Larry’s Pick: Losing Your Democracy Can Be Funny

This video from The Onion proves it. You’ll notice the voting machine in the piece is the very one most Utahns will be using until we get informed enough to toss them in the Great Salt Lake and save millions of dollars in the process.

I can dream.

This is not the first time Diebold machines have been used in a comedy sketch. In fact, Letterman, Colbert, Maher, Stewart and many others were getting laughs for years before Utah’s top election officials got excited as a child in a toy store and spent their multi-million dollar allowance in an action that would disappoint any parent, but apparently not the taxpayers.

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