and nothing you can do will change that... My tongue is firmly in cheek but my outrage at some of the responses to this article is not in check.

Do your best to kill democracy with nihilistic, defeatist, hyper-depressed cynicism if that gives you your jollies. But I intend to try to keep Democracy alive by voting, actively pushing us back to a course of accountability. Democracy sucks but every other form of government or chaos is worse.

The core of all consensus realities as Democracy is - is the people who keep working to maintain that reality. Go hide under your bed or in your fallout shelter or keep your head up and try to maintain standards. Your choice of course as always....amazing thing that.

The article is about the last election - and I am not denying their were and probably are problems still. But, in fact the paper tape that goes inside the sealed cassette is a back-up and if needed we can and will demand it be checked. Right!? This is potentially much more accurate than paper counting. How many of you have ever held a job where you had to match 1k plus envelopes with 1k plus letters and make them come out square? How many of you have found extras of either at the end. Counting by humans is rarely accurate. Counting by machines is closer. Yes their are some problems that must be solved as with any event/change/factor/situation that we all encounter daily.

The system where people counted paper ballots was no more or less prone to problems than the machines. In the end the machine is just a tool like a pencil or a shovel... the people who work them are the key to whether the machines or the pencil or the shovel work. Someone counting pencil marks is just as likely to fraud/exhaustion/crossed eyes as a machine might be to tampering... We can/should/will be making sure that the machine is doing its job. To do that we need to be paying attention not hiding and complaining that it is all pointless!

I for one will keep on shovelling...

Di

Where is the IRS in this? Political proselyzation by churches is illegal. THis 'church' has gone past any appearance even of being spritual rather than political. I strongly suggest that someone who witnessed and recorded this political sermon. notify the IRS.

Di