what i find fascinating is the idea that we now have the technology to make an actual democratic society feasible. one vote for one legal adult.

computers, phones, and the internet make me wonder why we still need something like an electoral college.

on a small scale democracy works great. in the northeast where i'm originally from the town hall meetings and caucuses are a great thing, pure democracy in action. once you get to a larger population tho that starts to break down.

my idea was that anyone who wanted to vote could buy a small handheld device, basically a cell phone, that's dedicated to a server that can log the individual id of the person voting. once a vote has been cast that unit is locked out of the server, or passed onto a different server handling a different election.

did that make any sense?

-matin