Is it Enough?

Posted on December 7, 2004 in Accountability

One can never be sure about the Democratic Party. I received an email from Terry McAuliffe asking for money to help them see that the Ohio vote receives a “thorough investigation”. The issues that they deem “legitimate questions” include:

• Why did so many people have to wait in line in certain Ohio precincts
  and not others?
• Why weren’t there enough machines in some counties and not others?
• Why were so many Ohioans forced to cast provisional ballots?

Do you see what I am seeing? No one is looking into the computer programs used to count the ballots. No one is pressing to have those programs placed in the public domain. The sacred cow of privatization of government functions clops along and no one is going to be making steaks from it soon. It will continue to go where it pleases, eat what it pleases, crap where it pleases for the time being. The Democratic Party has not stepped far enough: it must put our minds to rest about the corruptibility of the electoral process by insisting that outside software experts be allowed to scrutinize the code.