democracy for dummies (Score 1)

They are perfectly willing to spend millions of dollars on doing recounts, fighting lawsuits, and don't apparently mind that America is becoming ever more cynical about the integrity of our voting system, but they won't spend a little extra money on voting machines? Give me a break. There are some who clearly favor a lack of accountability, and those people are called criminals. This is far too a matter to put into the hands of politically appointees or bureaucrats trying to appease their political masters. We need a Constitutional Amendment making every single voting place have a paper record. There are NO COMPUTERS that hackers can't hack into. I repeat, if you have a computer, then a hacker can break into your system and it doesn't matter how much security you think you have. The only exception could be someone like the NSA and somehow I doubt the polling places will ever achieve that kind of security. What we need are paper ballots and qualified voting place monitors from all parties involved in an election at that voting place, as well as from non-partisan groups that can make sure the independents aren't being cheated. Land of the free and home of the brave, but for how much longer if we allow corrupt people to tamper with the voting box?