This evening the new American Idol, Taylor Hicks, was crowned. More remarkable was the fact that 63 million votes were tallied and ready less than 24 hours later. The host of the show made mention that this is more votes than for any US president in history. What he failed to mention was that in presidential elections, we are (typically) only allowed to vote ONCE. I seriously doubt that 63 individuals voted in that election. (My wife and I were unable to vote because our 11-year-old daughter was playing softball, and she is the only one who knows how to text the vote!)
Meanwhile back in Arkansas, one county had some trouble with their new voting machines and ended up having to hand-count each ballot; they were expected to finish up sometime this evening. Not being real handy with numbers, I am still going to jump out on a limb and guess that the votes in that county will come in somewhere UNDER 63 million votes.
Even still, why is it that Hollywood and one accounting firm can tabulate this many votes in less than 24 hours but a government cannot manage a mid-term election vote tally? Is it the machines? Is it technology? Is it the expense of machines and technology? Or could it be that this accounting firm was under the gun of perhaps not being paid until the vote was final AND under threat of never again getting a chance to work for this TV show? Hmmm.
Just wondering.
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I'm proud to say that I've never wanted a single episode of American Idol. And never will.
Too bad. There were rabbits.
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