A quick guerrilla post to keep at least a little activity here for the next few days. I can't wait to finish my disseration. It's turning into a real crapshoot, but fuck it. I can attone for it later when I hack it up for publication.
I urge everyone to read about how absolutely horrible electronic voting is turning out to be. The concept still works, but the current implementations in this country are rot, pure plain and simple. The machines don't work, they miscount votes, they allow no oversight and absolutely no way at all to recount what happened on election day (which would be easy to remedy if the machine printed the vote on a piece of paper that went into a lockbox.
Electronic voting has huge potential if done right, but that isn't what we see right now. If anyone who reads this blog (both of you!) discovers that your precinct is going to be using these machines, you really ought to organize against it and find a way to use a paper ballot. The machines just are not ready, and we are going to see problems come the next election, I almost guarantee it. If the election is close, each side will complain that it should have gone their way, and if its a blowout, they'll complain that something went drastically wrong. Doesn't really matter what you do though, because there isn't going to be any way to check it out.
Do we really want another four years under a president that received less than half the votes cast? (Yeah I know that could happen even if all votes were perfectly counted, but its less likely without polling problems.)
And just for kicks, here is a nicely written article looking at the Zapruder film and modern society. It draws our attention to the little things that make things happen, collapsing the state vector every physical instant to create the universe we live in, yet could have happened in so many other ways.
Got something to say about this? Go toss off about it.
Posted by Nutrimentia at November 22, 2003 09:03 PM | TrackBack