My Biggest Election Year Fear

Don't miss this editorial by Paul Krugman regarding the threat of paperless electronic voting.  Nothing worries me more than the threat of electronic voting with no paper trail, and nothing convinces me more that something is wrong with it than the stonewalling being done by Republican politicians (most notoriously Jeb Bush) whenever a call is made to do something about them.  It's a simple formula:  it's been determined beyond a doubt that electronic voting machines are faulty and that they can be easily manipulated by a third party with even a modicum of computer knowledge, and there are even now documented cases of just this very thing occurring.  It would therefore seem to be a no-brainer that everyone on both sides of the political fence would have an inherent interest in seeing that something is done about these machines.  And yet, for some reason, it is always Democrats that are calling for something to be done about them, and Republicans that keep saying either that a)there isn't enough time to do anything, or b)that nothing needs to be done.   

Remember that song, Things That Make You Go Hmmm.....?

There is also, of course, the rather more straightforward evidence of the well-known declaration by Walden O'Dell, the very Republican CEO of Diebold - an Ohio-based company that is one of the major makers of electronic-voting machines - that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president." 

One would like to imagine that Republicans would like to prove that they can win a Presidential election fair and square, without putting a fix on the process.  But then again....

maybe not.