(Then they fight you...) An Electoral System You Can Count On

[Wilms]

The piece is written by an unabashedly right-winger. However, rather than dismissing the vulnerability of Election Management Systems, he offers (in considerable detail) an approach to secure them, if only to put an end to "left-wing political rants, boorish allegations and attempts to undermine the legitimacy of Republican office holders".

I don't care for his overall proposed method (though he did offer a few interesting ideas), but a right-winger addressing "Election Fraud" is new to me.





Article: Commentary/Opinion*

An Electoral System You Can Count On

By Gary Krasner (01/12/06)

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Politically, it would be an uphill battle to implement my system. State and local election officials want to control "their" turf.

Democrats (in the majority) in large cities will suddenly become stalwart states rights' advocates. Their comrades on the far left have already become complete Luddites on this issue. Since 2001, they've become obsessed over alleged voting fraud. They've donned their tin-foil hats and won't listen to any proposals that involve computers. They see Republican conspiracies and black helicopters everywhere. (They actually believe Senator Paul Wellstone was assassinated by President Bush.) Their only solution is to use paper ballots.

But a return to the Middle Ages isn't a solution. Today, we place our very lives in the hands of computers. Computers are not only used to design planes, trains, automobiles, office towers, and nuclear power plants, they operate them as well. Commerce and banking are all computerized. System security, redundancy checks and backup provisions assure near perfect performance and reliability. When computers fail, others take over. Computers have improved our way of life, and they're the only means to resolve the problems which—commissions that have studied the problem have found—are inherent with paper-based ballots.

So it would be foolish to allow left-wing paranoia and distrust of Republicans in power to sway us from using a rational system that holds a cornucopia of advantages. As a side benefit, under my system, left-wing political rants, boorish allegations and attempts to undermine the legitimacy of Republican office holders would come to a crashing end.


*Ed: Views are those of individual authors and not necessarily those of American Daily.

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http://www.americandaily.com/article/11197

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