Reply #45: Excellent Editorial [View All]

[riqster]

Nice to see some common sense breaking out. A few snips from this well-written editorial (I recommend reading the entire piece):

"And many activists want courtroom-level proof. And they deserve it -- or something close. We live in an era in which partisans on each side believe that the other side is capable of out-and-out theft. Proving that theft didn't occur should be a routine part of elections -- all elections, all the time. "

"Why not count the votes? And thanks to Kucinich, that's what will likely happen now. It will probably take some time; weeks, if not months. But soon, we'll know what happened.

But as many voting-reform experts have argued, manually counting the votes should be a routine in any race. There are logistical reasons why it would be impractical to hand count every vote in every election. But if we're going to use machines -- optical-scan machines that use paper ballots, that is; touch-screen machines everywhere ought to be burned -- we should, at least, conduct a randomized, accountant-approved audit of ballots."