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Opus McDopus wrote:
What I find truly sad is that neither the Dems nor the Repubs care one
hoot
about the entire electorate voting. If they did, we wouldn't be
relegated
to a 12 or 14 hour period in which to do so.

There's a reason why the F/F's put it during the day on a Tuesday.
It's a republic, not a democracy, for a reason.

I don't buy that for a second. The Founding Fathers perspective was
entirely different than that of today. And for your information, a Republic
is a form of representative democracy. There are no pure democracies in
existence, that I am aware of. Republican (representative) democracies were
formulated to protect minorities within majorities, again, IIRC.

Why can't someone figure out a way in which to give every registered
voter a
"voter's number", which would be their's for life, no matter where they
might move to. This number could alway be tracked, by the federal
government.

Ummm, the answer to this should be obvious to any of
the resident cynics (not to mention the tin-foil hat crowd).

Please enlighten me? You and I both carry an SSN # everywhere we go (not
physically, necessarily). So, please don't say people wouldn't accept the
government tracking their every move via a government issued number.


Is secure voting really so complicated that some great mind can't come up
with a viable method?

Nah, it's easy as long as you trust a large bureaucratic
untrustworth government to implement it.

Well not that I believe that trust has anything to do with it. Who else
would you propose?

There's easier methods. Vote-by-mail is REALLY nice!

Oh, so its up to the USPS, UPS, FedEx... to secure our voting rights?

Great, no untrustworthy government interaction there, well except for the
USPS. of course.

Op

- Ken