Long a subject of interest on this Blog, Paul Krugman
notes that Diebold is doing a shoddy job of providing reliable, verifiable voting in electronic voting machines.
In addition to being operated by a partisan board.
Why should the reliability of our Democracy take second priorty to Diebold's desire to protect trade secrets, that is, why should we permit them to not show anyone their software? The answer is, we should not. We wouldn't ask people to hand their ballots to a single counter who would then tell us what the answer was, and not permit those ballots to be recounted or verified. And we should not let that happen just because that single counter is a computer.
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