Voting machines: Give us paper trails...and I mean NOW!

Read this and be gobsmacked. Nearly six years after the Florida Fiasco of 2000 that threw a Presidential election to the Supreme Court to decide (for only the second time in this nation's history), and less than two years after the CEO of the country's leading voting-machine maker was caught promising in writing to "deliver" Ohio's votes to this selfsame rascal, we still do not have verifiably safe and honest elections in this country. (Fergossakes, Iraq has more transparency and integrity in its elections than we do in ours at this point!) If, as this columnist writes, the reason legislation to remedy this has stalled in Congress is not partisan opposition, and at least some GOPers want the system fixed every bit as much as the Dems do, then what in the name of Gordon Moore is the holdup? Could it be that Diebold and the other makers of current election tech are lobbying against it to keep from having to spend more bucks on retooling? Maybe even a little quid pro quo in the form of campaign cash or under-the-table perks? C'mon, Speaker Hastert, what's your excuse?

"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." -- Josef Stalin