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OpinionBaltimore Sun (September 7, 2007)What's the rush?"We applaud the effort under way in Congress to increase confidence in the integrity of voting machines used around the country, but draw no comfort from a mandate that Maryland and five other states would have a year or less to replace the expensive equipment just recently purchased." New York Times (September 6, 2007)A Chance to Make Votes Count"The United States Congress has a chance to take a big step toward reassuring Americans that the votes they cast on Election Day will not be lost or stolen. The House is considering a bill sponsored by Rush Holt, Democrat of New Jersey, that could come to a vote as soon as today that would make electronic voting both more reliable and less prone to fraud." New York Times (February 5, 2007)Good Election News From Florida"Florida, famous for doing so much wrong in its elections, is poised to take two very important right steps. First, Gov. Charlie Crist says he plans to end the use of touch-screen voting machines that do not produce a paper record." New York Times (January 8, 2007)Testing the Testers"There is by now no doubt that there are serious problems with electronic voting machines: they fail to record votes, and even flip votes from one candidate to another. Election officials like to defend the machines by noting that they have been certified by independent testing labs. But the certification process has long been deeply flawed, and last week there was even more disturbing news — that the leading testing lab has been unable to meet the federal government’s standards . . ." Orlando Sentinel (December 24, 2006)Drop touch-screens"Nothing is more sacred or vital to the survival of democracy than the ability to cast a vote with the confidence that vote will be counted accurately. And yet the very foundation of this principle was shaken by the fiasco in Sarasota County on Nov. 7, when ATM-styled touch-screen machines showed more than 18,000 voters made no choice in one of the most hotly contested congressional races in the country. . ." New Your Times (December 11,2006)The Road to
Reliable Elections
"Two
influential federal advisory groups have added their voices to an emerging
national consensus that voting machines must produce a voter-verified paper
record if they are to be trusted. . ."
Washington Post Op-Ed (October 10, 2006)A
Vote We Can Believe In
By E. J. Dionne Jr. Sometimes, paranoids are right. And sometimes even when paranoids are wrong, it's worth considering what they're worried about. . . |
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