USA is far from there but it's on that road, familiar to many of us from around the world. Politics is broken in many ways, so it gets abondoned further. Vicious cycle. It's a hard-sell but neither pretendending everything is great nor surrendering to the cynicism is the way out.
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If you lived in a country where they really, really didn't work, it may be easier to tell the difference—even for you. Differentiating between *faulty* democracy and *actual* dictatorship/fascism is crucial—esp. if you want to avoid the real thing.
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I'm well aware of the many failings. May you never live in an actual *failed state* though. Please look around the world and understand what actual, real, full failure looks like—and let's please work to avoid it. This below is surrender, not rebellion: https://twitter.com/david_manthorp/status/1059450282298523648 …
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No. This would make things worse. There are very good reasons voting technology experts recommend optical scan ballots plus meaningful audits.https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1059539854843932674 …
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Can you imagine how this would work? First, let have the government build a biometric database of every citizen and then watch as that database is breached and thumbprints spoofed with inkjet printers (yes yes..
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Anyway, optical scan ballot plus meaningful audits.
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*let's.. correct our typos. Also, besides the insecurity, the point of my op-ed is that electoral trust is a political process. What matters *MOST* is that people have trust and that is best achieved if people can participate in audits if necessary—less "trust us" the better.
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Also let's hand-wave and assume we have the perfect digital/computational set-up for electronic voting (no we don't and we won't at any near enough future I can imagine but for the sake of the argument, let's assume that spherical cow). It would still be a bad idea. Too opaque.
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Sophistry is easy to spot and fun to ignore.
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Say hello to Trump people. The modern Authoritarian . You think you are winning but that is the lie. Him and his puppets are now and will continue to be the winners unless WE, the American people, see through it and fight back by voting.
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