In Number 9, Benari Poulten remarks on how fast American Idol held a revote to correct irregularities, in contrast to, say, the uncorrected mess in Florida in 2000 and the uncorrected mess in Ohio in 2004.
I can't remember where it was, but there was an article a ways back on the rather stringent requirements for slot machines in Vegas -- the software has to be registered with the government, machines are tested at random regularly -- as opposed to voting machines, which are unchecked, with secret software, and quite a lot of glitches, all of which seem to help the Republicans. That is, when there are enough voting machines at all, which only happens in white, upper-class neighborhoods.
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Thanks for the trackback! I still don't understand why a better national voting standard hasn't been applied yet, but I guess until it starts favoring someone else, The Powers That Be will keep things pretty much as is.
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