Online activists are innefectual at affecting convenional wisdom without institutional hooks. This is clearly true.

Those hooks are not going to be developed in time to meaningfully impact the 2006 elections. It's time to start looking at what will actually make a big difference for real hacktivists.

For these and other reasons I don't have time to explain right now, I've come to the conclusion that some tech-savvy activists should hack the vote in 2006 as an act of civil disobedience to force meaningful reform of the electoral system. It seems to me that this is the best possible use resources.

Gut reactions?