Body and Soul has some good observations and links that should be read...

Machiavelli's Prints

Has anyone noticed that the defense of electronic voting machines seems to have moved in a new direction? We started with the "don't worry your pretty little heads" argument, implying that only paranoids and conspiracy nuts worried about twenty percent of Americans -- and more in a few key states -- voting in this year's presidential election on machines that offered no hard evidence that the votes cast were the ones counted, and that denied voters the possibility of a recount in a close election (which this one almost certainly will be). Unfortunately for the makers of electronic voting machines, a lot of the critics were disappointingly sane, downright reliable, in fact. And after big problems with the machines in recent primary elections in both California and Florida, even people who don't really care that much about this kind of stuff are starting to notice. Even though the media source most Americans get their news from isn't covering the story.

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Waking Up the Vote
By Doris "Granny D" Haddock
Doris "Granny D" Haddock, 94, is on a 15,000-mile voter registration trek through the swing states. The following is a speech she gave in Gainesville, Florida on March 7.

I am on a long trek across our beautiful country to see what one person and a few friends might do to engage more citizens in this democracy and to have them participate in the coming election in a way that will provide us with leadership that we will all have had a hand in selecting. That may seem like boring old politics, but it is much more than that, at least to me. And my journey is a great joy.

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If any of my Washington State readers are not registered to vote, here is how to redeem yourself. You can download the form and mail it in. Register. You know who to vote for, or you wouldn't be here.

Register to Vote

To register to vote in the state of Washington, you must be: A citizen of the United States A legal resident of Washington state At least 18 years old by election day

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