We got those touchscreen machines all over the country after the 2000 election made a national spectacle of the problems with punch card voting machines, but Massachusetts had its statewide spectacle of the same thing four years earlier, … [Read more...]
Scientists in Congress
Vern Ehlers (R-MI), first elected in 1993Ph.D. in nuclear physics from UC Berkeley; former chair of the Physics Department at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI.Rush Holt (D-NJ), first elected in 1998Ph.D in physics from NYU; assistant … [Read more...]
Controversy over Election Reform Bill
My Post on Daily Kos and MyDD This is the full text of my post as it appears there. Some of the comments on the daily kos post are worth reading, and I also have a poll up there, so do visit the link, read the comments, and vote in the … [Read more...]