Iowa, for the first time, we had the choice of voting either
electronically, using a bone-simple touch screen, or on paper.

Amazingly (to me) I was the ONLY person in line to choose to vote
electronically, while everyone else in this VERY left-wing area (the
last Republican elected here was in 1957) chose paper -- no doubt
because of all the liberal media gibberish about how the Republicans
were going to "steal" the election by using Diebold's computers...

What was really hilarious (to me) was that the people who voted on
paper were then directed (as always) to feed their ballot into a (you
guessed it!) computer tabulator! I just about died laughing.

My night manager, after being told this story, went to vote in a
different precinct. He had to *ask* to vote electronically, and their
response was "Why would you want to do *that*?" They were actively
discouraging the use of the new system.

And, as usual, no attempt was made to verify that I was, indeed, the
voter I said I was. Once again, I could easily have voted multiple
times, in multiple precincts. Yet we're spending thousands
(millions?) of dollars "tightening up the system" by investing in
computerized voting machines.

It is to weep.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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