Voting into a black box into which all votes are cast to never be seen again in the original format reveals that we have painted ourselves into a very difficult corner. A corner that because of the provisions of the Help America Vote Act, and because of HAVA’s totalitarian offspring the Elections Assistance Commission, leaves very little room and time to maneuver.
[Arguing the relative merits of computer based voting has reached the point of absurdity.] Anyone with at least a double digit IQ intuitively understands the fatally flawed rationale in the decision that forced us to vote into a magical black box. It is time, it is well past time to stop arguing the obvious. It is time to direct the limited forces of the grassroots directly at the Queen Bee. As long as the Help America Vote Act is law, as long as the Election Assistance Commission has authority, then the Queen Bee that they represent will continue to spawn worker drones in the form of compromised bureaucrats, lobbyists for manufacturers of computer based voting machines, and other subterranean types that work in unison to destroy Americas fundamental underpinnings. And they do such for their own selfish short term profit.
It is important to appreciate that the flaw in the system is believing that computer based voting can ever be compatible with the guiding star of voting transparency. The voting process should be one that the average literate English speaking American voter can understand from beginning to end. The inner workings of computer based voting is no more understandable to the average American, that is quantum physics or brain surgery. Even rocket surgeons are sometimes unsure of how to interact with the “simplified” computer voting systems. Voting via computer, via US postal, or via any method that does not permit for over all transparency, chain of custody, traceability, verification, validation, tabulation by an average American is a process that will destroy voter confidence and will render the process invalid.
Bottom line…Don’t fear the machines because they are flawed, their flaws produce a circumstance of involuntary transparency. They produce so many mistakes that we are forced to investigate why and to what degree. The reason to fear the computer based voting machines is that at some point in the future they will work to a degree of accuracy that no practical logical argument will be able to defeat. It is at that moment in time where beginning to end voting transparency has disappeared forever, and it is at that point in time where you could mark your calendar as the end of original intent American democracy.
If you don’t want the magic that is America to end, and end far sooner than any of us would like, then it is time to let them (your elected officials) know in no uncertain terms that voting via any computer based system is unacceptable, intolerable, and career ending for those politicians that lack the intelligence and wisdom to fix the system.
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