Tuesday, October 31, 2006

newspaper cover: voting machine disapproved

In 35 voting districts the voting machines are disapproved because the computers are unreliable.
Amsterdam is one of the districts. The media says tonight that the city will vote manually. That's means color the white dot red of the candidate you want to choose.
Oh, I wanna be an Amsterdammer (inhabitant of the city of Amsterdam) for one day only to choose with the red pencil.

It's so romantic. Then the voting night will last till hours after midnight before the results become clear. Check and double check and making sure what happens because it's so transparent.

I miss that with the damned computerized voting machines. This procedure killed democracy. Young people don't see the magic of the voting procedure. Now it's one press on the button and -there your vote goes-. The whole procedure of getting your voting billet, going behind the curtain and closing it, filling in the billet, walking back and putting your vote in the basket (and with young children they do it for you. The basics of democracy for a child).