>"Peter T. Daniels"  wrote in message
>news:8f98d2fe-8d36-4949-ae1b-550282b424d8@o8g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...

>> On Aug 29, 9:49 pm, "Guy Barry" <guy.ba...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>[ballot boxes]
>> > Now you're telling me that they don't exist.

>> In case you haven't noticed, we have been talking about (nonexistent)
>> voter fraud in the US, and the near-universal use of easily
>> corruptible electronic voting machines, i.e., election fraud..

>Indeed you have been.  But there has also been a sub-thread about the
>provision of ballot boxes and other more traditional voting equipment.

>> > On the 15th November this year I shall be going to my local polling
>> > station,
>> > taking a piece of paper, putting an X on it, folding it up and putting
>> > it in
>> > a ballot box.  Someone will then take all the pieces of paper and count
>> > them
>> > manually.  I really couldn't care less what happens in New York or
>> > anywhere
>> > else.

>> Then why are you participating in the conversation?

>Because that's what it's about.

>> Since English elections were not the topic, who cares?

>They are the topic of this particular sub-thread.  I'm not taking part in
>the sub-thread about elections in New York, because I don't know anything
>about elections in New York.  I suggest that if you're not interested in
>British elections, you stay out of this particular sub-thread.

>If you can't tell one sub-thread from another I believe that Google Groups
>offers a "View as Tree" option.  Or you could just try reading the context
>of the post that you're replying to.