Jonathan Raban Quotes
Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.
Raban, Jonathan. Driving Home: An American Journey. Pantheon Books, 2011.
“Vote counting” is done in legislative bodies like Congress by the party leadership, often called the “whip”. The purpose is to determine how many votes they will likely get for a particular piece of legislation. It involved determining and predicting how each member of the legislative body will vote for each variation of a bill and each amendment that has been offered. Paxon himself was one of the Congressmen responsible for doing this for the Republicans when he was in the Congress. . See {624235} for more on vote counting.
Without a paper trail, there is no way to audit an election to prove that there ahs not been any tamering with the vote counting, the machines that do the counting or the processes of aggregating the results of all the machines in a state ort other election district. Without a hard copy paper trail, there is no way to be certain that some of the voting or aggregating machines had not been hacked and manipualted.
Jonathan Raban is a British travel writer, critic, and novelist. He has received several awards, such as the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and a 1997 Washington State Governor's Writer's Award. Since 1990 he has lived with his daughter in Seattle. In 2003, his novel Waxwings was long listed for the Man Booker Prize.
