Author: PerfectReignPerfectReign Date: Sep 18, 2008 08:39
Cannabidraake turned on the Etch-A-Sketch and wrote:
> In news:alt.drugs.pot, nowhere@ nobody.com posted on Mon, 15 Sep 2008
> 23:30:42 -0500:
> >> The electoral congress are the electors you vote for when you
>> "vote for president"... they're seldom congressmen/women.
>
> My question is why, in this age of electronics, can we not vote over
> the internet and just get rid of an electoral college whose initial
> usefulness has been superceded by technology?
1. Because a large portion of the population doesn't have intraweb. They
already scream about voter defranchising by requiring them to actually
either mail a ballot (which can be done) or going into a polling place.
2. Because there's not as much a guarantee of anonymity. Supposedly your
vote is secret. (However, we can very much tell who voted for whom in a
given precinct if we wanted to.
> If you're going to have
> fraud on voting machines, why not just let the fraud happen over the
> internet?
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