Re "Rolling Down the Highway, Looking Out for Flawed Elections," by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, Aug. 8): The manipulation of electronic devices is at such a high level that it seems that as soon as a new foolproof system is devised, someone (maybe a teenager) finds a way to crack it.
Kids sit for hours doing scales or the formal, repetitive exercises devised by someone called Hanon; they don't improvise or invent.
Eggsy aside, the lower orders are feckless louts, while the look and the sound of their posh counterparts seem to have been devised by someone leafing through a copy of the Tatler from 1983.
The tax code, as Mr. Edwards noted, is riddled with discriminatory loopholes, the most prominent of them seemingly devised by someone who played "The Game of Life" when he was a child.
"Domenech had come into the 2006 World Cup with a masterplan that quickly looked more like a botched strategy devised by someone who didn't master much, least of all his own players," wrote Philippe Auclair of L'Equipe in his biography of Thierry Henry, Lonely at the Top.
In this age of supersonic jets and satellite positioning systems, couldn't someone devise a dashboard turntable?
"If someone could devise a clever way of combining that with the younger generation, there could be a powerful movement".
In an attempt to create a policy that the whole EU can support, the Cologne summit is to pick someone to devise and coordinate it.
I have to believe that if the marketplace incentives were such that over time someone could devise a product that would give the same satisfaction as tobacco but didn't kill them, people would flock to it".
Nor is it a big deal, while New Yorkers wait for so-called smart cards to advance beyond the experimental stage, for someone to devise a box for old MetroCards that doesn't have a porous bottom that sends them spilling across the subway station floor.
