Will ACORN Be Put In Charge Of Internet Voting?
May 26, 2009
Jim Pinkerton speculates on the Fox News blog about the future of Internet voting in national elections. Some highlights:
“So if vote fraud is already a problem, what will happen when the ‘vote’ is simply an electronic impulse, that could have come, potentially, from anywhere in the U.S. – or around the world. Who will oversee the e-voting process? And who will oversee the overseers?
“In 30 states, the chief elections officer is the state’s secretary of state. In the wake of the 2004 elections, smart Democrats launched the Secretary of State Project …. The [website] tells visitors – and, more to the point, potential donors – that a ‘modest political investment in electing clean Secretaries of State is an efficient way to stop voter suppression.’
“ … Internet voting is coming. If Democratic techies dominate the research and development of new processes, that will be fine with Democrats. If Democratic secretaries of state adjudicate the implementation process, and the vote-counting, that, too, will be fine with Democrats. And if Net voting comes quicker to Democrat-leaning places than Republican-leaning places, well, that will likely be A-OK with Democrats.
“But for Republicans, a Democrat-dominated e-vote system would be a swift road to political extinction.”
Posted by Dan Pero in the categories: Secretary of State Watch
One Response to “Will ACORN Be Put In Charge Of Internet Voting?”
We can already see the danger in internet voting, therefore we should not have it. Keep things basic like the old times and see we’ll have fewer problems.