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Senators Introduce Bill That Would Require State and Local Governments To Use Paper Ballots in an Effort To Secure Elections (cnet.com)
From a report: On Tuesday, nine Senators introduced a bill that would require state and local governments to use paper ballots in an effort to secure elections from hackers. The bill would also require rigorous audits for all federal elections to ensure that results match the votes. "Leaving the fate of America's democracy up to hackable election machines is like leaving your front door open, unlocked and putting up a sign that says 'out of town,'" Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, said in a release. "Any failure to secure our elections amounts to disenfranchising American voters." The Protecting American Votes and Elections Act of 2018 was drafted amid intense scrutiny of voting systems ahead of the mid-term elections in November. Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has elevated concern over the security of the country's voting systems. The senators said rigorous audits will ensure votes are legitimate. Currently, 22 states don't require post-election audits, according to the release.
Too much democracy is bad. Were it not, we would have referendums on every single thing. The reason we do not is we trust our elected representatives to decide on those things for us.
It's the same with the Electoral College. We elect representatives that pick the President for us. You may think that's too little democracy, but the point against that view is that the country has been quite successful with the Constitution as it is so it may well be at the sweet spot.
Come back and tell us that when your candidate loses.
Regardless, the political landscape is such that a candidate receiving millions of votes less than another, can win the election.
That's so fucking broken, that it takes an idiot to defend it. Unless there is a National Socialist candidate winning with a majority of the votes, and the country is looking at a repeat of 1930's Germany, the system should be worked so that the winner of a normal election by votes generally wins the electoral college.
And that's the real issue. The EC was not set up for the computer age, when it could be gamed.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
*sighs* This again? Look, you can't change the rules just because you didn't like the outcome of the election. You lost, get over it. It's done and the electoral college isn't going anywhere.
so go get some therapy and deal with it.
I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.