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This whole move to paper ballots is so misleading, because it still won't allow us to audit our own vote after an election. There is a simple, inexpensive way to do this, but it's so difficult being heard above the noise. It's called "Vote Word" and it's described here: www.voteword.org

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/obama-doj-worse-than-bush

Please read the Electronic Frontier Foundations summary of the arguments made by the Obama Administration. EFF brought the case to court for to revoke the wiretapping and lost.

ask nbc universal (cnbc) about their spy-cam/ surveillance program. it's not the government, it's the media that has become the big snoop in the 21st century.
of course they would deny this, and that would be a lie. I'm very encouraged about the supreme court's ruling today.

yep thank you very much representative, that was clear as mud.

I guess he is probably innocuous, but what a tiresome bore! "Refreshing"??????? Hardly. A typical politician-- he yammers on and says almost nothing. Don't these robots ever listen to themselves? If this interview went one a single minute longer, I'd have turned off the radio.

We do have police acting secretly. The NYPD and others have infiltrated protest groups.

The Department of Defense is training people that protesters are "low level terrorists" (that's the DoD's language). The ACLU has ongoing legal action against this identification of *legal speech acts* being identified with terrorism.

No secret police in America? The NSA wasn't even acknowledged for the longest time. What about what the NYPD did at the Republican convention?

Oh Really? Who says we don't have "secret police"

Why can't we have electronic ballots with a voter verifiable paper trail?

Hey! He just said something sincere and meaningful! I change my mind about this guy!

Bravo, Rush Holt!

It is refreshing to hear a member of Congress so clearly advocating democracy, both in electoral procedure and with regard to Bush, now Obama, domestic spying. (That spying being a clear violation of the Constitutional prohibitions against unreasonable searches.)

open source electronic balloting

When I bank at an ATM it spits out a reciept of the transaction, why can electronic voting machine not be required to do the same

The issue I see with paper ballots is that it's an enormous amount of paper being wasted every year. How would you make paper ballots environmentally friendly?

Good Grief .. .who got to this very nervous Representative .. Brian, you need a deep throat who has no fear of reprisal!

Brian, that did not sound like President Obama said "Oops we didn't know this was still going on" read that part please.

Brian, play the clip of him saying "Oops we didn't know this was still going on" please.

Please ask Rep. Holt if he thinks that Republicans truly believe that wiretapping without a warrant helps protect us, or if they are really just a bunch of scumbags trying to make Democrats look weak.

Change? my a**! I have to say I'm becoming more and more disenchanted (if that's the right word) with President Obama and his administration. This spying by NSA and other Bush policies that are staying in place are the issues that got lots of folks out to vote for Mr. Obama in the first place. I for one am ambiguous as to whether I would vote for him were he to run today; I lean toward a negative on this, that's how disappointed I am. I hope Rep Holt is sincere in his investigation and not just "putting on a show" for us that will go nowhere because they don't really take it anywhere. He's got my support.

After having been subjected to headlines about Mark Sanford's adulterous emails, I'd almost rather the NSA had my email than, say, the media.

I'm feeling violated just knowing that The NYTimes and talkingpointsmemo.com published parts of the private, adulterous correspondence of Mark Sanford.

I totally understand why it is relevant - the email was essentially written on the taxpayer's dime. And Sanford's hypocrisy is incredibly galling - even more so to people directly impacted by his conservative political positions on everything from gay marriage to the stimulus.

But having been in the position of having to defend President Clinton to friends and coworkers during "L'Affaire Lewinsky", and having been frankly assaulted with the details of that really dismal affair (he didn't even... well, you know) in the pages of the Times (thanks to Ken Starr's "brilliant" prosecution -ugh) I'd like to make a suggestion:

No more details. Please. Just like I didn't need to know about the Lewinsky-flavored cigar (ugh! read to me by my Republican co-worker who was rolling on the floor laughing at work! ugh!) I don't need to know about whatever Sanford wrote to his Argentine whatever.

I also don't want to see us turn into the new Ken Starr. I always thought we were better than this.