donsrods
Well-known member
I don't want any politics to come into this discussion because the following comments by me have nothing to do with what person you want to run the country.........it is simply about the mechanics of voting.
I feel like I am living in some third world country because of how badly the election sites are operated. I mean, we have been doing this voting thing for over 200 years and we still have these breakdowns and screwups every 4 years !!!!!!
We can put a man on the moon, but we can't seem to build a reliable, simple voting system that allows every American who wants to vote easy and accurate processing of his or her vote. That is amazing considering you can walk into any 7-11 and buy a lottery ticket and immediately your choice is registered and when the balls are picked they know instantly if there were any winners and where that ticket was sold.
I stood in line for two hours today and there were some places where people stood in line longer than that. In addition, way too may scanners jammed up and too many provisional ballots had to be cast........all of which puts a cloud over the accuracy and legitimacy of the election. Here we hold up our Democratic Process as a model of what the rest of the world should do, and we can't even operate a smooth system for our own citizens to vote.
Again, this is NOT about which side is right or wrong, just about the machinery that we have in place to cast our votes. It isn't like we didn't have 4 years since the last election to iron out the bugs, or for that matter, the preceeding 200+ years. End of rant.
Don
I feel like I am living in some third world country because of how badly the election sites are operated. I mean, we have been doing this voting thing for over 200 years and we still have these breakdowns and screwups every 4 years !!!!!!
We can put a man on the moon, but we can't seem to build a reliable, simple voting system that allows every American who wants to vote easy and accurate processing of his or her vote. That is amazing considering you can walk into any 7-11 and buy a lottery ticket and immediately your choice is registered and when the balls are picked they know instantly if there were any winners and where that ticket was sold.I stood in line for two hours today and there were some places where people stood in line longer than that. In addition, way too may scanners jammed up and too many provisional ballots had to be cast........all of which puts a cloud over the accuracy and legitimacy of the election. Here we hold up our Democratic Process as a model of what the rest of the world should do, and we can't even operate a smooth system for our own citizens to vote.
Again, this is NOT about which side is right or wrong, just about the machinery that we have in place to cast our votes. It isn't like we didn't have 4 years since the last election to iron out the bugs, or for that matter, the preceeding 200+ years. End of rant.
Don
