You're right, I didn't know this though I certainly remember the Florida debacle. I'll have to take your word for it.
But at this point it doesn't matter who came up with the idea in the first place. It has been shown by now that they're not impervious to tampering, and considering that the voting process is pretty much the basis of a working democracy, they can't be entrusted with this crucial task.
If you wonder where I am politically, I say libertarian-conservative, or what is sometimes called a "classical" liberal (ie 19th Century variety).
I vote green/moderate left over here. When it comes to US politics I didn't use to bite my nails over whether the democrats or the republicans won, since to the foreign observer their politics didn't seem to differ that much. But at this moment I'm fervently hoping for a change in government, because the current administration have proven to be completely untrustworthy and are right now trying to undermine the constitution step by step. There's too much power collected on one side, it's out of balance.
(Going off on a tangent, I think that this de-facto two-party electoral system is in need of reform so votes that go to a third party aren't automatically lost. The same goes for that system of counting votes by state that disadvantages metropolitan areas which are traditionally more democrat. Yes, I realize the republicans didn't bring forth that injustice, they're just profiting from it. It can't be, though, that it's possible that the party with the highest number of absolute votes might not win because too many of their voters live in the same states. And yet no reform in sight.)
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But at this point it doesn't matter who came up with the idea in the first place. It has been shown by now that they're not impervious to tampering, and considering that the voting process is pretty much the basis of a working democracy, they can't be entrusted with this crucial task.
If you wonder where I am politically, I say libertarian-conservative, or what is sometimes called a "classical" liberal (ie 19th Century variety).
I vote green/moderate left over here. When it comes to US politics I didn't use to bite my nails over whether the democrats or the republicans won, since to the foreign observer their politics didn't seem to differ that much. But at this moment I'm fervently hoping for a change in government, because the current administration have proven to be completely untrustworthy and are right now trying to undermine the constitution step by step. There's too much power collected on one side, it's out of balance.
(Going off on a tangent, I think that this de-facto two-party electoral system is in need of reform so votes that go to a third party aren't automatically lost. The same goes for that system of counting votes by state that disadvantages metropolitan areas which are traditionally more democrat. Yes, I realize the republicans didn't bring forth that injustice, they're just profiting from it. It can't be, though, that it's possible that the party with the highest number of absolute votes might not win because too many of their voters live in the same states. And yet no reform in sight.)