As noted below, we've been covering the flaws of electronic voting for almost two years. The bottom line: There has to be a paper audit, a verifiable way to check votes against the voters. Without a paper trail, so much speculation about a candidate winning on falsified ballots or hacked machines is just that--raw speculation. And speculation is rampant in the left blogosphere, with Voteproject.org's
tabulating nearly 30,000 examples of voting problems around the country. Salon.com's Farhad Manjoo has a
(you'll need to sit through the ad) that, while challenging Democrats who believe fraudulent votes put Bush back in the White House, provides this important caveat by David Dill, a leading critic of the paperless systems we've reported on:
We agree. We keep our bank statements in a file cabinet if we ever need to dispute our bank; we should have the same protection for our votes.
