<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">It is unfair perhaps for me to comment. I don't</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">imagine having a horse in the race. However,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">I would like to draw attention to the idea of critical</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">application software and its place in our culture since</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">the Apollo missions. Applications with respect to</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">military drones, nuclear power plants, hospital equipment,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">telecommunications, and the like. Perhaps, we as our own</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">special breed of democratic society do not hold elections</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">to be of the same criticality. Perhaps, we as a culture do</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">not hold sanctity in elections to be necessary. Is this possible?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Jonathan Zingale</div></div>