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Gore Vidal Savages Electronic Voting

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-to-think-about dept.

gribbly writes "aging author and social critic Gore Vidal savaged electronic voting in an interview with the LA Weekly. The interview deals mainly with (what's wrong with) the Bush Administration, but halfway down he says: 'We don't want an election without a paper trail...all three owners of the companies who make these machines are donors to the Bush administration. Is this not corruption?'."

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  1. A Republican agrees by mcg1969 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    OK, Gore Vidal is an idiot, and I'd pay no more attention to him than I would a Frenchman trying to "educate" me about how the U.S. ought to work.

    But despite my Republican affiliation and support for Bush, I agree that current electronic voting systems are shamefully flawed. The lack of a paper, human-readable ballot receipt prevents any sort of independent audit of the results to confirm their accuracy. And the various statements attributed to Diebold's C.E.O. about "delivering" the electoral vote to Bush is just ludicrious and rightfully cast serious doubts on his company's credibility in this arena.

    Electronic voting can be done right. But currently it is not...

  2. Re:How much press will it get, though? by the0ther · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Coming from someone that probably wasn't even born in the USA, I disregard this comment entirely. You even start with a bogus premise: that the American media is not Democrat biased. Did you know that 90% of the people you see on CNN, CBS, ABC, and NBC news broadcasts...all of those toadies vote Democrat. Don't tell me that those people are just news-readers either.