Why Do Elections Officials Always Seem To Side With E-Voting Companies Over Voter Concerns?
3rd August 2007
Techdirt. An excellent question. Pardon my cynicism, but I can think of a number of sordid possibilities.
For those unfamiliar with the subject, here are the priorities of a typical bureaucrat:
- Keeping my job. (Not doing my job, but keeping my job.)
- Keeping my boss happy.
- Keeping my friends happy, preferably by giving them government jobs too.
- Keeping my boss’s friends happy.
- Keeping the politician we all work for happy.
- Keeping happy the people who give money make sure that the politician we all work for keeps his job.
- Keeping happy the people who rally blocs of dimwitted but nevertheless voting public to make sure that the politician we all work for keeps his job.
- Any step necessary to get me a better (i.e. same work, more money) job.
- Keeping the people who agree with me politically happy.
You will note that “taxpayers” and “the public interest” have no place on the list.