We Surrendered Paper Ballots and #2 Pencils

[longknife]

An interesting read @
Jon Christian Ryter's Conservative World about how we've allowed our elections to be rigged:

exerpt

The paper ballot and the #2 pencil is what kept elections honest. Without them, history will likely confirm that George W. Bush was the last conservative president to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC—and he almost didn't make it in 2000. It might shock you to know this, but in 2008 Sen. John McCain won the presidential election but lost the White House. In 2012 Gov. Mitt Romney won the presidential election but lost the White House.

Amazing how even so-called conservative presidents allowed this to happen. Can it ever be fixed?

 

[Mad Scientist]

Americans care more about the Steroid Scandal in Baseball than their own Electoral Process.

 

[theHawk]

There should be a constitutional amendment to forbid electronic only ballots.

 

[AceRothstein]

People actually believe the bullshit in that article?

 

[TheOldSchool]

People actually believe the bullshit in that article?

Lol! I guess they do.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

It's called confirmation bias.

People tend to believe things that make them feel better, and confirm prior prejudices.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

If I had to design a perfectly fair election system, it would go like this:

You divide voters into groups of 100 as they walk in.

1) You hand-write in print (a sheet is provided to show you the nominees) the name of each person you want onto a simple ballot, one line per nominee.

2) Each ballot has a SERIAL NUMBER, which contains an extra small piece of paper with a copy of that Serial number.

3) After you've written your vote in, you hold onto your small copy of the serial number and you throw your ballot into a large transparent jar.

4) Once all 100 people in the group have voted, they all go into a nearby chamber, an election official picks each ballot out of the jar, one-by one, reads the SERIAL NUMBER ONLY, then counts each vote on the ballot; any voter may dissent if this vote is not counted correctly.

5) Once everyone is content, they leave the chamber with the total tally and add it to the overall tally in full display of the public.

6) Slow, but undeniably flawless. You'd need to have an "Election Week" for this process, that concluded on Tuesday. Anyone who is on line before midnight, but cannot stay the duration for that "final" day is given a certificate the return some other day (after Election day) to continue the process, until everyone has been counted.

7) A law would have to be in place that protects EVERYONE from being fired on the day they voted, and/or on the day they need to return to vote if an extension of time is needed.

 

[JoeB131]

An interesting read @
Jon Christian Ryter's Conservative World about how we've allowed our elections to be rigged:

exerpt

The paper ballot and the #2 pencil is what kept elections honest. Without them, history will likely confirm that George W. Bush was the last conservative president to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC—and he almost didn't make it in 2000. It might shock you to know this, but in 2008 Sen. John McCain won the presidential election but lost the White House. In 2012 Gov. Mitt Romney won the presidential election but lost the White House.

Amazing how even so-called conservative presidents allowed this to happen. Can it ever be fixed?

How is the weather in the alternate universe.

Bush lost in 2000. McCain lost in 2008. Romney lost in 2012.

Because they were shitty candidates.

It's really just that simple.

The GOP became the party of the guy who lays you off... that's why it loses elections.