" The only "counting scandal" to occur in Napa involves either the way the ballots are mailed out or the way they have been counted back in the office.

No "scandals" have occured at the polling places in Napa.

Mail in ballots are susceptable to fraud, especially among the elderly and people with disabilities. Napa DOES have a record of home health care assistants filling out absentee ballots for their charges; and not necessarily for the candidate the voter intended. "

" If you want to vote at home, just do it, but don't force me to! I like to go to the polling place. "

" When I was a youngster voting was a family and neighborly affair. After my folks came home from work we all (kids included) walked down to the polling place so my folks could vote. We visited with neighbors along the way who were doing the same thing. People stood around and chated after voting and the kids all played. This experience clearly influenced my life-long committment to vote, and the importance of voting. As an adult, I always took my children with me to vote and they always wanted to come, for the same reasons as I experienced in my youth. The loss of the polling place, for me, is like banning families from coming together at the dinner table. My local polling place was shut down, forcing me to use the mail or to drop off at another polling place. Unfortunately, another polling place does not bring my neighbors together. I do miss it and I am saddened for the loss of this enriching experience, for the voter as well as for our young children today. "

" Mail in ballots are susceptable to fraud, especially among the elderly and people with disabilities. Napa DOES have a record of home health care assistants filling out absentee ballots for their charges; and not necessarily for the candidate the voter intended. "

You have proof of this? By that I mean someone helping another person to vote but then not helping that person vote for who they wanted. "

" Oregon has ONLY vote-by-mail.

They save millions and they can audit their results by actually manually re-counting their paper ballots.

The Republicans are doing the usual blowing of smoke. But what's new about that!?!

~Ruff "

" like the ad used to say...(boy this will date me) where's the beef.....charges have been tossed out with a shred of evidence....which election, who are the health care assistants...if you know who did this, have you turned them in to the appropriate authorities for action...?


personally I prefer the walking to the booth...helps me renew my social contract, of being a participating member...but I will back just about anything that will boost voting numbers "