Every vote counts.
One of the big lessons from the Florida vote fiasco is that the US must commit dollars to fix out-dated voting systems. The world's oldest modern democracy deserves better than punch-cards and mechanical levers as the means to choose leaders. The closeness of the Nov. 7 vote has already provided an impetus for several states to reform their voting process. Military encryption technology was used to prevent fraud and keep the confidentiality of the cyber-votes. Such a method builds on recent improvements made by e-tailers to use the Internet, such as in transmitting credit card numbers or even proxy votes by stockholders.