Will we have fair elections again?

[MoonRiver]

And by "fair" I mean without electronic machine rigging or massive voter disenfranchisement. I have my doubts.

[Turbineguy]

1. Didn't Saddam Hussein have a fair

election where he won by 99%?

You have an election like that, you don't need to rig it.

[MoonRiver]

4. Yes, that's what I'm talking about,

for those who are paying attention.

[RKP5637]

2. I doubt it. Certainly none winning this time will be interested in election reform. n/t

[metroins]

3. I do not believe

The machines were rigged. Each side makes this claim and, even though it's possible to do, there is not proof of systemic rigging.

I'm also not a huge believer in disenfranchisement. I think there can be more done to make it easier to vote, but if you want to vote, you can.

I would love to see automatic enrollment and more early voting, as well as scrapping the caucus system.

[TheFrenchRazor]

9. you're very trusting. the way i see it, 1.machines are hackable, 2.the presidency is at stake, there

therefore, it is virtually guaranteed that someone will try to hack the machines, and at some point they will succeed, at least to some degree.

[hrmjustin]

5. Not in the near future.

[DetlefK]

6. The US electoral system was never meant to be democratic or fair.

What do you think why safeguards such as the Electoral College or the filibuster exist? Or why political gerrymandering is considered perfectly normal? It's to protect the politicians from what the unwashed masses want.

Your elections have never been "fair" because they aren't supposed to be.

[MoonRiver]

7. The founding fathers never anticipated electronic voting machines. Just saying.

EDIT: Are you saying that Dems should cheat as much as the Repukes, because that's the way our system rolls?

[DetlefK]

10. If you do it by the book, it's not cheating. Don't like the rulebook? Work to change it.

[TheFrenchRazor]

8. start in YOUR STATE, and work to get all hand-counted papers ballots, otherwise, no. nt

[Cobalt Violet]

11. I'm affraid it might take a civil war.

I don't see that there won't be a civil war.