Somebody has finally looked at the track record of Diebold voting machines
and it certainly wasn't a US paper. It's funny how the national press has been reluctant to look closely at election results for the last three years or so. I will concede that state-level coverage isn't always as bad - I thought that the Minnesota press did a decent job of looking at the actual post-election voting numbers last November. Fat lot of good that will do us when the numbers are generated by crappy programs written by Republicans, though. I'm very pleased that much of the country will not be afflicted with these touch-screen fraud machines; Minnesota has had OCR for years and will hold onto it, and Massachusetts recently evaluated the available technology and picked OCR. Short of outright corruption, one wonders why other states could possibly be choosing touch screens over alternative technologies that leave a paper trail.
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