From Tribune Media Services’ Robert Koehler, in his latest column, “Electronic Treason”…
Surely there ought to be a limit to the number of egregiously wrong turns the same ideologues are allowed to make at one time.
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A year and a half ago, when I first started writing about disenfranchisement and the troubling evidence of electronic voting fraud in the 2004 election, this was not a respectable topic for mainstream discourse. Those who broached it were relegated to a spectrum of mockery that ran from “sore loser” to “conspiracy nut.” But the ongoing horror show of “glitches” perpetrated on democracy by touchscreen voting machines this year can no longer be ignored even by those who would prefer to, and e-voting disasters are now being reported with some regularity.
We feel ya, Bob. And thanks for being there where few dared to go back in those dark days of mid-2005.
Read the rest at Koehler’s own site or at Huff Po.
Great article. If we ever get our democracy back, Koehler will have a guaranteed job in a free press.
CMSM dives into the issue of electronic voting machines, with the Demos now in the majority our voting system will now come under a state of flux, change, and review.
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The New York Times delves into the issue with an extensive article. A discussion of Rep. Rush D. Holt Jr. (D-NJ) cherished solution of EVM touch screens with a paper trail is a topic in the article among a slew of other changes we will likely see coming to the HAVA revisions brought to the process after 2000.
Link to NYT EVM article
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From the web blog, Raising Kaine,
“….. readers know all too well the problems that have been experienced nationwide with electronic, paperless voting machines. A postal regulator has proposed that we should move to voting by mail. Ruth Goldway, a Commissioner at the Postal Rate Commission, gives lots of good reasons for the switch in this New York Times op-ed. Reciting some of the problems in the last election cycle, she states: “There was, however, one state where all went well: Oregon, where everyone votes by mail.”
Link to above article