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NY Times Endorses Open-Source Election Software
jdauerbach writes "On its editorial page today, the New York Times called for election system reform, saying among other things that 'Congress should impose much more rigorous safeguards, including a requirement that all computer code be made public. It should require that all electronic machines produce a voter-verified paper trail.'"
Must have been a left wing conspiracy and it was successful. And I thought they really believed that sh!t they printed...
"The overall impact of getting away from the one-party-controls-all system we have at the moment will be a move back toward the center, where all the good compromising gets done. "
Actually, right now the Republican party _has_ been pulled to the center. The democratic party of JFK is actually a little to the right of mainstream Republicans.
Those of us on the right have been feeling the Republican party jump left for quite some time now.
The difference is that the democrats have been nearly entirely taken over by the radical left, who tend to make everyone seem more right-wing than they really are. This is what is causing Republicans to win elections. People who were strong democrats are abandoning ship because the Democratic party, at a national level, has shifted far, far away from where they used to be.
My grandparents are democrats, but that have voted Republican ever since Reagan. Many long-time democrats are seeing their party being taken over, and want out.
The democrats have completely alienated much of their base, and that is why the republicans have gotten so far ahead.
Engineering and the Ultimate