Fiasco has tarnished history for our children

Published 9:00 pm Friday, January 21, 2005

The need for voting reform is the understatement of this decade; I’m not sure the word “reform” quite encompasses what needs to happen.

By today’s technological standards, the voting process in Washington was slightly more sophisticated than what monkeys could come up with, though I wager monkeys would have more accuracy as they lack the malice and dishonesty some humans apparently have.

The current voting system is just sad. Compared to something like banking, it raises the question of where exactly do my tax dollars go. I don’t pay my bank a single fee, yet I can withdraw money from anywhere in this world and my account will balance to the exact penny.

Multiple levels of checks and balances as well as general honesty is what the voting process needs. Maybe the banks should handle our elections, or the monkeys. Anything has to be better than what happened.

The other aspect of the recent gubernatorial election is that there are, if anyone has taken notice, votes illegally cast by people who should really be prosecuted and fined. There is no excuse to cast illegal votes, and it is each citizen’s responsibility to know if they are eligible to vote and to register themselves to vote. It’s civil duty, and I hope law, that each citizen vote legally.

Great changes are being made in the world and freedom has never been felt more. Humanity should be at its grandest of civility and technology. This fiasco will tarnish history for our children. If you are not doing something to help, then you are just as guilty as those who stripped us all of a legal and fair vote.

Truth, justice and the American way, right?

Michelle Anderson

Everett