John Kerry Wises Up
Senator Kerry was in Iowa today campaigning for President for Michael Mauro. I heard Kerry on the radio this afternoon warning against paperless voting. He was citing the Princeton hack of Diebold’s paperless wonder.
I raised the paperless voting issue with Kerry myself in 2003 at a reception in Spencer one night after he had been to the Clay county fair. His answer was that I shouldn’t worry about election mismanagement because he planned to have attorneys at polls everywhere if he became the candidate in 2004.
Well, he did become the candidate and he did have a fleet of attorneys working for him. But his answer was ignorant–as if any attorney could tell whether the voting machine was working honestly or not! Typical lawyer arrogance, I thought.
Of course, at the time no Ivy League university had weighed in regarding voting machines. The cries of “Wolf” were coming only from the boondocks: U of Iowa, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Rice—you know, not places Kerry ever heard of.
October 10th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
Electronic voting without any ability to review code is an electoral crime. Whenever I bring up such crimes they always comment that ballot stuffing, in some form or another, has been a part of democracy. These are the same people who claim to be optimists. It seems a bit foolish to be optimistic about a system with such a terrible flaw.
To prevent any further misdeeds in electoral politics, progressive leaders must place respectable people in the role of secretary of state. This is the ring-leader for each state. J. Kenneth Blackwell and Kathy Harris deserved MVP for both Bush wins.