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October 22, 2004
Make Every Properly Cast Vote Count
Dangerous Dan makes a point I agree with:
I’ve made the point several times that the electorate’s confidence in the overall elections process is paramount. Nobody, though, is going to trust a bunch of potentially hackable 1’s and 0’s in a close election. You’ve GOT to have a paper trail. It’s only a matter of time before the lack of one is going to turn into a huge scandal and then everyone will be asking why such an obvious measure was taken in the first place. And it will a darn good question to ask.
That is very obvious and no more difficult to create than a bank ATM receipt.
You would think that both sides would want to make sure every properly cast ballot was counted and that they would want the person with the most properly casts votes to win, but that is not so. From this quote in a recent John Goldberg column about voter responsibility it seems not every one is interested in making sure that who people vote for even matters:
"You heard it right here," Holder responded coldly. "If every vote is allowed to be cast and every vote is counted, John Kerry will be president." That means it is irrelevant who people actually vote for. It is assumed they voted for Kerry until proven otherwise.
Maybe some years it will be Republicans acting this dirty, but this year it is Democrats who seem not to care how they win as long as they win the Presidency. I hope that whoever wins, wins by a wide margin so we do not have another Florida 2000 or that whoever loses if it is close has as much class as Nixon and accepts it. Unfortunately, I doubt Kerry has as much class as Nixon.
Posted by Pete at October 22, 2004 08:43 AM
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