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In an editorial for Thursday’s paper<\/a>, the New York Times<\/i> has finally called for an all-out ban on touch-screen voting machines.<\/p>\nWriting that “electronic voting has been an abysmal failure,” the newspaper of record — which has been an abysmal failure, overall, in investigating and reporting on election-related issues over the past many years — opines in favor of the flawed Rush Holt Election Reform Bill, though aptly declares that “The bill lacks one important thing: a ban on touch-screen voting machines.”<\/p>\n
They add that “there is still time before the bill becomes law to add a ban on touch-screen voting” and that scheduling such changes for 2012 is “too long to wait.”<\/p>\n
Here are the grafs that the Times<\/i> gets almost exactly right [emphasis ours<\/em>]:<\/p>\n There is still time before the bill becomes law to add a ban on touch-screen voting.<\/strong> If the House fails to do so, the Senate should, and it should fight for it to be in the final bill.<\/p>\n There has been a spirited debate about how quickly to require reforms to be implemented. There have been calls for putting a solution off until 2012. That is too long to wait.<\/strong><\/div>\n Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but what took you so long, New York Times<\/i>? But never mind that. The question now is: What is taking Congress<\/em> — specifically Congressional Democrats<\/em> — so long?<\/p>\n