If ballots are good enough for Iraq…

Glenn McGahee
dania beach
Posted December 19 2005


It is now official. A couple of days ago, in Leon County, which includes Tallahassee, our state capital, the supervisor of elections watched as votes on its electronic voting machine were easily manipulated with no record of the votes being changed.

This was on a computerized voting machine that has been used all over the United States, including Ohio, where our last presidential election was decided. Many states in the country have now spent millions of dollars on these same machines assuring the voters that their votes are being tabulated accurately. "Take our word for it," is all that we voters have been offered.

Now the supervisor of elections in Leon County says that he will never use this type of voting machine again. They are currently being purchased in almost every state. California's election supervisor is trying to get them, and more are being bought for Ohio.

I watched last week as our federal government praised the voting in Iraq as democracy in action.


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/letters/sfl-brmail749dec19,0,7948596.story?coll=sfla-news-letters

I am demanding the same democracy here in America using paper ballots and an ink-stained finger.