> I wholeheartedly agree that companies should
> have nothing to do with elections and that paper
> ballots seem the least corrupt way to hold
> elections.
Wouldn't that be a FABULOUS irony in all of this . . . whereas the apparent TREND is to shift voting towards the more and more "mechanical" (with the coincident handing off of voting to the "machines" which have in ever other way taken over our lives) -- with some sort of ATM machine being the next step on the way to "instant" polling or "hyper-democracy" -- what if the actual result was to simply ask people to clearly write out their choices on a paper ballot?
Yikes!
This would shift the balance away from "point-and-click" robotic-confusion towards the need to understand how to spell and how to write clearly. Then only "humans" could actually VOTE.