http://www.gloriaferris.net/2006/01/early-endorsements-part-ii/ one woman’s view from a place by the zoo in the city Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:37:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.gloriaferris.net/2006/01/early-endorsements-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Denise Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:03:43 +0000 http://www.gloriaferris.net/2006/01/05/early-endorsements-part-ii/#comment-21 One can suggest remedies to even the playing field in elections, such as campaign finance reform, the abolition of early endorsements, and holding all 50 primaries on the same day. But until election fraud is addressed, nothing else will matter. When the CEO of a major purveyor of electronic voting machines can openly vow to try to win the election for a certain candidate, and those machines are demonstrably easy to corrupt, and no paper trail is possible, but boards of election STILL buy that purveyor's products, we have no hope of ensuring fair elections. While parties can manipulate elections all over the country simply by hacking into systems and altering results, then those people who say, "My vote doesn't count," are absolutely correct. One can suggest remedies to even the playing field in elections, such as campaign finance reform, the abolition of early endorsements, and holding all 50 primaries on the same day. But until election fraud is addressed, nothing else will matter. When the CEO of a major purveyor of electronic voting machines can openly vow to try to win the election for a certain candidate, and those machines are demonstrably easy to corrupt, and no paper trail is possible, but boards of election STILL buy that purveyor’s products, we have no hope of ensuring fair elections. While parties can manipulate elections all over the country simply by hacking into systems and altering results, then those people who say, “My vote doesn’t count,” are absolutely correct.

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