Further commentary on this thread, which apparently spills salt on a raw nerve:
Hue, I agree with all of your remarks at the bottom of your first blog post. Proprietary software my ass. How hard is it to add up numbers and do a little cross checking? Nothing proprietary in that, and as open source software has shown for millions of other applications, it’s more than up to the task of just about anything. But your point about the need for speed is best — we don’t even need computers to do voting. There is no hurry. We could safely take 3 months every election to tally the votes. There’s no doubt in my mind that the system is corrupt; this news only makes it more concrete and widespread.
I couldn’t agree more. Indeed, a three month wait to discover if you’re getting that new job could even kill off a few of the less worthy applicants. I can’t help but wonder if TV dramas could be built around the idea….
