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Originally Posted by Dr.Butler
And yet, you do almost EVERYTHING else by computer. Even drive your car. But sure, lets go back to paper. The sad and funny part, is even when its done by computer, its backed up by paper. And when recount is done, they count the PAPER. AND EVEN THEN, people still claim the count was wrong.
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Heck. Why vote at all?
(Tongue only partly in cheek...) Why not pick our President, Senators, Representatives, Governors....right down to dogcatchers, the way we pick our juries? Each jurisdiction keeps a list of eligible, qualified people for whatever position is being filled, and when "election" day arrives, the name to fill each position is chosen randomly from the list of qualified persons for that position? If picked, you must serve ONE term for the office picked. Oh we can dress it up a little; if you're chosen to be a U.S. Senator, representative or whatever, housing for you and your family along with a guarantee that when your term is up your previous job is yours along with all promotions you could have expected to have gotten during your term, a modest pension upon retirement (tax-free, of course), things like that.
Such a system does three things. It takes the politics out of filling the office(s), it makes political money spent irrelevant, and it assures that only QUALIFIED people fill the positions.
I challenge anyone to tell me how such a system could have a worse result than what we have right now.