Dark (Democratic) Days.
by Chris on Mar.29, 2006, under Media and Rants
Ahh, politics. I love the smell of…
Shit.
It would appear, from the news at least, that checking a voting machine can result in a $40,000 “repair” charge regardless of any actual damage to the machine itself.
There’s a trend in the modern electoral machine in the Unites States towards greater automation. What there is not is a trend towards correspondingly greater accountability. He who counts the votes, &c.
I just find myself wishing that there would be some sense of actual interest on the part of the public at large, but what there is, instead, is a whole big steaming pile of apathy. Hell,it’s contagious — I had a hard time motivating myself to rant about it, and I can tell from the pace of the text above that I’m really just phoning it in.
So what’s the solution?
March 30th, 2006 on 10:32 pm
Yeah, the electronic voting thing is pretty creepy. I honestly can’t think why anyone could think that the setup that seems to be being put in place is a good idea.
April 3rd, 2006 on 9:27 am
I suppose that’s the point: nobody’s seeing it as a good idea but nobody really cares. You cannot really be surprised though, given how the current government
a) came into power &
b) managed to have the populace keep it there
It doesn’t really do much good to pull your hair out over this setup, since whatever reality show happens to be on top now will easily outshine the most convincing rhetoric.
April 3rd, 2006 on 10:48 am
Damn it… Stop being correct. It’s not helping to motivate me.