Congrats to New York Times for their Wednesday editorial slamming the ES&S takeover of Diebold’s election division (which, if allowed by federal regulators to go through, would give a single private company sole control of some 70% of the votes in this country’s once-public elections).
While the Times has editorialized on the dangers of this horrific merger in the past, as I recall, and appropriately so, the reason they are due congrats this time around is because they’ve managed to write an entire editorial focused on the e-voting menace without once tossing in the deceptive phrase “paperless electronic voting machines” (as if “paperless” e-voting systems are any less of a threat to our democracy than the same wholly-unverifiable voting machines which offer an entirely useless so-called “paper trail”).
I believe that’s a first! So, waytago NYTimes! Before you know it, they may eventually even use the phrase: “paper ballot”!
Off-topic but of interest: Keith Ellison goes for national same-day voter registration.
http://minnesotaindependent.com/48416/elliso-same-day-voter-registration
Editorial page talks progressive while the News Pages don’t cover the story or get it wrong and are mostly stooges for the Corporate State.
The Old Gray Lady Ain’t What She Used to Be.
Imagine.
One day (in the (far, far away) future), the so-called “paper of record” might be able to report that once again, the US had a reliable system of vote verifications.
Imagine.
Impossible!
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