You ever the get the feeling that the best response to BBV...

[Liberal Veteran]

...would be the same one as the scary women with axes of the temperance movement?

Just rush in and bash the machines with hand axes and leave really fast...

(I am of course only kidding, but those women certainly made a name for themselves in history and if Carrie Nation existed today she'd probably be shipped to Gitmo.)

[LibInternationalist]

1. if the situation isn't remedied by next election

it may come to this

[Liberal Veteran]

2. I am big fan of optical scanners myself....

Yeah they are tabulated by computer, but the bottom line is that they can be handcounted VERY easily.

[Lex]

3. Sometimes people storm the Parliment & make demands (see article)

Exit Polls to Protect the Vote (New York Times)

By MARTIN PLISSNER
Published: October 17, 2004

WASHINGTON — Since the 1960's, the exit poll, that staple of election-night television, has been used along with other tools to declare winners when the polls close in each state, and its accuracy is noted later when the actual vote count proves it right. A landmark exception, of course, came in 2000, when the networks initially gave the decisive Florida vote to Al Gore.

. . . .

Last fall, an American firm, whose polling clients have included Al Gore and John Edwards, was hired by some international foundations to conduct an exit poll in the former Soviet republic of Georgia during a parliamentary election. On Election Day, the firm, Global Strategy Group, projected a victory for the main opposition party. When the sitting government counted the votes, however, it announced that its own slate of candidates had won. Supporters of the opposition stormed the Parliament, and the president, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, later resigned under pressure from the United States and Russia.

Full article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/weekinreview/17plis.html