| Our Voting System Sucks |
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| Posted by Joel on 03/05/08 under Complaints, US |
Seriously, it is hard to go through this process. I just did the "Texas Two-Step" (retarted) wherein you have to be registered to a specific local area and go vote. Granted early voting was pretty painless, but it takes some effort to actually go do it. Then yesterday was the caucus. It sucked. Ass. I left the house at 6:50, went to this elementary school, waited until 7:40 for the last person to vote and then had to get in this huge unorganized line where I found out people with kids get to go first (complete bs) and then I signed my name. An hour and a half to sign my freaking name on a sheet of paper. The answer to this problem is obvious (at least in my opinion). Online voting. We can keep track of our finances and buy anything we want online, but we can't vote? Granted DieBold is a piece of shit company that deserves to die (that much money and you still can't get it right? and now everyone thinks paper voting is a better idea? Seriously go to hell DieBold.) Can we just put google in charge of voting and be done with it already? I would vote on every freaking issue if I got an email that said "here's your choices, here's a synopsis from both sides with links--now vote". You want voting to go up, take it online. I realize there are some poor people and some old people that can't deal with computers, but they can vote the old way or go to a library and vote on that computer; this would definitely increase voter participation and decrease the immense pain in the ass that is our current system. |
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