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Wednesday, April 19, 2006


The Washington Post reports on How To Steal An Election:
It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine, says University of Pennsylvania visiting professor Steve Freeman. That's because Vegas slots are better monitored and regulated than America's voting machines, Freeman writes in a book out in July that argues, among other things, that [W] may owe his 2004 win to an unfair vote count. We'll wait to read his book before making a judgment about that. But Freeman has assembled comparisons that suggest Americans protect their vices more than they guard their rights, according to data he presented at an October meeting of the American Statistical Association in Philadelphia.
The short article has a table comparing the regulation of Las Vegas slot machines to that of electronic voting machines. It's unfathomable to me that this is allowed to happen...
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