I hate to keep baning the Diebold voting machine danger drum, but dammit, it’s important. The Independent has a great story on the direction voting technology is taking in this country, and how dangerous it is to the very idea of one man, one vote. READ IT. A sample:

The vote count was not conducted by state elections officials, but by the private company that sold Georgia the voting machines in the first place, under a strict trade-secrecy contract that made it not only difficult but actually illegal – on pain of stiff criminal penalties – for the state to touch the equipment or examine the proprietary software to ensure the machines worked properly. There was not even a paper trail to follow up.

If that doesn’t scare the bejesus out of you, I don’t know what will.