[ExI] Immaculate Election

[Dylan Distasio]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 9:30 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Which brings up another point. If voting machines are universally
> distrusted and despised, then why do we still use them? Why do
> companies still make them? If distrust of voting machines are causing
> massive protests that lead to injury, loss of life, and destruction of
> property and historic artifacts, then should not the manufacturers of
> voting machines be held liable for the damages? Putting these
> companies on the hook for the damage done seems a great deterrent to
> keep companies from trying to sell governments voting machines that
> nobody trusts.
>
> It would make it so that any kind of voting software would have to be
> developed open source since no company would be willing to take on the
> liability. Which actually makes a lot of sense to me because the
> entire notion of representative democracy is on the line and so the
> stakes could hardly be higher. I don't see how the Republic can
> continue to survive if we can't restore people's trust in our elections.
>
>
Cui bono?  That's where the explanation lies as to why we still use them,
as well as why no transparency was provided around this election to assuage
concerns over fraud.
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