Stupor Tuesday
Twenty-four hours a day I can engage a machine, slip in a card, punch a few numbers, and receive cash and a piece of paper telling me not only how much cash I just received but how much cash is remaining in my checking out (not bloody much, usually, but that’s beside the point).
How is it possible that in 2008 — four decades after we first went to the moon — we still apparently can’t conduct an election in this country using machines that provide both a reliable vote count and a mechanism (ala the ATM receipt) that allows us to verify its reliability?
Whether you’re a members of the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, Socialist or Bull Moose party, this seems to be one issue on which we all should be able to agree: if we don’t know who received the most votes, it’s not an election.
This post was added on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 by Tom Swift at 17:39 and is filed under Soapbox.
"Any idiot can face a crisis. It's day to day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
