Electronic Voting Fails at State Republican Convention
Thursday 6th of May 2021
The great English philosopher G.K. Chesterton said that before one takes a fence down, one must find out why the fence was put up. Certainly, change is sometimes good, but sometimes it is not
.Electronic voting is a bad idea whose time should never come.
The recent debacle at the 2021 Republican State Convention demonstrated that rather powerfully. The powers that be in the Oklahoma Republican Party decided that we should do our voting, not by the old tried and true method of voting by counties – by paper ballots – then announcing it in a process that takes only a minimal length of time, but rather we should vote through a link provided in an email that we received on our smart phones, tablet, or laptop computer.
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