All voting should be open to all in a democracy. AND, the following should be dumped by law!

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12. Don't forget the damned EVM's

The technology hurriedly implemented after HAVA that awarded maintenance & control of the voting machines to private partisan corps has rendered every election since vulnerable to untraceable hacking. That equipment was determined to be atrociously insecure by every single security geek who examined them. It also had a 9 year shelf life for functionality. So now, not only are they insecure, they are also degraded.

Optical Scanners employ paper ballots but the vote tallying software is suspect. Ballots are never scrutinized when margins of victory are greater than 3-5%. The percentage varies state to state.

This is not an argument to not vote. We have to overwhelm the machines with maximum participation.

Obama would have won by enormous landslides had it not been for flipping, & spoilage of millions of votes.

Kerry would have won also. The problem spread far beyond Ohio to all of the swing states. * had to win by the popular vote after the travesty of '00.