Excuses, excuses.
Jeanne D'Arc at Body and Soul (and her commenters!) dissect Diebold.
Has anyone noticed that the defense of electronic voting machines seems to have moved in a new direction? We started with the "don't worry your pretty little heads" argument, implying that only paranoids and conspiracy nuts worried about twenty percent of Americans -- and more in a few key states -- voting in this year's presidential election on machines that offered no hard evidence that the votes cast were the ones counted, and that denied voters the possibility of a recount in a close election (which this one almost certainly will be). Unfortunately for the makers of electronic voting machines, a lot of the critics were disappointingly sane, downright reliable, in fact. And after big problems with the machines in recent primary elections in both California and Florida, even people who don't really care that much about this kind of stuff are starting to notice.
