Re:DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastr...
by explainplease on Friday October 12, 2018 @07:53AM
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The point I'm making is that our elections have worked well, because they're still going on, and our nation still has its original form of government. If we ceased to have elections, as you hypothesize, it would no longer be the same nation, because it would have abandoned its form of government. So the fact that we're having this conversation, talking about elections that have been going on for over 200 years, indicates that, yes, they're actually working pretty well.
When we eventually stop having them, then we can revisit this conversation and long for the good old days. Meet you back here in...a few centuries?
Doesn't follow; countries can exist for a long time without elections at all, and, a fortiori, without elections that “work well”. Our existence and ability to debate th topic doesn't prove our elections worked well on average over history, or that they've been working well in their most recent form. Or much of anything else.