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Making Democracy Credible

<< I like the title of this... is gives the topic the proper significance... nice to know that with Feinstein now in charge of the committee on elections, this is going to looked into >>

Published: February 9, 2007
Time is growing short to head off more embarrassing voting machine scandals. The presidential election looms, yet nearly half of the states offer no reassuring paper trail so voters who use electronic voting machines can check that their ballot choices are accurately recorded.

With a proper sense of urgency, Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, who leads the Senate committee in charge of elections, is asking all of the right questions about voting technology. This week, she ordered an investigation of the case of as many as 18,000 electronic votes that turned up missing in a tight Congressional race in Florida last November.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/09/opinion/09fri1.html?th&emc=th