So we got our own little Florida 2000 going on right here in the Evergreen state. Sweet! Will Rossi's charm prevail or is Gregoire's stranglehold on a few liberal counties enough to grab the state?
Time will tell, but one thing remains obvious: American ballot counting methods are woefully low tech. This isn't the Third World. The government has the money and technological capabilities to streamline a consistent system for counting votes that everyone can agree on.
If a 10-year-old can download Jessica Simpson on her watch, the federal government can find a clear cut way to count votes.
Why is it one county uses punch cards and another county favors something different? Why isn't consistent efficiency a value of the voting process? Americans should feel confident that when they vote, the government knows
what its doing across county and even state lines.
But we don't and so we trudge ahead with imminent discrepencies laying on the horizon, fueling the possibility for further scandal and disillusionment. We haven't learned our lesson, and we may be doomed to repeat it.
When it comes to voting, the whole process is counterintuitive. There's got to be a better way to get clear-cut results. I'd like to see some agency step in and establish one concrete method with a paper trail so everybody can feel like our votes are being handled responsibly.
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