Note From Jim

Dear Friends,

My brother Jim is Vice President and General Manager of KOLD TV in Tucson AZ. He does a weekly editorial on the air. I am sending along once of his previously aired Something To Think About.

I thought this was kind of interesting and timely given election season is upon us. The only thing the new computer election technology does is confuse the old folks in Florida and cost a lot of money. Could old technology actually be new technology?

A Waste Of Technology!

Jim Arnold

KOLD News 13 General Manager Jim Arnold

I understand county elections results will come to us slower this year because of computer hacker potential. The county is afraid that a hacker might invade the system and change results. So, the outlying areas will now drive the computer results to the election center instead of electronically sending them.

That causes me to wonder what would happen if someone picks the locks on the lock box during the drive in from Ajo?

Government at all levels is spending millions on technology to track voting, only to be paranoid about hackers and to fight over hanging chads.

Here's Something To Think About": Do we need election technology? Elections are one day a year at most. How about each precinct counting paper ballots, checked by party representatives, and then turned in to a central location? This system worked for decades. Even Centuries. And the costs are minimal. What a concept.