By Richard Walrath

 

As you know, my proposal is just to use fund-raising as a proxy for elections — whoever raises or has the most money wins.  This is accurate for something like 99% of all so-called elections that take place.  How much more accuracy do you want than that?  It’s certainly close enough for government work, and would give states time enough to figure out how to vote.  Given enough time, they might conclude that the thing to do is scrap all the hardware, all the gizmos and gadgets, along with all the scanners and other paraphanalia, and just mail in paper ballots.  Fewer errors, lower costs, and who cares if it takes a few more days?   The 2000 election dragged on until December, and see what we ended up with.