Bill Roper's Journal

Well, I'm of the computer error opinion, but there is the nagging thing about the chairman of Diebold stated he would do whatever it took to win Ohio for Bush when he was Bush's Ohio campaign chairman (he resigned as chair after it was pointed out there might be a conflict of interest).

The way to do it with computers is to have the computer not record the votes, but rather to print out a ticket which the voter can then sight verify and drop into a box. Those tickets are theen counted (perhaps manually, more likely using a scan-tron type of software).

The sensible people can get together all they want, but it is the ideologues who are going to drive whatever happens.