By Art Levine 11/8/08 12:41 AM
Barack Obama won, there were only isolated election glitches, and all’s right with the world.
That, at least, is one emerging mainstream media view about Election Day. As Associated Press declared, “After all that fuss, the system worked. There was no meltdown, no flurry of lawsuits, no statewide demands for a presidential recount.”
But just because there was no repeat of nightmare scenario like the 2000 Florida recount doesn’t mean that there weren’t systemic problems in the country’s diverse electoral systems.
In Minnesota, problem-plagued ballot scanners threaten an accurate recount in the contest between Sen. Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken, according to Minnesota Independent.
Digital photography allows for undetected key copies
Sat Nov 8, 2008 2:13PM EST
Breaking into a lock without being noticed no longer means having to actually have the key ahead of time in order to make a copy. Computer geniuses at UC San Diego have written a computer program that can copy a key based solely on a photograph of it...
...Voting machine company Diebold
got caught up in just such an embarassing scenario early last year when it put photos of the master keys used for its machine on its website.)...
And finally, MDD has a great post called
California Not Always So Liberal
by Natasha Chart, Sun Nov 09, 2008 at 12:38:26 PM EST
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