Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, blogs today on Electronic Voting. Here’s just one of the money quotes…
I think about the history of ATMs when I hear all the nervous Nellies wetting their pants over electronic voting machines. I believe those worries are totally misplaced. Now don’t get me wrong ““ there’s a 100% chance that the voting machines will get hacked and all future elections will be rigged. But that doesn’t mean we’ll get a worse government. It probably means that the choice of the next American president will be taken out of the hands of deep-pocket, autofellating, corporate shitbags and put it into the hands of some teenager in Finland. How is that not an improvement?
“Now don’t get me wrong ““ there’s a 100% chance that the voting machines will get hacked and all future elections will be rigged. But that doesn’t mean we’ll get a worse government.”
Correct. But it does mean we’ll get a government that was not elected via the Democratic process. And last I checked, America is still a Democracy where every vote is supposed to count.
Mr. Adams does not have a serious bone in his body. He knows all of the issues but he does not care. He is apolitical.
Brad, thank you, I needed to laugh. Everyone is so serious all the time, this was a nice little break from it.
For non-apolitical snark click here
#1…I would argue that we haven’t had the people elect the government since 2000. That was the point our election were put into the hands of lawyers, wealthy corporate donors and partisan Supreme Justices.
The point I would disagree on is that chances are good it won’t be a teenager hacking the election. It would be those same “shitbags” that have taken over in the past.
problem is the machines won’t be hacked by some ‘teenager from Finland’