The Northwestern gets is right today:
The Final Thought: There’s a looming threat to the integrity of the election process, a threat in the form of all-electronic ballot machines that lack a paper record.
Bloggers cited reports of voting irregularties to further the premise that President Bush stole the election. While bloggers and conspiracy theorists pushed their contentions to fit their theories, investigators had trouble proving them true.
But Walden O’Dell didn’t help matters with his comment in 2003 that he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes for the president.” (O’Dell is chairman and chief executive officer of Diebold, manufacturer of electronic voting machines.) There were reports that voters in 2004 elections, at some electronic booths, said they voted for John Kerry but the final screen asked them to confirm their vote for George Bush.
The issue here is that the lack of a paper record in computerized processes opens the way to potential vote manipulation.This means that we in America may have reached a point where our love affair with new technology has reached a practical limit. Electronic machines have limited usefulness. We are learning that an only-electronic record will never be as reliable as an electronic record proven to be valid by a paper record.
http://www.wisinfo.com/northwestern/news/opinion/stories/opinion_22714833.shtml
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