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1. Just as an aside, I wanted to note that there are other cases in which something is constitutionally protected and we just never noticed. The string of privacy/neutrality decisions (like Griswold, Roe, Lawrence, etc.) sure seemed surprising at the time, and lots of people will still claim to find them completely ridiculous. Most of those people will have no idea what the decisions say, but that's another story. So I guess the general idea that the President might have some new power that we didn't know about doesn't strike me as all that crazy. That he should have this new power, the power to do just about anything because there can be no restraint on the Commander-in -Chief, strikes me as insane (for steel seizure reasons, among others).

2. Huh. Follow-up question: what do you do to restore public confidence in voting once suspicion, fuelled by Diebold-inspired concerns, seeps deeply enough into the electorate that it's no longer entirely crazy to wonder if they're even counting the votes at all? Even if, you know, they are?

I don't get the reference at the end of Berube's piece-- a restoration comedy figure who thinks he's funny but never says anything that's actually funny? Who's he thinking of?

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