Republicans Seem to Want to Keep Computerized Voting Easily Corruptible

by Rob Kall
OpEdNews.Com

Before the age of computers, there were all kinds of ways for a local politico to "mess" with the voting apparatus. He could arrange for a mechanical machine to count wrong. Or, the names of people in cemeteries could be kept or put on the voter rolls.

But now, in the wondrous age of computers and the internet, it's possible, with a virtually undetectable line of software code that can make itself disappear after its done its dirty work, to wreak corruption on hundreds or thousands of computerized voting machines reflecting hundreds of thousands or millions of votes. A number of recent elections are suspected of being tainted by this voting corruption. We've opened a Pandora's box with computerized voting, not knowing what was going to come out.

But it looks like the Republicans like the way things are, in spite of clear proof of a multitude of errors and easily corruptible vote counting. US Congressman Russ Holt introduced a bill earlier in the year that would take many of the risks out of computerized voting, and it would add safeguards to prevent theft of elections or computerized tampering with the voting process.

It seems that any patriotic American who cherishes the central role of an honest voting process in the maintenance of democracy would almost by reflex support a bill that would make voting safer and more honest. Yet since the bill was introduced, not one republican congressman has signed on to the bill.

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