On elections and democracy in the digital age
When I voted for the first time in 1988, I also seized an opportunity to volunteer at our local polling place to help count ballots. Living in a very small town that hadn’t yet purchased any kind of voting machine, we hand counted the ballots. Our Town Clerk viewed it as an outdated method, and she joked with me that, when I got older, I probably would be one of the few remaining people who…