After all the hanging chad problems with the Florida elections, you would think that I would welcome electronic voting and be glad to be rid of punch cards. Instead, I felt a small wave of panic come over me when I saw the electronic voting machines.

Is there a conspiracy between the companies that run the machines and certain political candidates? I don’t know. I don’t even know if I believe that there couldn’t have been conspiracies with the old punch cards. I know there were several cases of incompetence where entire boxes of ballots were misplaced. Which is better? I don’t know. I guess the important thing is that I stood in line and made my voice heard for the first time in two years. It will be two years until I can speak again.