int main() - Washington State Election Issues and Solutions

The great state of Washington is having some issues with the election. Sill arguing about who won, what votes should and should not count and other silly things. The whole voting process is suspect and untrusted. Why hasn't technology come to the rescue?

It is the opinion of Edoceo that our State government has not done enough to instill trust in the process. Communications from our company President with State officials demonstrates this. An offer to work with the state to solve this issue was flatly rejected, without review. Neither party seems to want to solve this issue, it's just used as (weak) ammunition against the other. Quit bickering, quit fighting and give a reliable method of voting to the people.

Edoceo is a technology company that specializes in this type of odd, heated issue and we have a solution. The answer is simple: an accountable, reliable and transparent electronic voting machine. This would cover 100% of the votes for able bodied on-site voters, about 80% of the voters. The absentee and disabled voters would be the only groups originating their votes on paper. If 80% of the votes are recorded on a 100% reliable system then more focus can be given to the other 20% ensuring accuracy.

Currently the media and others claim that an electronic voting mechanism is "all bad"; these machines have had horrible numbers of bugs, data loss and other failures. While this is an issue that all software faces the public cannot afford to have low quality voting devices. Why have we not seen the creation of an accountable, reliable and secure system. With todays modern technology the solution is trivial.

Edoceo has created this system that effectively eleminates the possibility of vote fraud. Accountability, reliability, security and transparency issues are all addressed by the combination of hardware and software we have designed. No single point of failure, proof of vote, proof of record. Validation that the vote counts and was counted.

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