Nathan

Gindy, God bless you, my one reader. Even my girlfriend won't read the shit I spew out. I appreciate you asking what my position is.

First off, I find it very sad that 1 in 5 Americans find the election results fishy or don't believe in them. Not good for a democracy.

I think the essential solution to this, and it seems so very simple to me, is opening the source code of these vote tallying machines up to public scrutiny. If one does not I feel there are always going to be these issues and they are going to increase. I see no valid reasons for not opening this code to the public, do you? I ask because I am honestly interested- I haven't seen a good reason.

I think about it in this way: Microsoft keeps their source code very secret (though they have opened up a bit recently) and look how many times and by how many people that has been hacked. Our voting systems are in the same predicament -- it has been proven by states such as ours and other independent analysis that these systems are, in fact, terribly suspect.

There are only two companies involved in counting the votes and they are very secretive and don't provide paper trails (as they do on their ATMs)- this is a very important, bipartisan discussion that our nation should have had before and I hope that we have it now. Scott Peterson is done with now so lets move on to some important (though sometimes boring) discussion.