Reply #24: No, the problem with metaphor

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is that it doesn't necessarily tell you anything. Saying HR550 is bad because it involves knee-bends tells me zilch.

So thanks for the translation (I think).

But I'm not sure I accept your premise/frame. HR550 would seem to clarify, not create or change, the nature of the vote (to which American citizens have a right). It rules that "ballot" must be a voter-verified, manually recountable piece of paper, and cannot be mere "electrons" as you so eloquently put it elsewhere. Not only that, but it declares that elections must be subject to random manual audit. In other words, the bill makes it it illegal to elect a winner unless there has been a rather powerful check as to whether the election was actually conducted fairly, or to conduct an election in which that check, or other still more powerful checks, cannot be conducted.

Are you saying that legislation cannot do this? If so, why not?