A couple of vote notes...

Let America Vote: Brad Friedman's push for an emergency paper ballot bill is gaining some traction. Alas, we have but a few days left for action. We now have an easy webpage where you can blast your email demands in a mere 30 seconds.

RFK Jr. hits 'em again: He has a new Rolling Stone piece on the hacking of the upcoming election. But I cannot fully agree with this statement:

Indeed, there is a remarkably simple solution: equip every touch-screen machine to provide paper receipts that can be verified by voters and recounted in the event of malfunction or tampering. "The paper is the insurance against the cheating machine," says Rubin, the computer expert.

The paper trail comes into play only if the margin of victory is so narrow as to mandate a recount. Otherwise, the losing candidate must pay for a recount -- which can be prohibitively expensive.

By the way, I was originally told that Kennedy wrote this piece in conjunction with Dick Russell, who wrote a very good book about the plot to kill RFK Jr.'s uncle. Heretofore, all members of the Kennedy family (especially those with political ambitions) have kept their distance from the assassination research community.