At first I liked the Idea below but got to thinking and I think that if we did that the vote could be contested like say the loser of the election could say that well the totals were tallied by so and so and he/she is "?" (they winner) supporter and it was not fair or something like this. I think we need a non-interested party like the EC as long as NO GA CC's were part of the EC. It would be like as some of those in the past would twist the by-laws/guidelines to suit there agenda... ****************************************seperator****************************************************** Also, I would like to see a few CCs in GA begin working on our own voting software so we don't have to burden the EC with our requests in the future. (I can do some PHP programming and know others who can help. I suspect we could do some testing in less than one year.) ************************************************************************************************************* these are just some thoughts I had. Ed