Good News, Everybody!

California pimp-slaps Diebold. Electronic voting, they way Diebold does it, is some scary, scary stuff. It's important to have a paper record, don't you think?

If you want some scary reading on electronic voting, go to blackboxvoting.org and do some looking around.

It's my opinion that vote-counting should be done by people. Nearly all of us learn to count, and thus the system is independently verifiable by almost everyone in the country. However, verifying votes electronically places the veracity of our election results in the hands of a very few individuals with the proper training--more importantly, it places those results in the hands of the bosses of those few with proper training.