Am I President or Not?
by Lore Sjöberg
The recent difficulties with the election and
the challenging task of counting things have raised suggestions that we
abandon such archaic notions as ballots, punches, and
pregnant chad and run the whole wahoolazuma via computer
next time because computers -- as any world-conquering AI
will tell you -- don't make mistakes.
Ah, but could an electronic ballot be clear and concise
enough even for a Floridan? Certainly, if we follow the
standards of uncluttered simplicity shown by such sites as,
oh, Am I Hot Or Not.
So, to give you a vision of what will almost definitely
be your future, we show you what the 2000 election could have been
like, if only people weren't so dumb:
Thanks to Ken Kaufman for inspiration.
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