of a punchcard. The FEC of course pointed this out years before, but since when has a government been anything but reactive? When 5 million people vote and the margin is .01% it's going to be hard to know for sure, but if you are filled purely with hate, and not interested in real discourse, then believe what you want. In fact, it seems more likely that Lieberman's opposition received the exact same number of votes. I mean, if you were out to fix it, wouldn't you at least be smart enough to make up a new number? The simplest explanation is usually the truth... unless you merely hate. Then it's a global conspiracy. It's laughable and sad. so in Canada, we have the partisan volunteers still doing all the scrutineering and the like, it's just that the decision to continue using plain paper ballots, with a single column of candidates, to be manually counted; there's a nonpartisan agency that keeps making that (good) decision (as well as things like standardizing signage for polling locations to make them easier to find, advertising that there will be an election, etc.) @ averroes--Actually, tax rates under various monarchist societies nominally ran well over 50%, in addition to the burdens of serfdom (in medieval times) for the lower classes, and excluding tithes that were required to the local church. Granted, the robber barons were more obvious in their use of force to extract wealth from their people, but that did not make the