Earlier I posted on to possible decertification of some HartIntercivic electronic voting machines in Colorado.  HartIntercivic is the same company that provides Peoria and Peoria County with their voting equipment.  As I stated in that post, I have been weary of electronic voting on the whole and there has been several Internet articles on how the integrity can/has been compromised on some of the systems.  Tom Bride, executive director for the City of Peoria Election Commission commented on my last post and invited me to check out the Hart system.  I took him up on his offer.  What I was really impressed about was how Tom makes sure the election commission is open to the people.

…Unless you are a Democrat.  Then only your vote counts!

What I’m talking about is the recently passed law (HB1685) that joins Illinois in with other states to elect the President by national popular vote.  This would effectively eliminate the purpose of the electoral college system.  Many will of course think this is great, many won’t even care, while others are left to ask why does it matter.

I haven’t been blogging lately because I’ve still been busy with the holiday stuff.  We had a few Christmas celebrations and then immediately following a few birthdays.  My birthday was also last week.  For those wondering, I am now constitutionally legal to be President of the United States.

I have a virus that has been kicking my butt.  It has screwed up my registry and I have been trying to fix it.  I can now log on and launch a few select programs.  It looks like I will be reloading as soon as I can back up my files.  Posting will be light as our other computer is normally occupied by family members.