UPDATE: Just after I posted this, I remembered this little item, which is hardly surprising: "Ohio Voters Accuse Secy Of State And Gubernatorial Candidate Blackwell Of Trying To Rig November's Election..." They are referring to the election in 2006, btw.
Rolling Stone: How confident are you Ohio in 2004 was fairly decided?
Howard Dean: I’m not confident that the election in Ohio was fairly decided. We did our own Democratic party study in Ohio with a panel of experts. We absolutely know that there was a systematic voter suppression. We couldn’t say one way or another if the election was stolen. We couldn’t rule it out, but we couldn’t prove that it was. We know that there was substantial voter suppression, and the machines were not reliable. That’s clear.
RS: What is the Democratic game plan to avoid these problems in 2006?
HD: What are we going to do about it? It’s frustrating because we don’t control the levers of power. This is going to be a very critical election in 2006. We’re very aware that there’s huge potential for additional mischief in 2006. We have no doubt that some of the folks who were active in vote suppression will be active again. It’s very, very difficult to deal with it. We just have to keep pushing forward doing the best we can. The real question is why the mainstream media won’t write about this.
RS: You’ve been sounding the alarm on touch-screen voting machines, particularly Diebold machines. Why?
HD: Touch-screen voting machines absolutely cannot be relied upon. Our recommendation was optiscan ballots — where you actually have custody of the actual ballots after the ballots have been passed through the computer. That’s the most reliable system to use. And people should not use the electronic voting machines. Even electronic voting machines with paper trails can be manipulated."-from the new Rolling Stone interview. Good to see this in the RS and good to hear Howard speaking out. Check it out.
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