to the people who didn’t vote because it would have taken too long or been too inconvenient:
Yeah, you’re right. It really would be much more convenient to live in a dictatorship.
Confidential…
to the people who didn’t vote because it would have taken too long or been too inconvenient:
Yeah, you’re right. It really would be much more convenient to live in a dictatorship.
Not that it really would have mattered anyway, I lost faith in the election system when states began giving Diebold no-compete contracts.
Do some research into Diebold sometime, if you haven’t already. Democracy is now a trade secret, and so help you if you expose a flaw in the system that might (gasp!) allow someone to fix an election.
Well, one consolation is that it didn’t help the Republicans keep control of the House.
I do agree, though — giving control of the voting machines to a company whose president promised to deliver Ohio to Bush is a flagrant violation of the public trust.
Allow me to broaden that to better fit the way I feel:
giving control of the voting machines to a for-profit company is a flagrant violation of the public trust.
I feel that the voting process should not be subject to trade secrets, non-disclosure agreements, or corporate profiteering. I feel that being sued for disclosing secrets about how Diebold’s voting machines actually work is wrong. I feel that an election that leaves no papertrail is absolutely reprehensible and outrageous.
I no longer feel that there is any integrity in the election process anywhere.
Can’t argue there. I still vote, though. I don’t know what else I can do.
(I don’t think our voting machines are Diebold, for what it’s worth, though they are electronic touch-screen ones…)
Probably not (yet) but I haven’t seen a single electronic voting system in widespread use that produces a verifiable paper trail like the old style “make the lights flash” voting machine.
“Freedom of Thought is what you have
Freedom from Thought is what you want!”
– Devo