We are constantly told that millions of poor, minority, and women voters are incapable of securing and retaining photo ID to allow them to vote in an election that requires state-issued ID, how in the world will these same voters wrestle up the where-with-all to set up a secure Bitcoin identity, and be able to successfully vote by holding on to said Bitcoin identity?

Will setting up your required Bitcoin identity require voters to prove their identity? That's RACIST!

How can your politics be so screwed up that both houses are run by the opposite party to the president in power.

Because every candidate in the House is up for re-election every two years, accounting for 435 discrete elections, the Senate has 1/3rd of it's members up for re-election every two years, resulting in 33 discrete elections, and the Presidency is up for re-election every four years.

Why would you imagine such a process would result in all three having their majority be the same party?

No, what he said he was (and this is staggering) it takes to long/it's too hard to do the research, WRITE DOWN his choices, then head to the polls and vote!

Apparently, the ability to do his research with his ABSENTEE BALLOT in front of him, marked as he decides is also too hard - maybe his mom refuses to take his mail tithe mailboxes?

Question: Let's say the tabulated election results and a paper trail/audit trail are different, which will be used for the "official results"?

If we always trust the audit trail, then why even tabulate the results?

If we always trust the tabulated results, why have the audit trail?

If 'it depends' then on what does it depend? Which party stands to gain from a particular version of the results!

The only response that makes sense with inconsistent election results is to hold a new election... Are you prepared to hold a second election, considering the time it would take to (for example) print new absentee ballots, mail them out, then wait SEVERAL WEEKs for those absentee ballots to return?

U.S. election laws forbid the creation of a 'receipt' that lists who an individual votes for, because to generate one would allow voters to (provably) 'sell' their vote.

Voting needs to be easier? How is it in any way hard now?

You can register to vote during many ordinary interactions with government (motor voter laws).

People can solicit your registration and deliver it to the government.

The polls in some localities are open for WEEKS because some people's schedules are so onerous they can't find the time in a given 24 hour election to vote.

You can vote by mail via absentee ballot, in most cases the only reason needed is a desire to not go to the polling station.

You can request absentee ballots be sent to you in perpetuity, never requiring you to ask for an absentee ballot again.

Campaigns will drive to your house, pick you up, and deliver you to your polling station if you ask them to.

Campaigns go out and canvass hospitals, mental institutions, and even prisons to 'dig up' voters that can't make it to the polls.

You can register to vote on Election Day in many localities... No waiting period.

And you don't even need to remember to bring ID to the polls, unless you live in one of the two dozen or so states that require state-issued ID to vote.

Where is the onerous burden that Bitcoin-based online voting addresses that is not equally-well addressed by the current absentee ballot programs across the country?

dial-up modem

Where? There's a good chance the company that provides your local phone service isn't the same one that serves my house...

I find it hard to believe your local switch doesn't support pulse dialing - did they just upgrade the local switch (doubtful) or stop offering it as a 'service' (more likely).

given enough hands it will never, ever, lose...

That is the exact claim every person with a gambling problem says - it is also the exact same principle that has funded countless casinos...

The code that truncated years to two digits (Y2K bug) or relied on the epoch clock (2038 bug) were not designed to work past year 1999 or 2038, try were built with limitations that were accepted by the developer, testers, and users - even if they didn't understand the trade-off they made or the self-imposed self-destruct mechanism they hard-coded into their program. In effect, they were designed to fail, so I guess one could argue they 'work as defined', they were just poorly defined.

My experience with migrating from legacy apps says you'd churn out a half asses solution, which isn't compatible with the existing stuff, and which can't be made so, and which would eventually be abandoned as untenable.

This is something the federal government proves over and over again... The current tax code is a staggering collection of decades-old COBOL code, the air traffic control systems until very recently ran on vacuum tube computers, and the FBI has tried, and failed, repeatedly to transition off a collection of mainframe tools for agents onto something more modern and flexible, wasting billions of dollars in the process.

Is it safe to assume you prefer the party that told you 'we have to pass the bill, to see what's in it', that couldn't be bothered to read bills they were cosponsors on, and admonished fellow politicians to 'never let a crisis go to waste'?

BTW, all the preceding statements were made by actual elected officials of the Democrat party (Rep. Pelosi, Rep. Conyers, and Rahm Emanuel) - Grover Norquist is a commentator brought on shows to be outlandish, not for striking compromises with his opponents.

There was this article that was pretty comprehensive and fair...

The internet is 'broken' because internet startups can't afford to invest in solutions to provide the same response times and connection speeds that established players can.

The 'problem' can be explained like this: imagine we are talking about actual packages, not packets of data, and instead of your ISP we are talking about the post office. The argument for 'parcel neutrality' would be that the post office can't offer overnight delivery because doing so will distract them from the timely delivery of my first class mail...

I also remember that under that model, I could pay the telephone company about $20 for basic service (the line connection), title II taxes included, and an additional $20 to my choice of about 14 ISPs who all had to compete to ensure they had the best uptime, largest modem banks, and most available services for the value. It wasn't fast by the standards of what we have today by any means, but damnit, I could run my servers from my house unhindered!

You can still get a dial-up connection and relive those glorious 56Kb/sec days if you like...

Life was great, as long as your ISP had a POP in your local calling area, to avoid unit messaging tolls on your calls.

Don't want a monopoly in your town for cable TV, high speed internet or wired phone service? Fine, don't renew the current exclusive contracts when they come up for renewal... Google will gladly serve your community with their ads at lightning-fast connection speeds, as long as they can profitably mine your web activity and email content.

Imagine someone that doesn't live within walking distance of their fantasy US address...

You realize not all foreigners live so close to a U.S. border, right?