Posted on 11/11/2012 3:34:33 PM PST by CriticalThinking
In a world of real time information why is our voting system so arcane? Why for example are election results held until after all voting is over? We have polls that suggest how we are going to vote, but in the 2012 election we learned that there are D+8 and R+2 models that reflect how many Republicans or Democrats are going to to vote. Why don't we provide the real answer in real time.
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There's actually a better way.
The better way would involve biometrics and P2P technology. A normal person could keep his info and vote preferences on his OWN computer and idiots could keep theirs on some trusted system at a public facility of some sort, possibly a libhrary. A call to tally would work the same way as a request for "You Ain't Nothin But a Hound-Dog" on Kazaa or Bittorrent and, funny thing, ANYBODY could do such a tally and all such tallies should match.
A person would have to produce a valid finger to vote but that sort of device is a $100 add on with government laptops and we could afford it.
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