{"id":1716,"date":"2006-10-31T04:55:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T11:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/31\/vote\/"},"modified":"2006-10-31T04:55:31","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T11:55:31","slug":"vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/31\/vote\/","title":{"rendered":"vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy is based on people casting a vote. Making the act to vote more complicated than it needs to be is a simply a criminal act against the spirit of Democracy. In developed Democracies you vote by taking a thick pencil and making a cross inside of a circle. That&#8217;s it. Since decades. Works always and there is nothing wrong with that. It&#8217;s the best way of doing this. In 2000 there was a bit of a stir up in the USA around punch cards, butterfly ballots and hanging chads. The remedy was not to abandon complicated things. It was to add more layers of technology. Which defies logic and furhter dilutes the act of voting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/10\/30\/florida-diebold-machines-help-you-pick-the-right-candidate\/\"> This kind of story<\/a> is to be expected. Actually the whole vote fraud idea deters people from voting, instead of motivating them. Which means that democracy looses it&#8217;s foundation.<br \/>\nIf you have any doubts about mal intend around the voting process just look up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gerrymandering\">&#8220;Gerrymandering&#8221;<\/a>. But sure the US has all the rights to wage war on the other side of the planet to <strike>find WMD<\/strike>, <strike>retaliate 911<\/strike> spread Democracy. I wonder if those painted index fingers were collored diebold. 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