Posted 2:51 PM

I'm NOT alone!

Simson Garfinkle has uncovered at least one well-respected computer professional who is willing to go campaigning for computerized voting. Ted Selker, formerly with IBM Research, currently is a professor at the MIT Media Lab, and a member of several panels and commissions that looked at the issue of voting following the debacle of the 2000 presidential election. AS he says, the problem is that "The geeks are focusing on the abilities of hackers to steal elections by reprogramming DREs [“direct recording electronic" terminals] because electronic attacks are what these folks understand." They overlook the many areas in which the DRE is far superior to any other method of voting. Finally, the voice of reason!