Machine voting has to have bullet-proof audit controls, that is for sure. To that end, I am pleased to report that the machines here have had printed record tapes added to them recently so that the voter can eye-ball his selections as having been properly recorded on paper prior to submitting with the last button push. So, that is good.
I really think the whole computer voting thing is a tad over-blown, though. A lot of noise and motion which distracts from a much more intractable issue.
The real problem is that the mind-controlling media and government seem to have fused.
What has evolved is a population under near total mind control by the Media and a government much more frightened by that Media than the cowed, zombieized voters it works for.
Take the war issue. We have a pro-Israel Media, a pro-Israel administration, a pro-Israel congress, and the two pro-Israel major parties. Some choices. Going back to paper ballots won't help here. A peep out of anyone to the contrary and in an instant the word "anti-Semite" is used like a cluster bomb to cut down the opposition.
But war is really only money and blood. We can eventually recover from that, even recovering some of our national honor if given enough time. The real problem ultimately is immigration. If it is permitted to continue at the present level, we cease to exist as a nation, period, replaced by something else. Poll after poll shows that as many as 85% of the voting public, instinctively driven by a vestige of their good sense, wants immigration to be severely curtailed. Again, essentially the same gang mentioned above ignores the public or insults it with lame gestures. It then slanders anyone who dares to speak or lead against these policies, leaving meager choices for the voter. Paper ballots won't fix this either.
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