Doesn't surprise me that they didn't find anything wrong. I worked with the folks down there in the 2004 election. Everyone around me did a great job. And it was an insult to all of us who worked our asses off down there to say otherwise.

But let's see how many inaccuracies we can find...

• You can only get a ballot in one place in Multnomah County - the county elections office.

• We have one library card that works at all county libraries. There is nothing on them to say which library you got it at - at least there isn't on mine, my husband's, my sister's, my daughter's...

• And of course with our computerized system, it's much easier to tell if people have voted multiple times. It's gotten even easier now that we've gone to a statewide registration system. Had someone voted multiples times, it would have shown up as soon as the ballots were scanned into the computer. They'd be flagged before they were ever counted. It's not as if their vote immediately counts after filling it out. The barcode has to be scanned in, signature checked, outer envelope removed, etc.

• There is a system to monitor things. It's called poll watchers. And the Republicans had plenty of them down there. So many that they had to start rotating people out because there wasn't enough room. They regularly went out of the clearly marked areas and had to be asked to move back into the poll watcher area. I was accused of throwing away ballots by a small group of Republican poll watchers because people would hand me their outer envelope and/or ballot text paperwork to go in the trash when I was working the front door. There was no trash can, so they went into the apron we wore until we could get to a trash can. We ended up moving a trash can near the door, and we'd refuse to take anything from a voter - they had to throw the items away themselves.

There's my start... anyone else?

1)Hen house doors locked? Check. 2)Hen house windows secure? Check. 2)Chicken wire fencing secure? Check.

Ok, everything looks fine, ya'll can go to bed now.

Signed, Fox

Of course ya'll folks would absolutely believe an investigation of the Bush administration by the Bush administration?

Yip Yip

Rove's game was far greater than Oregon--"voter fraud" was a coordinated campaign between Rove and the justice department to stymie Dems, disenfranchise Dem voters, and steal elections. It's well-documented (see Talking Points Media), and goes back to pre-White House Texas. It was never a serious allegation; it was, as so many things related to Bush are, a subversion of the democratic process.

Coyote, you're barking up the wrong tree if you're suggesting that the Multnomah County Auditor's office is somehow in the pocket of the elections division just because they both have "Multnomah County" in their titles. The auditor is an independently elected official and the current auditor is a highly qualified professional whose integrity has never been called into question by any credible source.