N.Y. Times A Tale of Three (Electronic Voting) Elections

[Botany]

Next up from the Times; Lindbergh Flies Across the Ocean.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/opinion/31observer.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print

Georgia 2002 (Cleland), Alabama 2002 (Siegelman), & Florida 2006 (Jennings)

Funny I have read all about the stories covered in the Times on D.U. years ago :rofl:

<Electronic voting has made great strides in reliability, but it has a long way to go. When reformers push for
greater safeguards, they often argue that future elections could produce the wrong result because of a computer
glitch or be stolen through malicious software. That’s being too nice.

There have already been elections in which it is impossible to be certain that the right candidate was declared the
winner. Here are three such races. It is not just remarkable that these elections were run so badly, but also that the
flaws are still common — and could easily create havoc in this fall’s voting.

snip

After the 2000 election debacle, Americans demanded a better system of voting. What we have gotten is new technology
with different flaws. If the presidential race is close, this year’s “hanging chad” could be a questionable result on electronic
voting machines that cannot be adequately investigated.>

[mod mom]

1. Better luck to you here. I have no comments w it on ER.

I'm thankful it's getting out to a larger audience. Isn't Adam Cohen (author) the dude * called a number one asshole?

oops..on edit it was "major league asshole" BUT Adam Clymer

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/bushcuss.asp