| | | have choices, and for some I choose a simple but secure password. For others I use the facial recognition or other biometrics app.
These are things you do for your own security. That does not the question. In that response you were approaching it as a user rather than a system designer.
The question is what the system does to protect its own security. Fraud upon the system is what you've been complaining about--people voting for other people, particularly dead ones, generating extra D votes out of whole cloth for non-existant voters, or manipulating voters into voting for D's as they are voting. So it's the system that has to make sure that you're the registered voter you claim to be when you input your vote. How would you do that?
For passwords or biometrics to work for that purpose, wouldn't you would have to register your password or your face or fingerprint or whatever with the election officials when you register to vote? That way they could be sure you were you. Is that approach viable?
If by "current circumstances" you mean "Democrats' need to cheat",
What would the folks who consider getting a jab an assault on their freedom think about having to give their visage or fingerprints to the government so they could vote?
You are more the picture of privilege than pretty much anyone I know.
I am quite privileged and I know it, not as privileged as the super rich and well connected, but more so than the vast majority of the country. I didn't start out that way, so I know what it feels like not to be, but I am now. I got it via personal astuteness and diligence, the change of culture over time, and good fortune.
The difference between you and me is that I recognize that there are people who can't take the couple of hours off work on election day that Uncle Sam allowed me to hit the polls at off hours, or who wouldn't have the transport to get there if they could get the time off, or have jobs with no flexibility as to work hours, or who don't have jobs but are tied to tending loved ones in their homes and can't leave them alone, or are, themselves, disabled or for whatever reason cannot easily make the biannual pilgrimage.
Disdainfully call that noblesse oblige, if you will, but it's better than blindly or cavalierly dismissing those who have no privilege at all, as did the fellow in the focus group and you. Or, even worse, thinking that their right to vote is less than yours because you just give lip service to democracy and they are other. If you can get away from whatever you do with your time to go to the polls on election day for however many hours that takes, you have more privilege than many people. |
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