Cast Your Ballot Against Electronic Voting
My Op-Ed at AOL News: 'Cast Your Ballot Against Electronic Voting'
By Brad Friedman on 11/1/2010 2:46pmLate last week, AOL News asked me to contribute an op-ed for their Election Eve coverage. That op-ed, which they've headlined "Cast Your Ballot Against Electronic Voting", is now posted here...
The upshot of its argument: If Republicans are set to take over the U.S. House, as predicted, and if they've suddenly found religion in regard to the dangers of electronic voting, as they seem to be asserting in North Carolina, in Nevada and in Texas, then it'll soon be their turn to take legislative action to once and for all ban the horrific, anti-democratic (small "d"), 100% unverifiable Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting systems plaguing our nation before they are again used to pervert results of the 2012 Presidential Election --- just as they have every year since they've been introduced into our electoral system (by a majority Republican Congress, by the way, in 2002.)
Please check it out and leave some nice (or not so nice) comments there, as you see fit. Lot's of disinformed bumpkins seem to currently be weighing in. Please free to straighten them out. Politely.
Other pieces
I've contributed elsewhere of late, in advance of tomorrow's
election:
• For Salon: "The Faith-Based Vote"
• For
Truthout: "Hacking Harry Reid (or, Sharron's
Angle)"
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