Actually, I agree. I have yet to be told why marking an 'x' in a box, is something that we need to move away from. It's tried and tested and the usual arguments are simply that it's old-fasioned or takes too long to count... as if democracy (or at least the illusion of it) isn't worth spending a couple of hours extra every four years, counting the votes by hand, or that the validity of the vote was irrelevant. If it aint broke, don't fix it (although I can accept that the 'hanging chads' episode probably prompted these changes - ironically they'll probably result in the same situation).
Time to quote my favourite quote:
Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in a automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at a terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked "progress."
~ Lord Dunsany~
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"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction" Dick Cheney - August 26, 2002
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