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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>James Clement<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] electronic voting again<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br>On Jul 7, 2012 7:18 PM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span> So here we are, coming up for the fifith major US election<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span>but we are no closer to having that system now than we were 16 yrs ago<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span> Yet somehow we just can’t seem to get any traction on a problem that can be solved with fairly straightforward technology.<br>><br>> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Spike,<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>Incumbents and political party hacks<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>run the elections, and they have absolutely no incentive to let the people decide anything<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span>James<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ja, we had similar comments before, but the way I am going with this is not the motive, but rather by noting the danger of civil unrest if we have another super close election, as this one is shaping up to be. In 2000 it came down to a single state (Florida) and it was one of those oddball cases where one feller won the popular vote but the other feller won Florida by a whisker and took the electoral vote. I don’t recall either of their names, but it didn’t matter much. This time, that decider state could be Florida again, or it could be Ohio or Virginia, but the point is, if we have a disputed election, this time it has far greater consequences than it did in 2000. In that one, no one really cared much, because the candidates were practically identical on everything. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This time it really is different. There is a lot riding on this election, and if there is suspicious activity and a disputed outcome, we face real trouble. The hell of it is, we are doing this to ourselves intentionally. I don’t understand that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>