Like Florida, But Worse
Your jefftidball.com required reading for the day is "How They Could Steal the Election This Time," an article in The Nation about the very real possibility that a massive election disaster will occur in November due to new direct recording electronic voting systems. Thanks to Eric Lichtenfeld for bring the article to our collective jefftidballdotcomland attention.
Comments
Good Lord, that's chilling. (And I already knew it was bad.) Yikes. I guess we all have to sign up to vote by absentee ballot.
Thanks, Eric and Jeff.
I would suggest reading this article like a stock analyst's report - read the facts and skip the commentary.
The issue, it seems to me, is a simple and non-partisan one. Whatever voting system is used, errors will occur, and there must be a reasonably reliable method to verify the results. Most direct recording voting systems seem to fail this test.
The author, I think, weakens the argument on this point by straying into other matters.