Electronic Voting: Not Ready For Prime Time
Exhibit A:
Some Voting Machines Chop Off Candidates’ Names — washingtonpost.com
Exibit B:
Mailed Disks Raise Voting Machine Fears — washingtonpost.com
ABC News: Electronic Voting Machines Could Skew Elections
Exhibit C:
New Laws and Machines May Spell Voting Woes — New York Times
Exhibit D:
It’s encouraging that the mass media are perking up and taking note of what promises to be an at — best challgenging and at — worst democracy — defying election day. Sadly it’s too late to do anything more than knock on wood and cross our fingers.
The silver lining? If this shit really does blow up into a spectacular mess in two weeks, there might still be time to engineer and implement the kind of safe, easy and secure voting systems that Americans deserve — and should demand — by 2008.