"...In normal times there are glitches in voting. But the situation we are now in is both dangerous and absurd. It needs to be reported everywhere. These shouldn't be one-day stories and they shouldn't be series left to fill a few pages and disappear. They should be regular beats. Good models are Olbermann, for how to make stories lively, and The Times's editorial page, for ideas...
...Some good reporting now could bring integrity to voting and help make it more tamper-proof..."
...There
, 52 counties tallied their votes using paper ballots that were then optically scanned by machines produced by Diebold, Sequoia, or Election Systems and Software. 29 of those Florida counties had large Democratic majorities among registered voters (as high a ratio as Liberty County — Bristol, Florida and environs — where it’s 88 percent Democrats, 8 percent Republicans) but produced landslides for President Bush. On Countdown, we cited the five biggest surprises (Liberty ended Bush: 1,927; Kerry: 1,070), but did not mention the other 24."
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