The New York Times deems to recognize that it just might not be such a great idea to rely on so many untested electronic voting machines created by private, partisan companies using uninspected software with no way to validate the results.
Appropriately enough for The Times their James Fallows column is found on their “Business Section – YOUR MONEY – TECHNO FILES” page of tomorrow’s paper.
Not much new offered, just the fact itself that The Times is willing to talk about these issues at all is what’s most notable here. A sample…
Is that a problem because the chief executive of Diebold, the largest maker of such systems, is a prominent Republican partisan? No. It’s a problem because it defies the check-and-balance logic built into every other electronic transaction.
Very good. Now what are you willing to do, NY Times, to check-and-balance what these computers did not in this year’s election? Anything more than simply talking about it?
Click here to send an email asking them to do so if you haven’t already!
(Thanks Desi for the link!)
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