You know that old "wave-particle" dual nature of light? It applies to the current voting atmosphere. Votes are 'waves' - little eddies of electrons wandering around in the ether like lost children on a dark camping trip ... or else they're 'particles': solid mass defined by a voting ballot.
NYT article title: "Can You Count on Voting Machines?" Hell, no. Whomever thought electronic ballots were a good idea should be taken out and shot.
http://www.nytimes.com/20d08/01/06/magazine/06Vote-t.html?ex=1357275600&en=75d7f13230335c06&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Paper, baby, paper. And I mean only paper. The only guarantor of democracy is free and fair - and accurate - elections. Who cares if the votes are counted by midnight, if they're counted wrong? I'll happily wait a week or two to find out who truly won. Afterall, I will have had to put up with 18 months of this happy horse-shit at that point. A two week vote-count would at least give me a 2-week break between "vote for me" and "the winner sucks" media stories.
Go vote.
Europa Clipper
2 days ago
1 comment:
I agree. Anything that leaves a paper trail has got to be better than having votes evaporate into cyberspace. I do not believe electronics, computers, etc. are better nor do they make life easier. If anything, dealing with computer problems only makes life more frustrating!
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