And before you drag out that tired Nancy Pelosi bushwa, I've been a Red State Republican since 1978. My state adopted electronic machines with voter-verified paper ballots and was absolutely correct to do so.

The damn paperless touch-screen machines are simply unreliable. Period. End of story.

While there is always voter registration fraud, with people like Micky Mouse getting registered, there is no evidence that Micky Mouse actually showed up to vote, and the pollster allowed him to , and that he voted Democratic. So that charge just doesn't stick.

As far as exit polls go, if they are done fairly and ina non-partisan way, they are an extremely accurate way to oversee an election for fraud. That's why election watchdogs use them in other countries.

Lastly, if you are in favor of paper trails, and I have heard a lot of conservatives say that they are (I have no idea if you are a conservative), you have to ask yourself why is it that the only people fighting tooth and nail against a paper trail are republican politicians? If we all are in favor of it, why is it not a reality?

You might as well get used to it.

It looks like it...at least in the areas w/most of those close, competitive races, like Ohio and New York, etc. No word on whether or not the Dems will have the lawyers on hand to sue...., well, God, or......

Take a look at ACORN filing hundreds of bogus voter registrations. And this is in a state that the senate may very well hang on one voters vote. You are crying about possible conspiracies, but ignore actual voter fraud being done in your parties name. As in documented and convicted vote buying. Of multiple democrats.

Exit polls are not the election polls. If the idea of "Conservative" voters not wanting to talk to "liberal looking" pollsters (or even liberal pollsters disregarding their instructions and approaching "liberal looking" voters).

I personally would be happy to see a mandatory paper trail with electronic voting (which should toss out every electronic voting conspiracy theory, especially if the parties got to designate some "test" precincts to match the paper valid to the electronic totals. Would you be willing to have a voter ID to stop the ongoing voter registration fraud from the left?

When the government says trust us you know there is a a problem.

Can you please identify any GOP machine along the lines of Chicago, east st louis etc. There are some old yellow dog democrat hold outs down towards the border, but those are decidedly not GOP machines.

As another aside to this, I was talking to a friend who is a volunteer poll worker for the early voting this weekend (in Texas, most of the poll workers comes from party volunteers). He was saying the early voting volume was huge with the numbers looking more like 2004 vs 2002. This is in a state that no statewide office is in doubt of going to someone other than the republican. He is working in a precinct that really has no federal election in doubt (usual number of local elections in doubt though). So even though there is no real question on the outcome of most of the races above the local level, the people are voting in droves in the early election. I have heard anecdotal reports of similar early voting in other places around the country. So for some reason the turn out is looking to be huge even though the races being voted on are about as exciting as the Nelson/Harris election. There may be a republican GOTV 'machine' pushing people towards the polls, but it isn't an east st louis type of vote buying machine.

And Tim? It ain't speculation. And it ain't "unfettered access". It's their standard operational parameters that are badly broken.

In Chicago, St. Louis, Boston, Phil, NO there's not even a pretense that elections aren't rigged and they always favor the Dems.