Voting

Well this year is shaping up to be a season for the history books. An election that both sides are trying to gain the a majority or keep said a majority in Congress. But you have to wonder what were they thinking. When the electronic voting booths started to be sold. This issue is not new. It was known from the beginning. Private companies that are not going to give up proprietary codes. Even for verification of making sure that the counts were accurate.

What kind of stupidity is this? Did everyone leave their brains at the door? Yes, we all wanted to upgrade the Voting Booths. Especially in the wake of Florida and the infamous hanging chads BS. I guess the thinking is that by some miracle the issue with proprietary codes would be resolved.

And the sky rains gumdrops out of candy cotton clouds. The last I knew there is no candy cotton clouds nor does it rain gumdrops. We are still stuck with a problem that no one took the time to find a better solution for this issue.

But now the hard part. It was mandated in most areas and most counties were told flat they had to upgrade to the electronic voting booths in spite of these issues. So now both parties are going to scream the day after elections. One or even both of the major parties, a lot of third party, and independent candidates are going to question the validity of the votes counted.
With the issue of proprietary codes add to the the fact these codes are owned by foreign companies. Gentile Reader, I don't know about you, but I am afraid.

Afraid not who will ultimately will be gain a majority in Congress. Not even afraid of how close an election will be in these races. My fear is comes from trusting a company that has no real oversight telling the American public that their machines are accurate and that we must trust them.

Trust them? Why? What good reason should we? They wouldn't even come on Lou Dobbs show for crying out loud. Nothing to reassure the public that they are professionals and that all safeguards are in place to assure a fair elections. Safeguards? oh one company employees will be on hand if help is needed. Fair elections not even as we define it. Nothing. Just a lot of questions with no real answers. Just the assurance that their machines when used properly will yield proper results concerning elections.

Is that a good enough reason? Assurances with no way to verify or even check on their machines? Machines shown that a determined hacker can, and most likely will hack in, to move a vote in a certain direction. And worse can not even be traced or detected on some these monstrosities?

Was, or is there, an alternative solution? I sure hope that there is one out there. Because we as a people are in trouble if there is not one..