[Newspoetry] In and Out Democracy

[DL Emerick]

ARTICLE:
 
Pamela Smith | A Step Backward for Voting System Transparency
http://www.truthout.org/article/a-step-backward-voting-system-transparency
Pamela Smith for The Verified Voting Foundation: "On June 26, 2008, Senator
Dianne Feinstein (D-California) and Senator Robert Bennett (R-Utah)
introduced the Bipartisan Electronic Voting Reform Act (S. 3212).  The press
release accompanying the introduction of S. 3212 observes, 'the ability to
ensure there is an accurate, reliable and transparent method for Americans
to cast and count votes is fundamental to our democratic process.'
Unfortunately, S.3212 falls far short of ensuring accuracy, reliability, and
transparency in our elections and is likely to do more harm than good."
 
END_ARTICLE.
 
Too lazy for a hand count?
Too impatient for counting?
Doesn't count.
 
Machines can do "it" better.
 
That's how elections amount to nothing but a blip on the screen - the
projected returns are confirmed, but if they don't project "correctly", they
are reviled for being biased against the machines that do the counting.  Ah
the machines - the fabled Daley machine of Chicago is nothing against the
machine that ran the elections (stole them, to be precise) in 2000, 2002,
2004, and even in 2006, when Republican losses were held to a few dozen
seats in a year when they should have lost a few hundred seats.


This is the doctrine that undermines a democracy, that machines have a place
in its life.
 
Sex is not much as a quickie job and neither should an election be a one
night stand.
 
The standards in this proposed law aid and abet the further rape of
democracy.
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