The Politics of Voting

Technology is supposed to be there to help ease the pain of everyday life. Technology is also there to make a task such as counting votes on paper ballots much easier. But it seems like the U.S. government cannot put a computer to committing itself to complete an easy task such as counting votes.

Websites all over the internet have polls which as questions like, "What is better, apples or bananas?" or "Who was the greatest president of all time?" All you have to do on these website is to click on of the choices and hit the submit button. When that happens the votes are simply counted and the winner is whoever received the most votes.

Even wrestling has taken this age old form of democracy to please viewers. World Wrestling Entertainment Incorporated (WWE) created their own event, Cyber-Sunday in which the viewers go online and decide who they want to see fight each other.

The Midterm elections a couple days ago faced many problems. 80% of the nation was going to be voting via some sort of electronic equipment. But many experienced technical complications. Reports came in of systems crashing, touch screens orientated in ways that when a person touched the name of one candidate, the other was selected. There were also computer errors, computer glitches, and some poll workers were unfamiliar with the electronic voting equipment.

Why is it that the United States cannot create a simple electronic means of voting when there are millions of website on the internet already doing it everyday. Sure there can be problems with things such as computer glitches, overload on the program, and even hacking. But can't all of those things be solved? Such a simple task as voting is being so overcomplicated. Don't you think something should be done. Or maybe we should leave or dependency on technology and move on back to paper voting? But now that would disturb the environmentalists now wouldn't it?