Not necessarily. It benefits the Republicans to keep turnout low by a number of means, which they regularly use, or have used. This isn't universally true of Republicans, though almost so of Republican politicians.

This election Charlie Crist, Republican governor of Florida, extended the hours of early voting and caught hell from members of his party because of it. They as much as admitted that high turnout would ruin any chances they might have.

There are plenty of cases of Republican Secretaries of State, for individual states, who distribute voting machines in such a way that precincts with large minority populations are underserved, precincts in which the democratic party has a higher percentage of supporters.

This doesn't mean that the Democrats are innocent of any of this sort of stuff, but recently the republican side has been much more egregious about it.

While Chicago has had huge problems with voter fraud under the Democrats, as did San Francisco, where until recently I lived, under Willie Brown, the case with ACORN is way overblown. Yes, some people that worked registering new voters for ACORN fakes registrations, and then ACORN put those obviously fake registrations in a separate pile when they turned in the registration. They were required *by law* to turn in all the registrations they got, even the obviously fake ones. They, in fact, helped the cases against people perpetrating voter registration fraud.

Correct. It's important not only that voters have faith in the system, but also that the system actually has a good record of counting votes. And that is a difficult task.

I think that having individuals check on their vote might work, but I don't see how you could do that and retain anonymous voting. I mean, you could retain anonymous voting and just let them check, but it would be nigh impossible for them to prove that their vote was counted incorrectly.

This is a huge issue. As someone who has more than one computer it annoys the hell out of me that I can't just hook my iPod up to any of them and have it work. You can get programs like senuti, but I don't want to have to do that, I just want it to connect.

Also, iTunes has issue with very large music libraries, like 500+ GB. It gets kinda sketch.