HW 30: What kind of democracy do we want?

Yesterday I attended a citizenship symposium at Keene State College, the main speaker of this event talked about Democracy, and what kind of democracy we wanted in the U.S today. The talk was basically about democracy. It started with her explaining herself, where she was from, which is Lexington, MA (the birthplace of American liberty). She then took us to even further back into history and started talking about Moses, I was actually confused as to why she brought up Moses, why? She basically said that 'Distrust' was what everything that had to do with democracy was based on.The only thing she said was "democracy is based on distrust." with no further explanation. I sat there and tried to understand what she meant by this, but got really confused as to what 'distrust' actually was, and what it had to do with democracy. She never really defined the word, and just expected everyone to understand how it had to deal with the topic of her speech. An interesting fact I learned through going to this was that who is really counting our votes when we go to the polls. That it's not the people voting that make a difference, it was the the people counting the votes. I also learned about Secret Vote Counting Software and that Nationally 80% of states do this, and in New Hampshire alone, 81% of people do this. It was interesting when she brought the audience into it and asked for a raise of hands who thought this software should be used and only one raised their hands.