In a message dated 11/14/2000 11:10:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > By the way, if you're all interested, you can read my election thoughts at: > http://www.maynardville.com/article/f3.htm > > Chip, et al. Greetings from idiot filled Florida. When I first voted, after my move to this rural Florida county, I wondered why they use the old style optical scan ballots whereby you use a black marking pen to darken the little circles and then cross the room to run it through the counting machine. Now I know. This system tosses out the idiot ballots on the spot. They tell you that you're an idiot right there in front of everyone. Before going out to vote this year I heard some city slicker on TV talking about our "more sophisticated electorate" in the year 2000. Yeah, right! I then went to the polls and heard some joker tell a poll worker on his third try to have his ballot accepted that he had every right to vote for more than one candidate for President if he wanted to but if it didn't go through this time, "Just put me down for all the Democrats". Another said the reason Gore was now the VP was because he came in second to Clinton in the last election and he wanted Buchanan to be the Vice President to "keep Gore straight". The eyeballs of the workers were spinning around in their heads like steel balls in a pinball machine. One poor lady told me it was her last year to work -- she has had enough of this type of thing and that it is getting worse each year. One voting machine company person was quoted yesterday as saying that each time they improve their machine they try to make it more idiot proof but then someone comes up with a better idiot. What was it Pogo said? Something like "we has met the enemy and it is us"? We don't need Motor Voter down here, we need IQ tests. Gail