In the ongoing saga of the Wisconsin GOP/union battle, a new wrinkle is on the latest battlefield. This past week was the scene of the election of a Wisconsin Supreme Court judge. The incumbent is one
David Prosser, a conservative who is generally considered to be aligned with Governor Walker. The challenger was the state Assistant Attorney General
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Access is a great tool for what it is but it is not a real database and it is not suitable for enterprise level applications
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> in the first place.
For the same reason that 'bureaucrat' is a dirty word. The idea of a technically proficient, nominally non partisan 'middle management' under elected officials is anathema to those who would rally support for shrinking government by assuming and showcasing government incompetence. Thus, "fixing" such situations by making a such a position elected becomes a self fulfilling prophesy, and anti-government sentiment enters a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
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Remember logging onto the internet for the first time? We used to worry about virus's then we had virus protection. Then after we had trojans, worms and such we protected against that too. But by now, with all the layers of various protection, the internet is safe as can be.
Lol, I prefer to trust my democracy to a system that's proven not to be prone to tampering.
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There is no way to design an electronic voting system that is secure from error of some kind. As I'm currently taking a computer security class from a professor who has done significant research into exactly that subject, I do have some basis for this conclusion. Your checks and balances only appear to be secure, I could go into how they could all be bypassed, but I don't think that's necessary at this point.
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