2006-10-24 15:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
digitaldiscipline
digitaldisciplineTwo weeks out, and the electronic voting machines are already fucking over the Democratic candidates in my old district (in VA).
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/24/111047/27
What Trapper John didn't comment on, but I'm going to, is this tidbit: "Alexandria Registrar Tom Parkins is later quoted as saying that 'this is not the kind of problem that has either shaken our confidence in the system overall or that of the vote. There have been far worse problems around the country . . .'"
Read that again. "There have been far worse problems [than omitting the candidate's last name] around the country."
I weep for the electoral process, and how big a black box it has become.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/24/111047/27
What Trapper John didn't comment on, but I'm going to, is this tidbit: "Alexandria Registrar Tom Parkins is later quoted as saying that 'this is not the kind of problem that has either shaken our confidence in the system overall or that of the vote. There have been far worse problems around the country . . .'"
Read that again. "There have been far worse problems [than omitting the candidate's last name] around the country."
I weep for the electoral process, and how big a black box it has become.
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