Reply #15: Go Hamilton County! I read a news item this morning that said

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that here in Maryland we're finally abandoning the electronic voting disaster experiment ($65 million down the shitter) and going back to the old optical scan paper ballots in time for the 2010 midterm elections. I wish we'd been able to switch in time for this election, but I'll tolerate the delay just to be rid of the fucking things. If we stripped any toxic computer parts out of them and bound up all the machines in the state with wire mesh, they might make a dandy artificial reef for oysters and blue crabs if dropped in the Chesapeake Bay. It could be named Diebold Reef.