People should abstain from
voting rather than vote badly.
Sandy King, of Telescope Inc., the Los Angeles company that manages American Idol
voting, told the magazine Broadcast and Cable that votes dialed at regular intervals indicate that the votes might have been machine-dialed.
Little wonder the idealist in him seeks a totally secure
voting machine, a totally fraud-proof electoral process.
However, newly aware of the stakes, risks, and intellectual challenges associated with
voting equipment, computer scientists and mathematicians specializing in encryption are now avidly taking part in the search for dependable and inviolable
voting technology.
Of course, there's always the old technique of requesting an absentee ballot under an assumed name, which is essentially just repeat
voting using the mail.
"Opening up the
voting pool to a younger generation may inspire our generation to vote more often, and take part in democracy," he sags.
As You Sow is working to make the process of proxy
voting easier for investors through the ProxyInformation.
Some legislators and elections officials insist that new restrictions on registering to vote or
voting are necessary to eliminate "voter fraud." But the real crime is the disenfranchisement of eligible voters brought about by these restrictions.
"Women who were adults at that time had been socialized to believe that
voting was socially inappropriate for women," says Susan J.
The
Voting Rights Act is coming up for renewal in 2007.
Exactly one year ago the Humanist ran a story about the unreliability of electronic
voting machines, noting that they are programmed with unsecure software and are inauditable because they leave no paper trail.
Fifty-two percent of the
voting shareholders opted in favor of the proposal.