The perfect solution for New Jersey voting

I wish to begin this off by saying that I had a really nice expertise casting my votes right this moment in Roosevelt the place they reward your expertise with not solely a sticker however a cookie as effectively. No cookies got in Mercer County, nonetheless.

Solely in New Jersey may we make voting scarier than Halloween. I wakened this morning with a textual content telling me that the voting machines had been down in Mercer County. From Mercer County spokeswoman Julie Willmont to NJ1015.com.

“We’re asking ballot employees to make use of the official ballots as a result of they will nonetheless vote them manually, and place them within the slot within the scanning machines and we’ll depend them manually,” Mercer County spokeswoman Julie Wilmont instructed New Jersey 101.5. “We have now Dominion and different IT professionals coming down to repair the issue. No voter ought to stroll away.”

In the meantime, additionally from the article, “Voters in Hamilton and a supply concerned with the county voting course of had been instructed that the ink used to print the ballots couldn’t be learn by the scanner.”

You ask your self, How can this be? The polling folks solely had one job: be certain that the polls work so as to vote. Do they not take a look at these things out beforehand? Why in 2022 are we nonetheless utilizing paper ballots? Is not there a greater method? You guess there’s and it is referred to as on-line voting.

I am a member of the Display screen Actors Guild and as a member, I get to vote on the SAG Awards. Annually, I am despatched the nominated motion pictures and a deadline for me to vote on-line. I merely go on the web site, put in my pin quantity that’s despatched to me, and vote away.

Why cannot this be achieved for political elections? I went on-line to analysis this query and located a website referred to as electionbuddy.com, which handles elections in all types of companies, colleges, and non secular organizations. So it’s being achieved.

Somebody on Reddit asks, “If we are able to financial institution on-line why cannot we vote on-line?” They are saying anonymity. I say certainly in the event that they tried arduous sufficient, they may give you software program to guard your anonymity, possibly they may ask ElectionBuddy.

We have come too far as folks and we’ve got an excessive amount of expertise at our disposal to nonetheless be counting on voting machines and paper ballots. If you happen to nonetheless wish to have them nice, however a minimum of have on-line voting included as an possibility.

Opinions expressed within the publish above are these of New Jersey 101.5 discuss present host Steve Trevelise solely. Comply with him on Twitter @realstevetrev.