When Congress talks of electronic voting they invariably talk about the lousy gadgets inside the voting boots. No Bank would ever allow to use this technology to access a Bank Account. Regardless, our votes are supposed to be both secret and sacred. When the Banks and the whole Financial Industry are fully inside the electronic world why can we not vote in this environment.
I had "fun" last time when voting. When I brought my finger close to the screen the machine decided how I would vote for each of the few main candidates. It was impossible to fix this on the respective vote screen during the first round. I went through the process and returned back from the end to revote. This time around I had no problems as the vote screens obeyed my fingers with no premade decisions. I complained on the spot and also to one party via internet but got no feedback. I have no idea whom I really voted.
I am seriously pondering: Is it worth to waste time to vote when you do not know who gets it?
The rest of the civilized World is moving also towards electronic voting - and for them this means real electronic voting with ID and password - and no toys. Their systems will allow the voters even change their voting until the final deadline - and they can always check how they had voted - one ID one Vote. Computers are marvelous tools.
Perhaps the real resons that we still play with toys remains inside the Congress. This is unreal as with real electronic voting the power of Congress will actually increase. It does not decrease like might happen to the health of bank accounts of many individual favored by the lobbyists.
The lobbyists would get a very short stick and some might even go home and stay there. Remember, that the US Constitution states where the power is: "We the People...". Congress should pay more attention to these three simple words.
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