The vote on Cheney's impeachment may have moved a little closer:

We've reached the impeachment moment for Vice President Dick Cheney. We've pushed the cosponsor list for H. Res. 333 up to 14. Chairman John Conyers says that if we get 3 more he'll begin the impeachment proceedings.

(Democrats.com email). When there are 17 cosponsors Conyers will try to move impeachment along. Impeachment is a healthy thing in our structure.

Dredd,

My sign is PIECES, DEATH, #12.

Healthy would be to filter the CMSM crap through a PurePlus Filter before you drink it.

John,
I have not yet, in all the recent election integrity movement cacaphony, felt sure that the EI movement could come up with a single definition of "vote", "ballot", or "paper trail".

The EAC has an interesting statement when it comes to defining DRE:

They are an electronic implementation of the old mechanical lever systems. As with the lever machines, there is no ballot

(EAC Defines DRE, emphasis added). My mind wonders how there can be a vote if there is no ballot? And vice versa?

I would think that a vote is what is expressed thru a ballot and when there is no ballot there is no vote!

But alas, the dictionary definition of ballot offers no simple, clear definition that everyone would agree to either. That word traces back to "ball" which long ago was used in elections.

Alas again, the word "vote" (which descends from "vow") is likewise the subject of many dictionary definitions.

But if "vote" means a voter's expression, and a "ballot" is the way it is expressed, then there are as many forms of ballot as there are means of vote expression.

Here is a list that sets out vote type, (expression type), and [trail type]:

voice vote (sound ballot) [tape recording trail]
raised hand vote (visual ballot) [photo trail]
written down vote (paper ballot) [paper trail]
DRE (electron ballot) [file trail]
etc. (etc.) [etc.]

Let the disagreements begin ...

Phil #2

Sounds like you are saying don't eat the "yellow snow" ...