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If Canada to our North, Great Britain, our ally in Iraq, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Iraq (yes, Iraq), Iran (yes, Iran), Georgia, Russia, the Ukraine, and several other old, as well as emerging or recently new democracies, have elections with paper ballots which are marked with a pen, folded, placed in a locked transparent ballot box, taken to a central counting place under visual and video camera security, where they are unlocked in front of cameras, then emptied out onto tables, where they are sorted by VOLUNTEERS into piles, and then counted and tallied, and the results are known before the next morning, except in the case of close or disputed results, where the ballots can be re-counted, why can't we do the same thing here?Are we all utterly stupid, or do we just not care about making sure our votes are recorded and counted properly? Or do we just like handing taxpayer money out to corporations who are unaccountable, corrupt, and utterly incompetent, and where we cannot be certain that we will have our votes recorded properly, counted properly, or even if we will be able to vote, due to malfunctions of the machines on polling day, and where the machines themselves can be easily broken into and the results tampered with, all with no audit or paper tally to double check, in the case of a dispute?
Have we really become the first technological
'Banana Republic' in history?
