Please check out my new piece I filed today at Slate headlined “The Faith-Based Vote.” As it’s not necessarily about what some may think, I’ll note their sub-title: “In many of Tuesday’s closes races, states will use those same old, suspect voting machines.”
The article details the 100% unverifiable voting systems which will be used to report the “winners” and “losers” of some of the closest and most-watched elections across the country next Tuesday.
Please feel free to leave comments there, Tweet it, Reddit it, Digg it, share it on Facebook and otherwise help them to feel good about carrying more such coverage. Thanks!
UPDATE 10/28/10: Dan Rather describes my Slate piece as “Fascinating (and scary)”. Thank you, sir. And for your own similarly fascinating and scary work on these same issues.
I submitted to Reddit Brad. Great job on the article. Let’s keep spreading this into the news.
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/dxse9/the_faithbased_vote_in_many_of_tuesdays_closest/
Brad Friedman, you deserve a great deal of thanks for everything you have done over so many years to help publicize and document the dangers of hackable and unverifiable electronic voting machines, inaccurate electronic vote counting systems, and numerous other questionable election practices that have evidently been occurring without sufficient remedial actions for several years all over the country. While previously such incidences and problems with electronic voting systems seemed to have almost exclusively benefited only Republican candidates, it is noteworthy that you have continued to expose such problems even when they are now appearing in some places to be benefiting other political parties such as the Democrats. It should be abundantly clear by now to every reasonable person that allowing use of such unverifiable and hackable electronic voting systems not only increases the risks of criminal or negligent violations of specific State and federal election laws, but also necessarily violates the due process requirements of our Constitution.
Don Farkas –
Your comments are greatly appreciated. Thank you, sir.