Holy fuck

Headline: "Fla. Voting Machines Have Recount Flaw."

I'm not even going to read this whole article, because I still can't get over the fact that it's 2004 and stories like this can even exist. Nevermind the fact that four years after arguably the most contested and flawed election in history, our government is allowing companies to develop electronic voting machines with security flaws the size of Texas. Nevermind the fact that these new machines aren't even legally required to produce a paper ballot backup so the vote knows who they actually voted for. Nevermind the fact that half of our society is still so computer illiterate that technology scares them and they'll probably fuck up their vote on an electronic machine anyways. Nevermind the fact that Diebold is run by a diehard Republican who pledged to deliver Ohio to Bush.

Why do these stories even exist? It absolutely boggles my mind that we, as a society, can even allow our voting booths to have such flaws, especially after the last presidential election. How come it's an independent journalist like Bev Harris is digging up the real story on Diebold, and not a high profile journalist from the New York Times or Washington Post? If these papers don't have investigative journalists who can do their fucking jobs, why don't they hire Bev Harris? I mean, honest to fucking god, what's the big deal here? How come nobody's feet are being held to the fire for the mere existence of flaws that could easily be fixed?