Re: How can Neal say Boulder's election was accurate

[Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Paul E Condon wrote:

> I don't believe that there is a conspiracy of the bureaucratic/corporate
> complex. I believe in the existence of human incompetance. There are
> a lot of well meaning people who don't do what you, or I, want because
> they don't know any better.

There's no conspiracy, just money- and security- seeking, conscious
or unconcious. The latter is why they don't WANT paper backup: they
don't want to have to explain why a manual recount differs from the
electronic count. Notice all the news stories about how much less
problems there were this year, with the DREs. No wonder! There's no
way to really recount. Ignorance is bliss.

Like all bureaucrats they're always looking for an easier more
convenient button to push. People are a problem for bureaucrats.

They don't WANT to "know any better." They want to believe the
corporados that the corps will make them look good.

"Keeping citizens apart has become the first maxim of modern politics."
-Rousseau

Evan