No one seems to care that machines are brainless. Why?

After the hanging chads farce of 2000, when George W Bush stole the presidential election from Al Gore, with a great deal of help from his brother, Jeb Bush, who was Governor of Florida at the time, there is great glee that the Bushes have been humiliated this time. If Bush was ditched by the people, as an establishment candidate and the third member of the same family to stand for president, then it is not surprising that Hillary Clinton is also profoundly disliked by voters. In fact, Hillary Clinton only managed to defeat Bernie Sanders in the primaries because of dirty tricks by the Democratic Party machine and Convention Chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to step down. Now Sanders is trying to defeat Schultz in her primary in Florida. And we thought that our lot are the most corrupt in the world. So, if the Democrats rigged the primaries in favor of Clinton can they, will they, dare to tinker with the actual elections in November. After all, they are still smarting from the loss in 2000, with some justification, and a Democrat, Barack Obama is in the White House, and he desperately needs Clinton, to protect his tatty legacy, just as Clinton needs his soaring rhetoric to mesmerise the people. Andrew Appel, a Professor at Princeton, shows how easy it will be to hack into the voting machines. The manufacturers threatened Appel with lawsuits but he carried on his work quietly. Having invested millions of dollars on the machines governments in states started a process of giving printed receipts to voters. Now some states are going back to paper ballots, but the voter registration lists can still be hacked. That brings us to the most frightening thought of all, there is enormous enthusiasm for cars, trucks, trains, and maybe even aircraft without human control. What if any one of them is hacked and used for bad deeds, as happened in France last month. In India, where the majority of people are illiterate, there is an enormous faith in computers, encouraged by politicians, as some sort of divine intervention, which is completely infallible. We have hand held electronic devices, on which you press a button against the person you support. Very easy. Tell people not to come, or else, and then goons vote instead of the people. We are being seduced with the advantages of digital banking and how that will cut out all black money. Guess what? Ross Clark in the UK thinks that cashless society will give too much power to the banks to increase charges on customers. In India, our fear is that the government will be able to monitor every movement that everyone makes. We will be puppets in the hands of politicians, civil servants and police. Terrifying thought. India will probably return empty-handed from the Olympics. Why? The malign influence of politicians and civil servants. Simple. Implement Lodha Committee recommendations for all sports. The good thing is, everyone dies in the end.