I learned that 80% of the North-American voting system is based on closed software and private technology secrets, that is, the technology is not open to inspection by the public, the voters; not even by the public administration (for detailed information on these issues, check blackboxvoting.org).

This is the ultimate proof of the misery of the north-American democracy: somebody will win the election but you cannot check if the result has anything to do with the actual votes. Sounds like Socialist Romania minus the public healthcare, education and research.

A voting system which relies in its essential parts on the commercial secrets of some private groups cannot qualify for democracy. No kind of political system can survive without transparency anymore. Until public checking of the vote counting is reinstated, the term “the biggest democracy on earth” is a lame joke.

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