It has begun. The "heal the nation" crowd is going to be really upset about this if it turns out that Gore got more votes. Even though the republicans will be screaming "MISCHIEF" from the roof-tops at every recount, I think it will have a profound effect on people and put extreme pressure on the congress to totally overhaul the election process if Gore turns out to have been the winner in Florida.

It would be truly pathetic if the US Government couldn't simply pass a bill in January calling for appropriations to local govenments for the sole purpose of buying something like this. It's from an American company. If every county in America isn't using either this or one of Diebold's competitor's machines in two years, it will be a signal that the government is broken for at least another generation. Not just the federal government either, people need to hound their state governments about these things. Also, poorer counties can now use the Supreme Court's extraordinary overreaching decision in Bush v. Gore to file equal protection violations to get themselves the machines.
- posted by levinson @ 12/19/2000 03:32:00 PM