Columbus Dispatch endorses untested hackable computer voting machines: Bob Fitrakis

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http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2007/1605


September 17, 2007

The notoriously pro-Republican Columbus Dispatch is on another of its bizarre crusades. They're out to make Ohio safe for easily hacked and illegally manipulated computer voting machines. Using the disgusting tactics pioneered by the tobacco, nuclear and Big Oil companies, the Dispatch has endorsed a position where compromised vendors who work for the secretive voting machine manufacturers are unbiased and independent academics who come to informed, factually-based opinions, are biased.

In the Dispatch's editorial fantasy land, the "...busy election went ahead without significant problems, and there was no evidence that the results were tainted." Apparently, Dispatch reporters and editors aren't allowed to read other Ohio newspapers or, for that matter, their own website.

On August 7 of this year, Dispatch reporter Mark Niquette wrote: "Voting machines used in more than half of Ohio's counties were determined to be vulnerable to tampering in studies completed in California and Florida, reports show."