Virtually Voting
I've never voted on anything other than electronic voting machines.
I never really thought that much about the security of the systems until the recent stories about Diebold voting machines began coming out. If these reports hold any water at all, then potentially American democracy could soon be doing a Weekend at Bernie's act. The fact that there are now serious questions about the integrity of our latest voting technology should scare the hell out of any thinking American, regardless of their ideological or political bent.
If the new voting systems are truly as vulnerable to manipulation as recent reporting implies, it occurs to me that we need for some brave, selfless individual to mainipulate election results in a very obvious way, and take credit for doing it. (Probably a primary. Doing this in the presidential election could cause all kinds of chaos.) I'm thinking 100% votes for an unlikely candidate. Perhaps 100% votes for Donald Duck as a write-in candidate?
This is a situation with which the public would need to be slapped in the face, to make sure that they could not deny the problem, and that they realized the full implications of it.
I don't know what the laws are like for the kind of public and blatant vote tampering that I'm suggesting, but I would assume that it would be pretty harsh. This would be one hell of an act of civil disobedience. It would also be one of the most patriotic acts that I could imagine.
Just imagine, any hackers or Diebold employees out there, you could be the person who saved American democracy.
5:50:12 PM 
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