Friends,
MSNBC projects that Hillary wins California with 15 percent of the returns reported. Great job, knuckleheads. Just to get ahead of the predictions, I’m gonna project Bill Richardson wins Guam with none-percent. How’s that for wild speculation? Gravel wins Saskatchewan! Tancredo trounces the competition in Santee!
Cripes. Our Secretary of State, bless her heart, wouldn’t certify the electronic voting machines for this election so our ballots up here, for instance, will be trucked down the hill to the waiting optical readers. The early votes that MSNBC is looking at are from, er, early and absentee voters. Those are folks who haven’t been moved by the events of the last week or so and perhaps listened to the evil polls to place their votes. Don’t get me wrong, some of my best friends voted early. I think, however, that they should’ve held out and waited for some of the dynamics to play out. Maybe even go to their polling place. What could be more fun?
Where do you suppose California’s crack security experts have gone? Couldn’t they help secure our two year old voting machines? That we bought? With our money? It’s a shame that we don’t have any software developers in this state.
Challenge: Apple iParticipate. Touch screen interface. Pictures of the candidates on screen with brief candidate video statements. Good lord, a great big voting iPod would be a winner. OS X is inherently secure and mostly open to scrutiny by security researchers. Mr. Ive, break out your golden pen and design it. We’ll wait.
Your comments are always welcome.
Your pal,
bob