While sitting on my porch yelling at clouds, I often reflect that voting didn't have to be this way. We had a perfectly rational system for decades, in which the locality would send a letter to new residents, asking them to update their voter registration. Reminder letters would go out, advising of polling locations and hours. People would show up at the appointed place and time, and there would be some ladies with a log-book of all the registered voters for the voting precinct. You'd say who you were, they would cross off your name, and you'd go to the voting machine.

No doubt ballot fuckery must have happened on some level, but there was no opportunity for ELECTRONIC fuckery. It is hard to conceive of how an electronic system could ever be secure, given that every electronic device seems to be hackable.

So we took a system that was 'capped' at the local level, even though open to human error….and replaced it with a system that was open to human and electronic hacking from top to bottom. In the old system, you could rest assured that human error would statistically cancel out. In the new system, you can rest assured that every well-funded organisation with a motive will be hacking into the thing.

But this is the 21st century, you say, we need blockchain voting by QR code on our mobile phone. Shit, I would rather give a paper ballot to my local sheriff, as he stands there with his gun on his hip looking me in the eye.