IT sounds romantic. It taps on our Luddite urges, the rage against the machine. It hews to our worst fears—a dystopian scenario in which pre-programmed computers skew the presidential elections to favor a would be dictator-crook. Who would then plunge the country into ruin and chaos.
I am referring to the current proposal to manually count the all-too important 2016 presidential election. Or, introduce a hybrid version that would blend a manual part with an automated part. My appeal to the proponents is this: for the sake of the country and our fragile democracy, please don’t resurrect the manual count, or even a hybrid incarnation of it.
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