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Senators Clinton and Kerry Submit Open Voting Bill
An anonymous reader writes "DailyKos is reporting that a group of senators and representatives including Hillary Clinton, John Kerrry, and Tubbs Jones, have proposed an 'open-source' voting bill. This bill (The Count Every Vote Act of 2005) corrects many of the problems in the last election. Notably, it requires paper receipts, and that the source and object code of all electronic voting machines to be open and readable by the public. " Commentary on the bill available at the Miami Herald.
Kerry and Clinton are pushing for this not because it's in the public interest, but because they still believe "We were robbed!" They think the Republicans did a better job of cheating on the last two elections than the Democrats did and want to eliminate the possibility of it happening again. They can't admit to themselves that enough people either liked what the Republicans said or disliked what the Democrats said to change the outcome of the election. As long as they fail to learn from the past, they will continue to make the same mistakes over and over and become less of an influence on American politics. This is not a good thing. America needs two parties that are fairly well balanced to keep one party from complete domination of the nation.
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How, exactly, is the parent Offtopic? For crying out loud, the story goes out of it's way to mention that Kerry and Clinton are behind the bill, speculating as to their motives doesn't seem Offtopic to me. If the post had been critical of President Bush, the parent would have been modded up as Insightful instead.