US Paperless Voting Bill Advances

A couple of weeks back we discussed the effort to require voting paper trails in US federal elections. Now WhiteBoxVoter writes: "Democrats and Republicans in the US House of Representatives agreed today on a compromise that will push through a bill banning paperless voting machines and requiring a voter-verified paper record for every vote in the country, after government sanctioned hackers showed how they could break into all three of the top voting systems used in California." The NYTimes reported on Thursday that even if it passes the House, voting-machine reform that would take effect before the 2008 elections may die in the Senate.

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Re:Why?

[Seumas]

Does it really matter? I don't need an auditable paper trail to prove that most voters are self-serving "what can you do for ME" idiots. People who can't tie their shoes, have no teeth, vote based on what the candidate says about baby jesus or what kind of free government services they'll get out of it, think men used to ride dinosaurs and pronounce cement like it was something that came out of the ocean get the same voting power as the student of politics, history, art, sociology, science, world history and has the capability for abstract thought beyond pondering if they are - indeed - smarter than a fifth grader.

When all is said and done, all we've done is enforced a paper-trail to prove retardedness.

Re:Why?

[Actually, I do RTFA]

his is why democracy is the worst system except all the others, and the one I'd rather try to get to work rather than spew pointless invective upon it.

American democracy is an inferior system to the republic that the US's founders set up, and the parlimentary system that Britain uses. Both have proven superior.