Vote Matters

BY LISA A., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR

the under educated German population before World War II.

We think we have developed more savvy, but the truth is that many people in the South and in poor populations that are mined for soldiers, janitors and factory workers are taught to respect and obey authority.

Of course, respecting someone who has more responsibilities than you is wise. But questioning authority is our civic duty. Because of the hard work that the Vietnam Veterans did to enable soldiers to have a few rights when fighting a war, we now all have the responsibility to challenge authority figures if we see that they are heading down a destructive or immoral path.

This law is framed as “ The Duty to Disobey.” Naturally, there are very restricted circumstances under which this is OK, but if you ignore it, you could also be thrown in jail for violating the Constitution of the United States, committing a crime, or “just following orders.”

In voting, the same ideas apply. Trump decided to accuse the U.S. Postal Service of mishandling our mail, so the written ballots would not be admissible in our voting process. Millions of people ignored him.

The startling results brought up the suspicion that perhaps our voting machines are still unethical.

Who knows how far Diebold Nixdorf's influence stretches? Machines and computers most certainly can easily be tampered with. We had real voting results when everyone decided to mail in their ballots. What is your opinion on this?

If my suspicions are correct, then perhaps we should adopt a method that Canada uses. It is super high-tech. They use pen and paper. There are citizens supervising the papers when they get put in the ballot boxes, and there are quite a few citizens of all political persuasions supervising the ballot count. Because they stretch so far from west to east, by the time the eastern votes are counted, all the other votes are already counted. So there is no real delay in the tally.

This reminds me of when the Soviets were ahead of us in documenting what they were observing in space because their astronauts