Q mentioned "The Circle". This is the name of a movie from last year.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4287320/
"A woman lands a dream job at a powerful tech company called the Circle, only to uncover an agenda that will affect the lives of all of humanity."
I haven't seen it. Has anyone else?
OK, well, I think there's a copy in the local Redbox. I suppose I could go get it. Then perhaps we can have a discussion about it.
I can tell you several ways it can be done, based on what I've seen. What we really need to do is go back to paper ballots that have the contests printed on them. This last point is important because one of the potential ways to commit voter fraud is to switch out the key by which an ink dot card is marked or read. Also, I think voting by mail needs to be discouraged. Permanent vote by mail status should only be granted where there truly is an inability to get to the polls. For the rest of us, I think vote by mail ballots should be the exception and not the rule and should be applied per election. During the primaries in the past presidential election cycle, fully 18% of the voters in my precinct had to be handled provisionally because they were listed as having been sent a vote by mail ballot but did not bring it into the polls. Half of those said they had not received it. The provisional and vote by mail systems put an extra step into the process, potentially allowing a vote to be thrown out without being counted because it is deemed incorrect in some way. The potential exists that a vote could officially be thrown out because someone didn't sign an envelope while the true reason is that the voter marked his party as Republican. (Yes, this question is asked on the envelope where I live.) It would be far better, I believe, to come to the polls and vote a normally voted ballot since normally voted ballots do not have the potential for exception as do the vote by mail and provisional ballots..
Turns out it isn't available, even though they listed the title on their site. I'll have to settle for a summary. Here's one:
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-circle-2017
What I can say already is that casting someone personable as the villain was actually a good move, in spite of what Roger Ebert might say about it. The truth is that many of the villains in this real life drama we are in now are charismatic likable people. This was said about Adolf Hitler, and it has also been said about Fidel Castro. The people we trust most can be the worst offenders. Even Q said this.
Ebert seemed to think the premise was pure fiction. The truly scary part of this techo-horror flick is that we've since found out that there's a lot of truth in the premise after all. People keep freaking out when their computers offer them ads based on something they said to someone offline, or in one case, based on what was browsed in a store. Wild stuff.
The current generation may see lax justice as normal, but it hasn't always been this way. Justice was swift and often capital for crimes that have now become "normal' and tolerated. Yes, it will be a shock to them. But laxity has burdened society, too.