Does the American media care at all about fair voting?

BBC Newsnight just had a piece on the possible voting problems in November, inspired by the US Commission on Civil Rights' report in early April. It was partly about Black Box Voting, but also voter registration, identification and so on. I thought I'd see what the American media has said about the report. The total number of hits in Google News? 8, including such giants as the Baxter Bulletin, AR. And then you find one of the other papers was the British Independent - which someone linked to here on DU earlier. Oh, and there was a Fox News story a few days before the report - claiming everything was going to be fine, and that the Democrats are paranoid (I'm not paraphrasing - it really does).

This almost seems a bigger story in Britain than the US - and to be honest, we Brits cover it largely for schadenfreude - Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight snidely suggested pencil and paper, after pointing out that the US had once put men on the moon. How have none of the major networks covered this - and hardly any of the big newspapers?

Video of the BBC piece is available here (Real Player); it starts at 37:37 into the video. The video will only be available for the next 20 hours or so.

I did enjoy this bit from the interview with the Chairperson of the Commission:

Jeremy Paxman: ... perhaps I'm being unduly cynical in wondering whether, having been the beneficiary of this chaos last time, the White House is somehow therefore not so keen to do what you say is absolutely urgently needed, which is a pretty wholesale reform of the mechanism for voting? Whose fault is it?

Dr. Mary Frances Berry: Well, you can't really say that it's the fault of the White House, although I'm sure they don't like being reminded about the way Mr. Bush got selected as opposed to elected- I'm sure they don't like that. But it's the responsibility of the states ...

If their ox gets gored, bam! "Oh, now we get it!"

Spread the word: some hackers are Democrats. Got that Repubs?

Better go for paper ballots, eh?

I think the NY Times editorial page has a decent amount of coverage of voting issues.

The NY Times categorizes them as a "Making Votes Count" series.

Other newspapers I'm familiar with don't give voting issues enough coverage (Washington Post, LA Times-a little coverage, not enough).

Fuck no!

...fascist stooges:wtf: