I've made some proposals this morning. Some of the criticisms of these proposals have been cost.
President Bush asked for $192 billion for Iraq.
Don't you think we could afford machines for voting that would lead to a more accurrate count?
Don't you think we can afford 1000 person precincts to be staffed with qualified workers?
Don't you think we can staff a secretary of state office (or local office) with forms that are in English that ask for name address city state zip and date of birth and machines for biometrics for the voter (which would not be an implanted "chip") but would be a thumbprint scan perhaps.
$192 billion for the Iraq, can't we afford the voting machines of Democracy for a fair system?
2007-10-15 05:49:09 · 4 answers · asked by Spartacus 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Sure we could. I don't disagree with this. The ones who can't afford it are our 'honest' politicians!
2007-10-15 05:54:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree that change is expensive, but needed. New voting machines to guarantee that every vote is counted correctly would be fantastic, and polling places staffed with trained workers would be exceptional.
2007-10-15 05:52:57 · answer #2 · answered by Leah 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe we could use it to isolate liberals and educate them on how to use the simple voting machines, since they seem to be the only ones too dumb to operate them. Or maybe we could just pass a law stating that if you are too dumb to work a voting machine, your vote shouldn't count anyway. Seriously, how dumb do you have to be?
2007-10-15 06:01:54 · answer #3 · answered by Brad the Fox 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not while Bush or his cronies are in power. Spending a little money on the stuff you mentioned would probably lead them to losing an election. Which of course means in turn that they couldn't spend any more hundreds of billions of dollars on Iraq.
2007-10-15 06:00:58 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋