Jan 4 Roll Call Editorial!

[hootinholler]

Anyone seen this editorial? I was looking for a list of congress members and the headline grabbed me.

I don't subscribe yet, so I can't see all of the article. I like the hook:

Vote As You Bank

January 4, 2005

Every day, tens of millions of people use ATMs in utter confidence that their bank transactions will be accurately recorded. And as Bank of America brags in its television ads, it processes 10 billion checks annually with an error rate close to zero. This year, and the sooner the better, Congress ought to make America’s voting system work like that.


-Hoot

[mdb]

1. There's a big problem with that.

Democrats introduce bills but the Republicans won't even put them on the table to even hear them. So it never even has a chance to go for a vote. Repubs don't want fair elections. They don't want paper trails and open source software on voting machines.

We all need to work on this. Maybe the media or getting the word out about this with the Repubs doing this kind of stuff can help.

[hootinholler]

2. I really don't see a big problem with

Roll Call, a paper that is read by almost every staffer on the hill printing this editorial if the rest is like the hook.

I am hoping someone has a subscription and can let me know the jist of it.

-Hoot

[goclark]

3. Sounds simple

but watch how hard the Bushcrooks make this not happen.

We will never have an honest election because now the Republicans know how to fix the election in every town and every hamlet.

[IndyPriest]

4. We have to get unhooked from machines!

Paper ballots and pens!