General access to electronic networks contains both threats and promises to the American elections process. This mob is called a democracy , and it is what our founding fathers were guarding against when they designed our federal government. They designed a system of parts, in which each of the parts are so busy fighting with each other that they don't have time to make trouble for the rest of the country. It keeps the government out of our hair. When we don't have gridlock, we have higher taxes, more red tape, and bigger bureaucracies.
Gridlock is in our best interest.
That's why it was put into the system in the first place. The Internet provides a means to add a new part to our system of checks and balances. Along with the legislative branch, the judicial branch, and the executive branch can be added the people themselves. Imagine, when computers and net connections become as widespread as telephones and automobiles, that the public must then approve of all new laws once the president signs them. For any law to become a law, at least, say, two-thirds of the electorate must approve.