Reader Lee Young, of Brevard, NC, writes about Greg Palast:

Palast's basic premise is that everyone who wants to vote, should have their vote counted ... whether or not they are at the right polling place, in the right state, on the right day, at the right time and whether or not they comply with the instructions on how to vote. He would probably count the votes of those who got lost on the way to the polls, or the ones who got sick and it was too late to get an absentee ballot, or the registered voters who never missed an opportunity to vote and die before casting their ballot. He is somehow able to discern the intent of the voter by virtue of the ethnicity percentage in a given precinct and yet exit pollers in the last two Presidential elections got it wrong, talking to the actual voters.

If you believe that people are not responsible for their actions, decisions, or compliance with rules that govern everyone else, then you can reach the conclusions this guy does. If certain groups claim that voting is too difficult or inconvenient, then you change the system to accommodate them ... if they fail to comply with the rules governing voting, then you accommodate them ... if you have to pass a ballot over a Ouija Board to discern the intent of the voter, you accommodate them ...if the profile of the voter that your party targets is the poor, the less educated, the insecure, the secular, the gullible, the immature, those seeking handouts, the ill informed, the fringe elements of society, and the elite who knows what's best for them and everyone else, then you accommodate them ....