I want to encourage everyone to get their up-to-the-minute election results next week at World magazine’s website. No one — and I do mean no one — will have more complete, state-of-the-art results, and TheVanguard.Org will be sponsoring the effort in conjunction with World.

As you probably know, World is the fourth-largest-circulation newsweekly in America, a distinctly Christian publication, and its founder (Joel Belz) and editor-in-chief (Marvin Olasky) are TheVanguard.Org board members. This will be our first major online collaboration, with quite a few more interesting things to come.

For those who doggedly insist that electronic voting machines “can’t be hacked”, Tennessee is about to prove them wrong. Twelve smartcards have already gone “missing”, Drudge reports; each could be used to stuff electronic ballot boxes virtually without limit.

While certainly not perfect, paper ballots are the only way to have an honest election, period. TheVanguard.Org works tirelessly for honest elections, and this is one of the most basic, most essential prerequisites. There’s simply no room for compromise.