E-Voting Trouble During Today's Elections in Virginia, New York, and Elsewhere

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7. Your wife has my sympathy.

The digitalized society scares me silly.

I have already been close to having things go terribly wrong, medically speaking, on account of erroneous data entered into my patient records. Luckily I was conscious and pretty feisty, but if I have a stroke, and my "chart" shows I take a med I don't, what then?

Election-wise -- Having tried way back in 2004 to have Democratic leadership wake up as to the realities of Black Box voting, and knowing that my then Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey thought the 2004 election was stolen, I felt some relief.

But the top people in the Dem party fail to care. Possibly because in some places in the country, "glitches" are to their advantage? Or because they are in collusion with the Republicans?

I take no comfort in knowing that both Al Gore and John Kerry failed to counter any of the 2000 and 2004 vote problems. In fact, in Kerry's case, he broke a major problem he had made to progressive voters: that he would use an army of lawyers to see to it that any needed recounts were performed.

But Kerry resigned within 24 hours anyway. Only because of Ralph Nader and David Cobb, both of them independents, did money get supplied to voting activists like Andy Stephenson and Susan Truitt, so that the vote recount on John Kerry's behalf in Ohio could proceed.