Actually, it is misplaced matter of faith that voters have anything to do with it. Our voting system is so completely with any audit trail, any verification mechanism, that Stalin’s wisdom is the only one that pertains: “In democratic elections only who counts the votes matters.”
In liberal California we had a referendum, a little trickier to bugger, both because those who counted the votes are SEIU employees, and mostly black, and because it was black voters who made marriage a legal contact between a man and women. I may miss-remember the exact number, but 8% is my recollection.
These days, with voter tabulation managed by the SEIU, we may as well live in Venezuela or the old USSR. Citizens must try to grasp the significance of the unquestioned fact that votes cast in a precinct become the property of the state, out of sight of precinct workers, who once counted the ballots before they were removed to secure storage. Likewise, absentee ballots are counted by the SEIU. That is why union workers in government has destroyed the integrity of our voting system. The party in power has no reason to change this, and every reason to keep the public ignorant.
Polls probably have more integrity than votes because pollsters, at least some, benefit by predicting reliably. The SEIU has every reason, including physical risk, to keep the secret. We can’t talk about the secrets, rather like conjecture about who Obama really is, but we can look at the systems in place. The only conclusion is that our current system eliminates an audit trail. The vote, beginning with a mark or touch on a screen, or a mailed ballot, is counted entirely by SEIU workers, away from any neutral observer. The Germans eliminated this travesty a few years ago, returning to paper ballots. In the tradition of Nancy Pelosi, reading the voter information pamphlets is ridiculous. Just wait until the “elections” have passed and officials will tell us what we wanted, and what is to be imposed on us.
All you said I agree with. So where are the republicans in congress doing anything about it? Funny thing is when Bush-43 was winning, the democrat bloggers were also against electronic voting.