Electronic Voting and Government by Plutocracy

Times have changed and the methods we use to calculate votes have changed to. These changes aren't all necessarily for the better. Electronic voting takes some of the work out of the electoral process, but leaves much to be desired. In 2008 Local 2 news channel reported as many as 4,000 people who were deceased jumped from their graves to vote for Obama. That was just one in one state imagine how many others there were.

This years primaries,

With current primaries coming up and Halloween nearly in full swing I wonder how many ghouls, zombies and ghosts will be voting at this year's poll. The electronic ballot system needs some reform if we are to have honest elections.

This wasn't the first or the last time that deceased people and convicted felons still in prison have reportedly cast their votes. Another instance which details this example and hits a little closer to my home Tacoma, WA is the Gregoire election.

Dead people vote for Gregoire,

As reported by Sound Politics "Intrepid SoundPolitics reader Michael Nervik pulled published death notices from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for August 25th, 2004, then cross-checked the results with the King County voter database. Out of 37 names he found 4 of these that seem to have had an absentee ballot sent in for the November election." 4 out of 37 that's nearly %10 of the absentee ballots that were posted for Gregoire's continued reign as Governor. Remember that this is just out of the obituary for 1 randomly picked day.

The flaws of our current democracy,

When taking into account all the flaws that our system presents; it's hardly justified to say that "we the people" really have much say. When it comes to writing legislature that governs us it's the lobbyists who get precedence, not the people.

Short of a group of people banding together to pay for a lobbyist to protect our interests, we don't really have a say. Now that brings to mind the question; how do these lobbyists live if they are always waiting in line to get seen?

How our legislature comes to be,

The answer is someone is paying them for their time. Whoever that person is basically is buying their way into legislature that will later govern us. Large companies like MC Donalds or Walmart use lobbyists to protect their interests while the people who work steady jobs for these companies are left out.

The system is corrupt, broken, and disturbingly directed at those with money having power. A perfect example of this kind of corruption would be the recent bail outs handed to banks and large automotive companies.

This country was founded on the basis of equality and bailing out these industries took away that equality. The question is, why would the government bail these companies out?

In order for the American dream to live, we need freedom, equality, and peace of mind. These things don't come easy and it may soon be time to take what Theodore Roosevelt once said to heart

"We stand equally against government by a plutocracy and government by a mob. There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with "the money touch," but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers."

Basically what he was saying is that government is not meant to be controlled by monetary value or by people who control the wealth. The government was meant to be controlled by us. The current reality is that people like Gregoire and Obama get elected by dead people and their campaigns are funded by companies with "ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers".I honestly don't know a single person who said that they voted for Gregoire this last election yet she somehow won and In Obama's case there is a very real possibility as close as the polls were in many states that dead people were the cause of his being elected.

The definition of plutocracy