Reply #12: i think the mere fact that there is the appearance of meddling and attempts [View All]

[ejpoeta]

to prevent people from voting that really hurts the voting process the most and the integrity of the system. I mean, first of all, you can't trust the vote counts like in the supreme court election with kloppenburg and prosser simply because of mishandled ballots and that woman who decided to do stuff on her own computer instead of the official one. When you have these kinds of issues, then no one trusts the elections and will question the legitimacy and authority of elected officials even if they were elected fair and square. Or that whole fiasco in the 2000 election in Florida. People don't trust elections. and each cycle something happens that makes them trust it less. Not sure how to fix that except by adhering to strict rules and guidelines and chain of command stuff with ballots and computer information as well as making sure as many people can vote as possible. I wish people would see voting as a responsibility instead of an inconvenience. I know some places make it an inconvenience as part of their effort to keep some people from voting.