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And beeing slow is not a bug, it is a feature. A feature that prevents all kinds of things from happening that would undermine trust in the system as a whole.
by btilly 8y ago
And beeing slow is not a bug, it is a feature. A feature that prevents all kinds of things from happening that would undermine trust in the system as a whole.
2004, Bush vs Kerry in Ohio. The voting commissioner was Republican and had promised to deliver Ohio. Without Ohio, Bush would not have won the election.
Heavily Republican precincts were set up so that voting was easy all day.
Heavily Democratic precincts in Cincinnati got so backlogged that they closed the door and people had to be in line for hours to vote.
Bush won the state by 2.1%. He carried Harris County, which includes Cincinnati. No Republican has carried Harris County since.
Now tell me. Does the feature of voting "beeing slow" improve your faith in the fairness of that election?
- MiddleEndian 8y agoThe voting process should be easy and accessible. Counting the votes does not need to be fast.
- jacques_chester 8y agoVoting machines haven't fixed the problem, which is the lack of independent electoral commissions. And they never will. But paper ballots are far less easy to subvert than machine ballots.