10-05-2004 00:21									#151
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT Wern, weren't you even paying attention back in 2000? IYRC, it was the Dems who had the problem with the paper records, not the Reps.

IIRC, it wasn't paper records they had problems with but the automatic counting and punch buttons - which is also a method which makes it less controlable for voters what happens to their vote. It's not exactly wise to replace an already bad system with one worse one.
Also I can't believe that story of Florida marine soldiers who casted their letter-votes AFTER the deadline and their votes were actually counted! And this people tries to impose democracy on the rest of the world.

	10-05-2004 02:10									#152
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui Not the same at all. Doing 'everything he can' to help the Republicans win indicates all legal means. After all, I've heard people say they'll do 'everything they can' to help candidate A win... but none of those people have killed candidate B, but by your logic, you'd have be afraid of that .

That's a wonderful property of underlying social constructs such as morality... they come to be bound with words such as "can", as if doing something wrong is not within the real of the possible.

In German though, they make the difference between can't in the lawful/moral sense and in the technical capability one. German