In the age of breakneck technological innovation, one aspect of government the digital revolution has yet to touch: voting.
It's surprising we still use volunteer poll workers, outdated machines and manual name validation at the thousands of polling places across the country. It creates the opportunity for fraud and makes recounts and result verification extremely difficult. (See the HBO movie "Recount" for an example of how manual-voting processes can become a major disaster.)
"You must spend money," observed Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus, "to make money."
That constitutes sound advice for investors and business owners. In government, politicians effortlessly twist the proverb into: "You must spend taxpayer money to justify spending even more taxpayer money."
