Monday, January 15, 2007

Voice of a Fellow American

by Stephen Heller

Diebold cannot be trusted to run elections in America. They have shown they can’t be trusted. Americans must NEVER again allow a private corporation to run their elections in secret, using secret machines and secret software. The only thing that should be secret about our elections is the ballot.

Americans must insist Congress enact Federal legislation requiring that all voting machines have a voter verifiable paper ballot, be run on open source software code, be subject to inspection by independent computer experts, and that each election have a random sample ballot recount. America must stop behaving like a banana republic. Only then will we have a chance of restoring true integrity to American elections.