Re:The rich got what they want! (Score 0)

"Does anyone believe that the 2000 election was a legitimate Bush win?"

As I recall, that was all about the poor layout and handling of paper ballots ("butterfly ballots"). Diebold's machines were a reaction to that (over-reaction, IMO).

"...long anti-bush rant..."

Who cares? I know that it's fun to bash Bush, but geez, let's stick to bashing diebold.

Anyways, I disagree entirely that this has anything to do with Bush. In MD, the republicans are mostly a non-factor, and we got our stupid machines just like others. If you want to keep your consipiracies straight, blame this one on the glitzy news media who somehow feels that up-to-the-minute results are vastly more important than a measured and corrupt-free (as much as possible) vote.

For the record, I have no problem with computerized entry machines, but the final output that I turn-in needs to be easily readable paper that is counted by human eyes at some point in the process, IMO. If you want to have a machine also count it to get you your american-idol, this-minute results, then fine, but over the following weeks the official count should be handled by humans.

-Jeff