Saturday, November 04, 2006

Finally, every vote will count . . . or atleast we won't know if it doesn't

Live from ohio, Stewart mocks electronic voting, which is inline with the satiric nature of the show, and yet seems out of line with their previous mockery of 18th century voting procedures that led to such controversy in the 2000 election. The criticism questions changing voting procedures, though the fact that they haven't been tested raises concerns and would have been funny if The Daily Show hadn't already done atleast three segments about the more "complicated" electronic version and the "straightfoward" old fashioned way. Electronic voting joke #7
The NY times published an article in September concerning the possibility of tampering, hacking and disenfranchisement. We won't have to worry about re-counts though; with many of the machines, paper reciepts will not be available. Apparently the way to make recounts unneccessary is to make them impossible.

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