Many of us have a worrying doubt about the honesty of the last couple of elections. Who doesn't wonder how this world would look if it was Al up there rather than Junior. For sure there would be a lot less dead and injured people.
But don't get comfortable that the next election will fix all this. Be more scared that the next election will once again be 'fixed'. If we don't pay attention now, our democracy might disappear without even a whimper and our right to have our votes counted accurately, or even counted at all, is on the verge of quietly being taken away from us.
Our own San Diego Board of Supervisors, in spite of being educated by huge amounts of documentation and a Princeton study on the Diebold voting machines, has opted to spend $31 million of tax payers money on these machines. These machines are also much more costly than alternate means. We will just have to TRUST that the person announced as the winner of an election is the person who really did get the most votes. I don't find much comfort in that thought!
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