>Breaking News: Republicans Want You To Vote Like It's 1822. Fuck Technology - It's Unreliable.
Paul Krugman takes on the guaranteed republic-destroying issue of electronic voting in his column in the NYT today.
https://an-age-like-this.blogspot.com/2004/01/krugman-on-e-voting-paul-krugman-takes.html
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/wp/paul-krugman-in-the-ny-times-on-the-dangers-of-electronic-voting-without-a-paper-trail/
The United States is the only major democracy that allows private partisan corporations to secretly count and tabulate the votes with proprietary non-transparent software. Rev. Jesse Jackson, among others, has asserted that "public elections must not be conducted on privately-owned machines."
But the GAO report now confirms that electronic voting machines as deployed in 2004 were in fact perfectly engineered to allow a very small number of partisans with minimal computer skills and equipment to shift enough votes to put George W. Bush back in the White House.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paging-frank-rich-gao-con_b_11483