Reform urged to shore up voting system | ajc.com
The AJC is running a Washington Post story on the recommendations of a commission headed by Jimmy Carter and James Baker on how to increase public confidence in the American electoral process. You know, like how 'bout a reciept? Or a way to go online and login to my account at the Federal Election Commission and see my vote? Paper balloting is not really the issue, but I haven't seen a paper ballot since 2000. It's these electronic doohickeys that concern us all (well, except for the fine folks at Diebold who actually make the things - heck, they're even offering to store the data for us!)
Some rightist windbag back around the last election was poo-pooing the whole vote confirmation thing because, like, we don't get our reciepts at the ATM or the gas station. But we have the option, yes? And then, when I get home, I can login to the Bank of Whatever site and, like, see all my transactions, yes? See, THAT is why we don't take those reciepts.
Why am I writing like Yakov Smirnov today? In Soviet Russia, candidate votes for you!
Go to blackboxvoting.org for in-depth discussion of this topic.
Some rightist windbag back around the last election was poo-pooing the whole vote confirmation thing because, like, we don't get our reciepts at the ATM or the gas station. But we have the option, yes? And then, when I get home, I can login to the Bank of Whatever site and, like, see all my transactions, yes? See, THAT is why we don't take those reciepts.
Why am I writing like Yakov Smirnov today? In Soviet Russia, candidate votes for you!
Go to blackboxvoting.org for in-depth discussion of this topic.
posted by tay0 at 07:43
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