correspondent rym uncle and joe things all right everyone were less than five weeks away from election day and you know most of us when we go to the polls will vote on a touch screen voting machine we finish up and we leave with no receipt no proof that who we voted for is counted so we can we take a look at the election system from a technology standpoint and ask this question how free and how fair our elections are to correspond on a saucy a chair going to take a deeper look. the u.s. a beacon of democracy and an example to be followed by the rest of the world one big source of pride is its fundamental concept of free and fair elections american elections are a disgrace it's like looking into the kitchen of a first class restaurant and losing an appetite at what you see because we have an election system a voting system that is completely nontransparent an opinion shared by many political experts and educators if you were to hair. in a magician suit and went behind a curtain came out having first read the ballots to tell you who won would you trust that process and that process large