There were 5 letters regarding their story "Count Every Vote" from 12/20. Here are portions from 2 of them. OK so they're not on the front page where they belong, but at least that are being printed AND there's evidence of a "buzz" in the air ...
Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/26/opinion/l26vote.html?ex=1105087951&ei=1&en=55f985c2038dc85bFrom Op-Ed Letter # 1:
"As virtually every independent study of the new machines used in Ohio, Florida and across the country concluded, the deeper problem with electronic voting is the untrustworthiness and corruptibility of the software - software designed by partisan companies and, astonishingly, protected by copyright law.
As demonstrated in Ohio and elsewhere, people with access to the machines, and the proper motivation, can change the election result. Paper trail or no paper trail, until this problem is confronted, an election conducted on electronic voting machines, including the one this November, is not to be trusted."
Joseph Urla
New York, Dec. 20, 2004
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From Letter # 3:
"Finally, there should be serious criminal consequences to anyone violating the voting rights of an American citizen.
With the current systematic control over the vote, we are in very real danger of losing our democracy."
David MacEnulty
Bronx, Dec. 20, 2004
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AND ---CHECK OUT THIS ONE- Letter #5!!
"There are serious charges that voters in Ohio were systematically disenfranchised by violations of state and federal voting laws through, among other things, manipulation of the vote tabulator by a representative of the company that created the software.
Our American press, inexplicably, has been thunderously silent.
The Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee have been conducting hearings into many of these problems. There is a likelihood that the report of the presidential electors from Ohio, due on Jan. 6 to Congress, will be challenged.
The list of what should be blockbuster media stories is long and growing. But these stories are not out there. As a result, most Americans don't know as much about serious, credible charges of the theft of democracy as about what happened in Ukraine."
William F. Hewitt
New York, Dec. 20, 2004
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