You Have the Right to Vote!!!

We as American citizens are given the right to vote. It is announced in the Constitution of the United States of America. So what do our days of voting look like? Signs everywhere stating “Vote for…”, bumper stickers supporting a candidate’s name, and people on their way in the door to vote. Once you are in the room, and you walk up to the machine, you place your vote electronically, and then leave. You probably don’t think anything else about it. It goes smoothly. Watch the video below, and see if you still think it’s all smooth.

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Commercials have told us time and time again that our votes count. They tell us we are important. According to the video above, our votes do count, but are they counting in our favor or against us?
Some of the problems with these machines are that they are being manipulated by hackers. This problem is the company’s fault. They created this machine to conduct a very important task such as determining the United States President, and they aren’t making it secure enough to block hackers from breaking the system and changing votes.
There are other problems with these machines that aren’t being caused by hackers, but are the ballot machine company’s fault. According to The Sun Journal’s very own P. Christine Smith‘s article, Voter Reports Problem with Ballot Machine, there was an incident where a man chose to vote for all the republicans on the ballot and when he selected that option, the monitor displayed that he had selected all the candidates of the opposite party; he then tried again, asking for assistance on the third and fourth try, but every time, the vote was the same (par. 1-3). This means that the machine was changing his vote without his request. The machine was messing with his choices.
How many other votes were miscalculated? Did your vote count? Who is to blame?
I might not know the answer to the first two, but I do know who’s fault it was. It was the ballot machine company’s fault. They are not making machines that are reliable for the system they were so carefully created for. Did we choose our president, or did the machine?