I don't trust any election anymore. [View all]

[Atman]

I have been an assistant Registrar of Elections, I've seen it all behind the scenes. The old mechanical machines rocked. Triple redundancy. Now we use George W. Bush's Magical Mystery Machines with zero accountability. And somehow, despite all evidence and polling to the contrary, Republicans keep winning everything. Gerrymandering and computer-rigged electronic polling machines have made elections a joke. There is no way to audit vote tallies, and the GOP pretty much OWNS the entire voting machine industry.

I understand that the "flyover states" are a bunch of hicks who like authori-tay. They vote Right. But there are not that many actual humans on the ground in those states. The population centers vote Democratic. Democrats win virtually every election, and yet we don't take office because of "technicalities." Or the Electoral College.

I'm feeling like my kid. Why bother? I've been part of The Process on many levels, from Registrar, to campaigning, to Democratic advertising. Ever since W and his Magical Mystery Machines, every election has been 50/50 up until the night the media announces the winners. It's always a horse race now, when in the past, before Magical Mystery Machines, polling was very accurate.

I don't trust any of it anymore. Bring back the old mechanical voting machines. Outlaw gerrymandering.