Actually you do not violate any laws while driving, you only violate statutes. If you declared yourself a Sovereign(sp?) Citizen (atleast in the US) you can legally drive at as fast as you want on the freeways as long as your not endangering any one else.
It's amazing how many rights we have willingly given up in this little old country.
Who says that have to manually stuff the ballot boxes. All you have to do is get a few of the counters to miscount in your favor. In the case of anonymous voting(which is just a bad idea), its all the easier because if they want to go back and check the votes all you have to do is give them a bunch of ballots that say exactly what you told them. You would have had quite a bit of time to actually do the manual stuff at that point.
Voting done by computers wouldn't be as easy to crack as you seem to make it out to be. Sure you could write a virus to hack every computer in the United States, but I think someone would catch on eventually. You also couldn't do it all from one computer because it would look quite suspicious if 10000 - 100000 votes all came from the same IP address. You could try to put it out onto multiple computers but you still have the problem of alot of votes coming from a group of the same IP's that could probably be tracked back to the person doing it.
Even if someone did manage to hack into all those computers and got away with it, I don't think that it would be much worse than what we're currently experiencing in voting cheating. But I'm pretty much a cynic about politics altogether.
There have been plenty of elections that the electoral college has gone against the popular vote. In Many states the all the votes from the electoral college goes for the candidate that got the most votes in the state. That way if a candidate gets 51% in alot of the large states he gets a whole mess of electoral votes. If his opponent happens to gett 100% in all the other states he should have won, But with the current system he would have lost because although he got a majority in popular votes he lost in the electoral college.
I'm not saying the electoral college should be completely eliminated but there are some definate problems with the current system.
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Actually you do not violate any laws while driving, you only violate statutes. If you declared yourself a Sovereign(sp?) Citizen (atleast in the US) you can legally drive at as fast as you want on the freeways as long as your not endangering any one else.
It's amazing how many rights we have willingly given up in this little old country.
Who says that have to manually stuff the ballot boxes. All you have to do is get a few of the counters to miscount in your favor. In the case of anonymous voting(which is just a bad idea), its all the easier because if they want to go back and check the votes all you have to do is give them a bunch of ballots that say exactly what you told them. You would have had quite a bit of time to actually do the manual stuff at that point.
Voting done by computers wouldn't be as easy to crack as you seem to make it out to be. Sure you could write a virus to hack every computer in the United States, but I think someone would catch on eventually. You also couldn't do it all from one computer because it would look quite suspicious if 10000 - 100000 votes all came from the same IP address. You could try to put it out onto multiple computers but you still have the problem of alot of votes coming from a group of the same IP's that could probably be tracked back to the person doing it.
Even if someone did manage to hack into all those computers and got away with it, I don't think that it would be much worse than what we're currently experiencing in voting cheating. But I'm pretty much a cynic about politics altogether.
There have been plenty of elections that the electoral college has gone against the popular vote. In Many states the all the votes from the electoral college goes for the candidate that got the most votes in the state. That way if a candidate gets 51% in alot of the large states he gets a whole mess of electoral votes. If his opponent happens to gett 100% in all the other states he should have won, But with the current system he would have lost because although he got a majority in popular votes he lost in the electoral college.
I'm not saying the electoral college should be completely eliminated but there are some definate problems with the current system.