"Indiana Dems searching for running mate"

Mayor Weinzapfel would be a good choice, but he has too much to lose if the ticket fizzles.

When will John Gregg finally drop off the "mention" list?

I'd like to see a southern Indiana state legislator as the LG candidate: someone like Dave Crooks or Matt Pierce.

I too would love to see Weinzapfel in the office, but he would probably do bettter to run for Senate when the time comes rather than leave Evansville so early in his term.

The LG should come from the southern half of the state to balance JLT's hold in the north, but beyond Jonathan I have no real suggestions.

Nice blue suit, Jill. Is that new?

Seperated at birth? Jill Long Thompson and Art Carney from the Honeymooners?

On a related matter.

By not challenging the Indiana primary election results, Mr. Schellinger missed a once in a lifetime opportunity to highlight the discrepancies of Indiana's electronic voting system. One of the greatest shortcomings of the Direct Record Electronic (DRE) machines that are commonly used in Indiana is their inability to accurately reproduce the stored vote tally as a result of failures of the internal electronic memory cards and the failure rate of the machines as a whole after election day. The demonstrated failure rate of the DRE machines is much larger than the unverified and relatively small margin of victory that Jill Long Thompson received in May.

Even though the results of the contested primary may not have been known until after the general election in November the failure of the DRE machines in general would have done much to move the state to a system with better voting accuracy results. As an example, one would have to pay $150.00 for a single tomato if the same accuracy (0.01 percent vs 1.5 percent) was used to govern the sale of produce by weight.

If a more accurate system was in place during the 2000 or the 2004 general elections our state and country would not be facing the multitude of crises that we face today.