BBV LTTE in NYTimes - Including Greg Palast!

[Cassandra]

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/04/opinion/L04VOTE.html
"To the Editor:

Paul Krugman ("Hack the Vote," column, Dec. 2) warns against the danger of computerized voting machines, but the real danger is the new, federally mandated computerization of voter rolls.

As he mentions, the disaster in Florida in 2000 was the wrongful disenfranchisement of voters.

Katherine Harris's office, using a computerized database with known faults, misidentified these citizens as felons, then purged them from voter registries.

Last year, with little fanfare and less scrutiny, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, which effectively orders all states to buy the computerized voting machines that Mr. Krugman rightly dreads. Worse, the law requires all states to computerize their voter rolls and purge those lists of suspect voters, à la Florida.

Heaven help us when President Bush and Congress tell us that they are going to "help" us vote.

GREG PALAST
New York, Dec. 2, 2003
The writer, an investigative reporter, is the author of a book about the disenfranchisement of black voters in Florida in the 2000 election."

And all the letters posted are favorable to Krugman's column.

[MoonAndSun]

1. I have never seen so many letters regarding a Krugman column

posted before, and you are right, they are all in agreement with Paul. He really does kick ass!!

May this start the ball rolling towards a paper trail for these voting machines.


Kudos to Bev Harris and all the other DUers who are instrumental in getting this story out there.

[Cassandra]

2. I kept scrolling down...

expecting to see at least one letter accusing Krugman of being a conspiracy nut, but there were none; and I have a feeling that if there had been any, they would have printed at least one.