Electronic voting

If electronic voting is to work well it must be trustworthy. I think the following would accomplish that.
Have the voting machine print the votes of each voter in a standardized and easy to read format. The voter could look at the paper to verify that the vote was correctly recorded.
The votes could be counted by either using the paper to double-check the machines counts or just directly counting the paper votes (like is done for standardized test that use machine readable answer sheets).

As a software engineer I don't trust computers to keep our elections accruate--because there is always the possibility of human tampering.

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2007/04/27/the-case-against-e-voting/

Person to person lending

I just learned about http://www.prosper.com/ -- a website where individuals can loan other money. It looks very compelling. They only facilitate unsecured loans but I wonder why it couldn't be done with secured loans also.