Sometime this week I will vote in the general election. What's that you say? The election isn't until November 2. Yes, but like a majority of Californians, I am a permanent vote-by-mail voter.
The June primary saw 57% vote by mail. Over 6 million are registered as permanent voters this way. Why has this happened? Because of all the nonsense that has gone on since the 2000 election. Touchscreens were thrown out of California & other states because of problems. Like clicking on one candidates name, & it picking the one next to it. The ability to hack the machines. Glitches like one in Ohio this year, where the machines simply stopped working.
And, of course, the CEO of Diebold, which has since changed it's name, saying he wanted to deliver states to George Bush. Ooops. So in this case, technology failed badly. So back to paper ballots. Although many foreign countries are using these discredited machines. Internet voting will never happen for the same reason. They use it in Switzerland, where they get passwords through the mail. Estonia uses a half-assed system. A national identity card with a chip that gets you to the online ballot. but you can only use it on the official advanced voting day. Otherwise you have to go to a polling station on election day. That's kind of odd.
I would like to see a more modern system, but obviously we tried, but it didn't work. Computers can have glitches. the makers of these devices clearly didn't watch closely enough to make sure they were totally secure, & hackers are always out there, along with dishonest people.
The June primary saw 57% vote by mail. Over 6 million are registered as permanent voters this way. Why has this happened? Because of all the nonsense that has gone on since the 2000 election. Touchscreens were thrown out of California & other states because of problems. Like clicking on one candidates name, & it picking the one next to it. The ability to hack the machines. Glitches like one in Ohio this year, where the machines simply stopped working.
And, of course, the CEO of Diebold, which has since changed it's name, saying he wanted to deliver states to George Bush. Ooops. So in this case, technology failed badly. So back to paper ballots. Although many foreign countries are using these discredited machines. Internet voting will never happen for the same reason. They use it in Switzerland, where they get passwords through the mail. Estonia uses a half-assed system. A national identity card with a chip that gets you to the online ballot. but you can only use it on the official advanced voting day. Otherwise you have to go to a polling station on election day. That's kind of odd.
I would like to see a more modern system, but obviously we tried, but it didn't work. Computers can have glitches. the makers of these devices clearly didn't watch closely enough to make sure they were totally secure, & hackers are always out there, along with dishonest people.
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