Steal This Vote: Andrew Gumbel on Controvery over E-Voting Machines

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Steal This Vote: Andrew Gumbel on the Growing Controversy Over Electronic Voting Machines

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/25/1318243

As the governor of Maryland calls for the state to scrap its electronic voting system and revert to paper ballots, we talk to the Los Angeles-based reporter Andew Gumbel on voting scandals and his book “Steal this Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America” We turn now to look at the continuing controversy surrounding electronic voting machines. Last week, the governor of Maryland called for the state to scrap its electronic voting system and revert to paper ballots for the upcoming November elections. Governor Robert Ehrlich said such a move was needed because of technical glitches that occurred during the state’s primary election earlier this month. In that election, electronic voting machines built by Diebold repeatedly crashed.

* Andrew Gumbel, journalist with the London Independent and the author of “Steal this Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America” His latest article about electronic voting will be published in the Nation magazine next month.