Open the pod bay doors, HAL
The other day, my 18-year-old son, Alex, and I were talking about electronic voting machines, which apparently can be hacked by any high school dropout with a part-time job at Radio Shack, thus leaving one's faith in the integrity of the electoral process shaken.
Alex hunched over, and spoke in a grouchy old-man voice: "Eh. You kids today with your fancy election machines! In my day, we just put our mark on a piece of tree bark and turned it into the guy with nice loincloth!''
I like computers, but I know they can screw up all by themselves. I tried to sign up for my health benefits last week and the computer believed me to be an 87-year-old Albanian immigrant with beri-beri. So there are still a few bugs in the system.
The upside, of course, is that when it comes to the New Jersey Senate race , it almost doesn't matter who you vote for: New Jersey's own Boss Tweed or the good-looking Daddy's boy lapdog. Maybe just this once we should let the guy at the 7-11 do a "Quick Pick'' random vote for either one.
Alex hunched over, and spoke in a grouchy old-man voice: "Eh. You kids today with your fancy election machines! In my day, we just put our mark on a piece of tree bark and turned it into the guy with nice loincloth!''
I like computers, but I know they can screw up all by themselves. I tried to sign up for my health benefits last week and the computer believed me to be an 87-year-old Albanian immigrant with beri-beri. So there are still a few bugs in the system.
The upside, of course, is that when it comes to the New Jersey Senate race , it almost doesn't matter who you vote for: New Jersey's own Boss Tweed or the good-looking Daddy's boy lapdog. Maybe just this once we should let the guy at the 7-11 do a "Quick Pick'' random vote for either one.
posted by Michael Riley at 12:02 PM
1 Comments:
yeah, the guy at 7-11 is probably a foreigner (hopefully not illegal), just like the Venezuelan e-voting machine contractors scheduled to "oversee" any technical probs...only in America will you see foreign nationals in charge of our voting process..we can't even manufacture or tech support or contract with American businesses during our most-American civic duty/privilege-voting in a democratic , free society!
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