The Sorry Sorry State of Voting Systems In Our Country

   I've made mention of this in the past, but due to the impending presidential election, there has been a lot of press lately about certification (and more troubling, de-certification) of various voting machines, manufacturers, etc.

   This is embarrassing, in my humble opinion. We are a country that sends election observers to emerging nations to aid them in ensuring their elections go off smoothly and are above-board, yet we have (sometimes blatantly) partisan politicians as our states' Secretaries of State, presiding over both the certification of voting technology and the actual vote counting process. This needs to change. While I am by no means a proponent of increased federal government, something needs to be done to homogenize the voting process in this country. It is pitiful that a nation as great as ours cannot advance technology in such a way as to instill enough confidence in an automated balloting system of some sort. Instead, American voters have made it clear to their elected officials that, on the whole, they trust hand-punched ballots more than any other method of vote collection. This is pathetic.

   I may be finally at the point where I get off my lazy ass and finally try to push some of my ideas about how to change this forward. I'll keep you posted.