NYTimes: "This is no way to run a Democracy"

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

FYI. I haven't seen anyone else post this New York Times editorial yet, 
so here it is, currently the fourth most popular article being e-mailed 
from the NYTimes.com website. You must have a free registration to view 
it:

<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/opinion/18SUN1.html>


"Fixing Democracy
The morning after the 2000 election, Americans woke up to a disturbing 
realization: our electoral system was too flawed to say with certainty 
who had won. Three years later, things may actually be worse. If this 
year's presidential election is at all close, there is every reason to 
believe that there will be another national trauma over who the 
rightful winner is, this time compounded by troubling new questions 
about the reliability of electronic voting machines."

The editorial covers touch-screen voting (although only calling for 
paper audit trails), the e-pollbook issue, and redistricting.