Reflections on the Election

["Tim Hillebrand" <thillebr@moscow.com>]

Perhaps the time has come, in this fast paced electronic age, to abandon the
>polling place in favor of a different means of casting ballots.  Should we
>look to our elected leaders to try and fashion a more convenient method of
>voting, knowing that they were elected by such few numbers?

Perhaps we wouldn't need representatives if we had instantaneous, electronic
voting on issues. We could, for the first time, have a true democracy. Or
maybe that would be an "electocracy," as in ruled by electronic
representation.

Tim